[jen_h]

I've used GnuCash for 13 years now, for personal finances and two companies, and love it to death. There's something really satisfying when you see everything balance!

The only issues I've had over all these years have been banks/credit cards that have weird idiosyncrasies in their file formats (lookin' at you, AmEx) that require you to remove the trailing white space (bad memory, I have a text file that reminds me what to do every time) or whatever and getting stock updates (gnc-fq-update) working again after upgrade.

It's also really accessible. While slow and a little annoying, I can do almost everything with a keyboard instead of the mouse (unlike so much online tax software, which is a carpal tunnel specialist's dream).

[solarengineer]

“tailing white space” - I wonder if a trim () on that input field would help.

[jen_h]

I found my caveats file! It was actually an errant newline at the end of each file. Gnucash should've known enough to strip it. And the other thing was a file that used `--` for deposits, so I have a note to 's/--//g' those files.

I think that's the kind of thing that some of us see as a neat challenge to figure out and overcome; but for others, it becomes a barrier for entry. I still evangelize the heck out of Gnucash, though. It's so powerful...and not Intuit.