[Leaplist] Small Business Accounting Software?

[Bryan J. Smith]

I still strongly advise outsourcing payroll to push the very serious liabilities
with dealing with it on someone else for peanuts in cost per employee per
pay period.

Longevity, multi-user concurrent access and "I've got everything I could ever
need" (sans legal ones, like Payroll) is a big deal to me.  So I'm still partial
to SQL-Ledger, which isn't difficult to use at all with basic bookkeeping
knowledge -- especially since it works from any web brower on the network
(and can be tunneled over a single port).
  http://www.sql-ledger.com/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=features.html&title=Features  

Setting it up with PostgreSQL is cake, easy to dump/restore to another system,
etc...  I've actually set it up and retired my charts twice now, putting both not
only into a dump file , but also full paper printouts of all double-entries ever
made so any accountant can use/review them.


----- Original Message ----

From: Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com>

Jason Boxman wrote:
> Jesse Rhoads wrote:
>> I think this question has been asked before but it's always worth re-checking the answer.  For a small business, Quickbooks sucks but its stupid-easy.  There has to be a better (cheaper) way.
> 
> Oh, I just got an email that MS is discontinuing their Office Accounting product.  You can scratch that one off the list of accounting products.  I was uncomfortable using a Microsoft product -- for any purpose really -- and I am not surprised to see my unease justified, again.
> 

Oh, I hadn't even heard of some of these[1] before.  I'm looking into the commercial, closed source ones now to see if any can handle payroll.

[1] http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=372

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