Best Small Business Accounting Software?

[Arthur]

I regularly look at accounting software.

For your needs, Sage One and Xero are both excellent. Cloud is the way to go.

You can also look at Zoho Books and perhaps Freshbooks.

We can't use any of these, btw. Our group companies are multicurrency (which all above claim to support), but they all have showstopper issues in correctly managing non-home-currency item costs across local currency exchange rate changes.

 

[scud]

Sageone works well . Cloud is great, in that our bookkeeper or accountant can login and do their thing

 

[cupcake]

Wave Apps - works like a dream

+1 for Wave

 

[cupcake]

I use Wave Apps. It works great. Pity I didnt link my business account . And now I'm in need of all those transactions, which wave would have registred automatically.
It's free by the way.

We don't have that functionality on the Wave platforms here is SA.

 

[Nefertiti]

I regularly look at accounting software.

For your needs, Sage One and Xero are both excellent. Cloud is the way to go.

You can also look at Zoho Books and perhaps Freshbooks.

We can't use any of these, btw. Our group companies are multicurrency (which all above claim to support), but they all have showstopper issues in correctly managing non-home-currency item costs across local currency exchange rate changes.

What software do you use if I may ask? We use Xero now and its perfectly fine for us now, we'll run into your problem though in a year or so time.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

What software do you use if I may ask? We use zero now and its perfectly fine for us now, we'll run into your problem though in a year or so time.

What's Zero Now like?

 

[Nefertiti]

What's Zero Now like?

lol, so you can spell

 

[mister]

What's Zero Now like?

Xero problems with it on my side

 

[DK@MyBroadband]

You won't go wrong with Xero!

 

[srdcl]

I don't have a requirement for audited financials. I'm a small business freelancer. For the past few years, I've been using a combo of Waveapps for the accounting side and pulling in bank transactions. And for estimates, invoicing, proposals, project management, multi-user, support tickets for clients, time-tracking, accepting Payfast and PayPal payments - using a self-hosted app called Pancakeapp. Don't judge the app by it's name. LOL
It's a once-off license fee. You install on your web host server. The support is incredible and they are constantly improving it and adding new functionality.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Anyone use Quickbooks? Had to write software to integrate to both Quickbooks and Pastel back in the day.

I grew an intense hate for Pastel's archaic and flaky imports/exports and appreciated that Quickbooks was comparatively dev-friendly. Irrational as it may be: for that reason I would never touch Pastel again in my life or anything associated with Pastel in any way, so Sage is off the table too

+1 for Xero if only because they're Kiwi's