If it was easy, it would have already been done. I knew exporting from QuickBooks to GnuCash wouldn't be easy. For example, I can export the structure of the Chart Of Accounts, but there is no journal data describing any transactions between the accounts. IIF export allows exporting only the structure and supporting data, but no transactions or real accounting data. I've done a bit of research, both reading the web pages you provided (thanks) and analyzing the IIF files I exported. I have no interest in exporting to a data file that QuickBooks can read. If GnuCash wants to tap a huge market, and especially if GnuCash is interested in a successful commercial version, importing data from QuickBooks is essential, and similar data import from Peach Tree, etc. I'd gladly pay US$100 for an easy to install GnuCash that allows me to escape from the QB nightmare. I'd even be willing to lose payroll data, and even my customer data, but I can't re-enter all the accounting transactions from the last six years. As long as I can get my chart of accounts data into GnuCash, I'd be very happy. I don't care whether GnuCash imports the native QB data file, the compressed QB data backup file, or their exported IIF file. There is a commercial Linux accounting application, but I don't care for it nearly as much as GnuCash, and I don't want to convert my accounting data from the popular QB proprietary format to an obscure Linux proprietary format because I'd never escape from there. I've been desperate for some way to export the data I have in QB into a native Linux accounting program. The user interface is all messed up and I'm forced to use hot keys because the buttons are usually overwritten. The data is secure, but it runs like a dog. I currently use an old version of QuickBooks, running under Linux using CrossOver (commercial version of Wine). I honestly believe that the lack of an escape path from QuckBooks is the largest single item keeping small businesses from adopting Linux. If all users of small business accounting had been polled, the huge numbers of people who hate QuickBooks and use it because they are trapped there by the proprietary QB data would have been overwhelming. This was a survey of existing GnuCash users. Then I realized that the survey was very skewed. I saw the recent survey results, and was initially surprised to see the relatively low numbers of people wanting QB import. I know this must be a common request, but I can't imagine anything more important to most small business accounting users.
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