Quasar Linux accounting software is perfect for your small business
Source: News Forge
Linux Canada announced the release of Quasar 1.1 accounting and point-of-sale software. The company is offering the base package as a free download, and the install is smooth as the cursor trail on a fancy optical trackball mouse.
An easy install is worth a lot to me. I get tired of the dependency backtrack game sometimes. My /home directory keeps getting littered with obscure tarballs like "giblib" and "imlib2" and well, it's just a pain. The Quasar RPM went in with one click, and even installed a shortcut in the start menu under "Office."
The program had immediate possibilities for my family, which always seems to have at least one small business operating and sometimes several at a time. Quasar has a serviceable GUI and intuitive menu options. It is perfect for small business owners because it doesn't require the user to have a deep understanding of ledger-based accounting. Just enter your inventory items, tweak the accounts, enter everyone in your Rolodex and mark their function (vendor, customer, salesperson, employee).
When it's time to create a customer quote, pull up the screen, click in each form box to activate drop-down menus that list all your accounts, inventory, customers, and salespeople, depending on which part of the quote you're in.
Quasar also connects every transaction, so that, for example, after you create a quote and save it, you can tell the program to make an invoice from it and register it in the ledger.
