![]() ![]() Zoho Books : Zoho doesn’t get a lot of attention, but the Indian company provides a robust suite of Web-based apps, including apps for email, online file management, project management, meetings, help desks, remote support, and much more. ![]() With QuickBooks Online out of the running, we decided to test two alternatives: That pushed us more toward the concept of a multi-user system. No thanks.Īs we discussed the options further, we realized-or rather, Tonya gently suggested-that I should take over the regular bookkeeping tasks so she could focus on more complex tasks like managing cash flow and working with our tax accountant. We were also troubled by the idea of working with Intuit, and the company seems to be up to its old tricks, having just announced that it was discontinuing the Mac app that provided direct access to QuickBooks Online without having to use a Web browser. After her online accounting class, Tonya started another one on QuickBooks, since it is so popular, but gave up on it, noting that QuickBooks came off as being too “helpful” in all the wrong places, papering over the debits and credits with interface terms that didn’t always make sense to her. Although the company seemingly sells a $399 desktop version for the Mac, Intuit’s focus is on various cloud versions of QuickBooks Online, with plans starting at $12.50 per month. QuickBooks : The 800-pound gorilla of the small business accounting world is still Intuit’s QuickBooks.However, for $15 per month, we weren’t interested in using an emulated Windows app. The company’s engineers figured out a way to embed the Windows version of AccountEdge in a custom emulation wrapper, and they made that the official migration path for orphaned Mac users. ![]()
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