At a business lunch this afternoon, I got to talking with some of my fellow entrepreneurs about the software they use to manage their books.
Like me, most of them use Quickbooks, but I thought it might be of interest to let you know about some of the others that were mentioned as well.
One of the folks is a small gear manufacturer with a payroll of about 30 people. He and his wife swear by Epicor, but that looks a bit high-end for someone in a one-man, or few-person band. It looks like it’ll do everything in the world – maybe even make your bed in the morning.
More my speed was a product called Cashbook Complete. That looks like it competes directly with Quickbooks. If I wasn’t already pretty well entrenched with QB, I’d take a closer look at Cashbook.
The only other product of note was mentioned by a realtor, who said she uses Owl Software’s Basic Bookkeeping for Realtors. I checked out Owl, and it looks like they’ve got a number of products for the small entrepreneur.
Again – most everyone – about 8 of us – use Quickbooks, but that doesn’t mean that you should just follow our lead. You should probably take a look at the different software out there. Some of the software companies operate on a shareware model, which means that you get to try it before you buy it. I like this model and have saved myself tons of money by going that route.
- Bal
