GnuCash Documentation Project

This page is the home of the Gnucash Documentation Project, our goal is to maintain a community of people working towards creation of high quality documentation for GnuCash.

Everything you need concerning GnuCash documentation should be here, if you notice something missing, email gnucash-devel and we will add it.

GnuCash v1.9 (current unstable)

A nightly build of the current unstable-branch Concepts Guide is available.

A nightly build of the current unstable-branch Help is also available.

GnuCash v1.8 (current stable release)

If you have a question about how to use GnuCash, you are in the right place. The first thing you should do is read the Help Manual and the Concepts Guide, most of your questions can probably be answered by these documents.

The Help Manual is designed to be a quick reference of how to accomplish specific tasks and how to use the features in GnuCash. The Concepts Guide is designed to be an in depth guide to the concepts behind using GnuCash with a tutorial to show how to put those concepts into practice.

Help Manual
Concepts Guide
- English (HTML)
- English (PDF)

Please send an email to the gnucash-user mailing list if you cannot find a satisfactory answer to your question within either the Help Manual or the Concepts Guide. We want feedback from you, it is only through your comments that we know how to modify the documentation.

Additionally, you can talk to someone via IRC at irc.gnome.org channel "#gnucash" about your question. Another resource is the English or Deutsch GnuCash wikis. A wiki is an interactive website where registered users can ask and answer questions.

Some people have written HOWTO guides or tutorials. Note: the information presented in these sources may or may not be updated to the most recent version of GnuCash. If you are interested in doing development work on these documents, you should contact the original authors.

Older GnuCash Documentation

This section contains all the older GnuCash documentation. If you are using one of these old versions of GnuCash, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest stable version.

GnuCash v1.6: English | Deutsch | Espagnol | Português

Documentation Development

Interesting Links

The following links are for further sites that can help with the documentation and review process.

For both reviewers and documentation writers

Please read the following guides. The new docs are based on the GNOME2 XML docbook system. Everyone wishing to help please follow these guides where possible when reviewing and/or writing docs.

We suggest also subscribing to gnucash-devel.

Reviewers

Please check out the documentation module from the GnuCash svn - gnucash-docs. For those not familiar with svn, the GnuCash wiki has a description. The only change to get the docs is to change the checkout gnucash to checkout gnucash-docs. You can also start from the current docs tarball.

The best way of retaining comments about docs in an easy to find way for everyone would be to use bugzilla.gnome.org to file the bugs under documentation. This can also be done using bug-buddy.

Writers

Also checkout the docs svn as above. The usual procedure for contributors to GnuCash is to initially submit patches to the gnucash-devel mailing list. We will handle getting the patches added into svn until you are given an account. You can also add the patch to a bug report in bugzilla if you wish.

Please let other writers know which section you wish to tackle. Please forward this to gnucash-devel so that people can say 'hey I'm doing that already' or 'go ahead and do it'.

You may also want to retain a local copy of the old documentation to refer to when writing. This still has a lot of useful information in it which hasn't been transferred to the new docs