DOME monthly bookkeeping record #612
Buy low, sell high.
Patriotsoftware.com is one I often hear advertised
DOME monthly bookkeeping record #612
Not a service. Free accounting software. https://www.gnucash.org/
What are you using it for? Personal? Business?
Quick books is overkill for personal stuff—but having it for small business was a time and tax saver.
For personal stuff, I just use Excel. I download my bank stuff in it and just maintain it like a general ledger from AC101.
I am contractor and need one that creates invoices from estimates, partial progress or full.
Last time I checked CPA’s only accept Quickbooks data for tax returns. Maybe different now.
Woke avoidance - bump for later....
Wave and Xero are both good and less expensive than QBO.
Most CPAs will accept the annual data in different formats, although QBO is one of the standards.
I like Wave since basic accounting is free.
This is advertised as farm accounting, but it also does small business. You can try it for free, i think.
They used to sell the software, now they rent it, not sure what the annual fees are any more.
I still use an old version they sold me, never upgraded to the new versions. very straight forward and easy to use.
Quickbooks sets the standard for small business software.
Everything else is lesser.
Being a programmer i developed my own sytem using c# over my on sqlserver database...
I have used QB since 2005. Once Microsoft bought up Intuit things really went downhill. Any time I called for support they spent a ton of time trying to get me to switch from my Desktop to their new cloud based monthly fee software.
I stuck with QB Pro 2019 as long as I could but they stopped the online payments due to ‘security’ concerns. So I tried to upgrade to QB 2020 it wouldn’t install - no Win 7 support. So I had to upgrade to Win 8.1.
Now they say I will need to go to Win 11 because Intuit does not support their software on platforms Microsoft does not support.
All of the alternatives I have looked at were cloud based.
I finally decided that I will keep QB 2020 on 8.1 running in my virtual box and if Intuit wants to drop payment processing that will be their loss, there are other options for payment.
A word of advise: If you want to keep your current version of QB Desktop make sure that Auto Updates in Quickbooks is OFF. That’s what bit me - Intuit pushed out an update that killed all versions not running on a Microsoft supported platform.
Don’t know if this will work for you but I have been using it for years. It is primarily an invoicing service but they do offer add ons.
Check it out.
I pay $15 per month. Worth every penny, very simple and reliable.
I am still running QuickBooks Pro 2012!, last year the shipping manager quit and a bunch of other things started freaking out and not printing right. I found answers for printing on internet and fixed them, but shipping still didn’t work.
I looked into buying the new desktop version but realized it was an Annual Subscription now! FU Intuit!!
I downloaded and installed separately the 2021 QuickBooks PRO Desktop Trial Version, and the new files it installed FIXED my 2012 Version and everything works great now. DO NOT UPGRADE
NO SUBSCRIPTION!!!
I am a bookkeeper for a small church and do everything in excel.
I also bookkeep for a construction company and the owner requests that I do it in QuickBooks.
Though I would rather not use QB because they are expensive and all the tech support is overseas.
AccountEdge is serious accounting software for small to medium-sized businesses. They use a subscription model too, but about half the cost of Quickbooks and you keep your own data on your own machine, Mac or PC.
Review:
https://www.merchantmaverick.com/reviews/accountedge-review/
Now as you are complaining about Quickbooks having too many features.. this won’t solve that problem, the software is very complete and has been around just as long as Quickbooks. But, it is rock solid and not assembled out of bailing wire like Quickbooks. (from Quicken long time passing)
The sad fact is that most accounting software now is only available as cloud-based apps leaving your data in some data center halfway around the world.