Quickbooks (QB) is a popular, robust and easy-to-use accounting software package that runs on Windows operating systems. FrontAccounting (FA) is open web-based accounting software that has a comparable feature set to QB with an international flavor. While the vast majority of small business QB users have no reason to migrate away, QB proprietary nature and single machine architecture can drive IT administrators to migrate to a client / server based architecture.
The good news is that is not at all that difficult to migrate the QB database to other accounting software. In this gist, I show how to migrate the Quickbooks customer list, vendor list, and entire G/L journal and optionally the item list