Asking here instead of a more nerdy community as MYOB is pretty much only used in Australia by the looks.

We’ve run MYOB for the better part of 20 years and it suits our needs perfectly, with one exception - it doesn’t support Linux, and with Windows getting more obnoxious every update I would prefer to swap to Linux full time.

Has anyone locally either got it working properly under Linux (using a VM maybe, like VB headless?), or found an alternative that does work under Linux?

Don’t really want something web based like Xero (not to mention Xero is missing way too many features we use a lot anyway) though being AccountRight we’re hosting the data file remotely anyway.

    • abhibeckert@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think the ATO has such a list. They do maintain a list of payroll software but it’s ridiculously long (MYOB alone has dozens of entries) and I suspect it’s not a complete either.

      https://softwaredevelopers.ato.gov.au/product-register

      They don’t list wether any of it runs on linux, or which ones even work at all… and in particular if you have employees then you need to be careful as calculating the wrong amount of pay (or superannuation) could be classified as wage theft, and you can go to jail for that.

      If you’re just doing your own tax, then it’s a lot easier and the penalty for an honest mistake is reasonable (often no penalty at all…). You could just do it all on paper without any issues, or an openoffice spreadsheet, or free/open source software like ledger-cli.org.