Your PCMD
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+1 for this as I do the same.
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JohnKennex
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Quickbooks for accounting. Moneris for payments (not good, not my call - I'll be switching to square or something like it).
Fred Claus
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WaveApps.com It's free except when you want to charge a credit card. It can do just about anything Quickbooks can do, with the exception of reports. There are I think 12 reports on Wave and something like 30 on Quickbooks. A small business won't need anything more than the reports that Wave offers though.
I like the look and idea of Wave but I'm not sure I want to put my financials someplace free. Still - My needs are modest and was just about to switch from QB Online to desktop. Hmm.....
QuickBooks Online has raised their prices again (starting in October). Their Simple Start (lowest package) will now be $25/month. This is way more than I want to pay and my goal is to move into something else at the turn of the year. For something that started out as $10/month just a few years ago it seems Intuit has lost sight of things. They have an even lower package (Self Employed) but it's not compatible with Simple Start and everything must be re-entered by hand. If I'm going to do that I'll be looking at something else including Wave.
Your PCMD
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Manager is great IF you only have one location, one business machine and are stationary (not mobile). Otherwise, its not worth the time. I started out using it, writing invoices out for on location, coming back to the shop and re-doing them in Manager. That got old real quick.
Granted, you can use the cloud based one, but at $39/mo USD, its cheaper to use Quickbooks Online - and thats what I use and have been using for years now. I have the Essentials. I was going to upgrade so I could get recurring invoices, but the cost difference is so not worth it. So I use my Square for recurring because its free - minus the CC fee, which I'm happy with.
For someone starting out or someone looking for something different and cost effective, then I recommend Square for your CC processing - free reader or pay $32 on Amazon for the chip reader or the Square kit if you have an iPad (I have the kit) and then just use the self hosted InvoicePlane, also free. Granted there is a small investment of getting the Square kit at $155, but after that, with InvoicePlane, there is no monthly payments. And since if you use your websites hosting provider, you can access InvoicePlane from and machine, any device, from anywhere.
We use their self hosted version, it is $390 for the first year and $97/year beyond that.
Considering this is an IT forum, I would assume the majority of us are capable of running an exe and either forwarding ports or using a VPN to your office for access.
I have 4 businesses (1 umbrella company) that operate in 2 different states and this handles it without issue. They do have a rapid development cycle so things may have been different when you tried it, but for people with one machine and one location, it’s free to use forever.
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I've used Wave for 6 years now. I don't see any reason to switch to Quickbooks and have to pay for it. Unless you use a CPA that is dead set on quickbooks I'd say you don't need it.
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Quickbooks Desktop and CollSoft for payroll
GTP
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Hi @Confused2222
Your profile states "Soon to be or want to be a technician"
Are you in the right place?
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I’m just starting out, but I’ve been using wave for my accounting and Invoice Ninja self hosted for invoices.
