My wife is looking for an accounting package for her new business. It's a very small business, and she has no accounting experience other than doing all the bills/banking in our household. Do any of you have personal experience with small business accounting packages? Ease-of-use is key and it could be Windows (preferred) or Mac.
So far we were thinking either Peachtree, MYOB, or Quickbooks... but nothing specifically about any one of those jumps out screaming "I'm perfect!"
I *don't think* it needs to sync up with her business' bank account. I suggested Excel ti her as I could easily set up the money-in/money-out calculations, etc. However, she needs to be able to enter whenever one of her students pays a membership and what membership level they purchased.
She downloaded the trial to "Bookkeeper" and is messing around with that right now...
ApogeeLancks In Every Game EverRegistered Userregular
edited June 2010
I've used Quickbooks, it's great for small business retail.
However, if you want to keep things cheap, you could work up expense/revenue/stock sheets with Excel (or even cheaper, Open Office Calc). Would take some elbow grease, though.
I used Quickbooks for two businesses. A single property/two tenant rental company with no employees, and an eight provider 30 employee medical clinic. It handles both just fine, and I had zero accounting knowledge or Quickbooks knowledge when I started. It's pretty easy to figure out.
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It doesn't get more bare bones than something that's a spreadsheet with functions. Excel maybe?
She downloaded the trial to "Bookkeeper" and is messing around with that right now...
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However, if you want to keep things cheap, you could work up expense/revenue/stock sheets with Excel (or even cheaper, Open Office Calc). Would take some elbow grease, though.
Works extremely well.
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