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Comparing Top Online Accounting Software Packages
Oct 25th
Accounting and bookkeeping are two important aspects of running any type of business, whether its a small retail store or a large corporation. Any business owner knows that these tasks can become a painful experience and if not managed correctly the tax man may end up knocking on your door.
We recently were advised by our accountant that we should invest in an accounting software tool so we can better track our expenses and project future financial growth of the company. There are many off the shelf accounting software products on the market. If you walk down to Office Works or search online, you will find software packages that could either be affordable or just too expensive. Some are easy to use whilst others are just too complex but to be honest with you, there isn’t a perfect product out there that does exactly what you want. Every user and business has different processes so a one size fits all approach to accounting software cannot be used here, but what I can say is that if you have basic accounting requirements then you may be in luck. What I’ve done is compared and detailed some of these software packages so we could make a suitable decision of which product we should be using and hopefully at the same time we can also help our readers find a solution that meets their needs. We decided that using a SaaS (Software as a Service) online package would be the most cost effective solution since you are not required to pay extra for software upgrades – everything is done online. Here’s our list, it’s not the most comprehensive but it’s a start (keep in mind we compared product versions that had similar benefits and costed roughly the same):
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Zoho Invoicing (premium) |
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| Price | AU$25 per month (includes GST) +11c for each bank transaction over 100 | US$29 | AU$25 per month (min 3 months) 12 months gets 1 month free | US$29.95 per month | US$25 per month | US$20 per month |
| Number of accounts | Unlimited | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Number of users | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | N/A – 1 for each additional account | 3 + US$5 per additional users | Unlimited |
| Contacts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Number of Invoices and expenses | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | 500 | Unlimited |
| Link Bank accounts | Yes – unlimited | 20 reconciled bank statements per month | Yes – beta test | Don’t think so | No | No |
| Support | Yes – unlimited | Yes – unlimited | Email only | Customer Support Mon-Fri / 9am-6pm ET | Yes | Yes – unlimited |
| Backup | Yes – data is safe and backed up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free Trial | Yes – 30 days | Yes – lets you raise a maximum of five new invoices and reconcile 50 bank statement lines. The trial is also limited to a maximum period of 180 days. | Yes – 20 Transactions per month | No – 30 day money back guarantee | Yes – 5 invoices per month, 2 users | Yes – 30 days |
| Mobile access | Not sure | iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile | Not sure | Yes, iphone | Not sure | No |
| Payroll | No | No | 25 employees | No | No | No |
| Other Features | accept credit card payment, invoice workflow status, resend invoices, API support, multi-currency | multi-currency, point of sale hardware + software, items and inventory, connectors, CRM/Activities, time based timesheet, inventory, ebay connector | access online payments, Timesheets, Document Sharing, Support Ticketing | Remove Zoho logo from outgoing emails | UK Based company (not ideal for Australia), timesheet, |
| Number of accounts | Unlimited |
Now based on the above comparison we decided to trial the SaaSu (pro) package.
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Awesome chat tool called nimbuzz
Sep 20th
Today I came across an awesome tool that I should share with you all. The application is called nimbuzz (www.nimbuzz.com )and it allows you to consolidate all your chat services into one. This includes facebook, gtalk, msn, myspace etc etc. The desktop tool also allows you to buy credits (i guess everyone needs to make money) to make VoIP calls to landlines. The advantage of using this application is that you can chat to all your friends on different systems at the same time.
I also tried the Blackberry application and it also allows you to include Skype – however the PC version doesn’t. You should try it out.
Advertise Me will be using the iPhone4
Sep 17th
It’s official, our company will be using the iPhone4 instead of the traditional Blackberry devices. Why? Well, feedback from our staff indicated that the blackberry storm had too many issues:
1. Speed – it was slow to browse websites and do multitasking
2. Missed calls – there were too many occasions whereby we missed important phone calls because the client couldn’t contact us
3. Storage – applications that were installed used up memory
4. Applications – there isn’t too many free and useful applications available e.g mobile banking
So goodbye Blackberry Storm, you’ve served us well over the past two years.
wordpress for blackberry cannot add custom blogs after 1.4.2
Sep 4th
Has anyone noticed that you can no longer add your own custom blog, it just has the wordpress.com or wordpress.org?
Seems to have happened after the upgrade to 1.4.2. Is this a bug or do they just want to lock it down to those two sites?
I feel so frustrated!!!
wordpress for blackberry cant upload images after 1.4.2
Sep 3rd
Is anyone having problems with adding photos, images or videos from their media library after upgrading their blackberry for wordpress to version 1.4.2
advertising blackberry ads on the iphone4
Aug 30th
I found it amusing that the iphone4 app was showing ads for the blackberry and decided to take a photo.
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iphone4 or BlackBerry
Aug 24th
With the launch of the iphone4 in Australia our team has been in a heated debate as to which phone our company should be using and promoting. The majority of us have used the blackberry storm but have been having several issues with it since we initially purchased them almost two years ago. There has been version upgrades which have dramatically fixed some of these major issues but at the same time one of my collegues has complained about missed calls. The problem may be related to memory I.e the more applications you have in the background the more memory it consumed. I’ve noticed that as soon as the memory reaches 4Mb the phone just slows down. You can reboot the phone or use quickpull to fix the issue but during this memory leak you might end missing important phone calls. I don’t know whether this will be the same case as the iphones but one of the main reasons why we went with the blackberry was because of the unlimited data download. There is a disclamer about the fair use policy but I ended up watching a full series of an anime and wasn’t charged at all.
So the iphone4 is very appealing because of the new apps like facetime and the speed. The blackberry is quite slow because of it 600 or so hertz processor.
Now I also use the blackberry as a storage device, just plug the usb cable to any pc and it will be mounted as a drive. Apparently you can’t do that with the iphone.. You need itunes.
In terms of apps, the iphone has too many and the blackberry is very limited. But we don’t play games so unlikely our decision will be based on this factor.
So which one should we go for?
Gmail emails being grouped on the Blackberry
Aug 16th
I just noticed that on my blackberry, gmail emails are being grouped. So what has changed? Does anyone know? I did notice that I have to accept some new T&C’s from Gmail but it would be good to know what features are available. Does it mean that the calendar is being synched as well?
WordPress 1.3 on the Blackberry
Jul 27th
I’m not sure whether other people are having this issue but when I insert an image to the wordpress application on my blackberry the image appears to display upside down. The way I fixed this was to login to wordpress through the browser and edit the image. Is anyone else having this same problem? I’m assuming its related to wordpress 1.3
BlackBerry Storm battery pull consumes 1/5 of battery
May 26th
Just recently I noticed my blackberry storm consuming almost 1/5 of the battery after performing a battery pull or even using the application Quickpull. Is this normal or is my battery going flat?
I’ve had this Blackberry Storm for over a year now and I expected the life of the battery to last longer than this. In any case I purchased two new batteries from eBay for about $4.00 each. I also decided to purchase a Bluetooth keyboard so I can quickly and easily type these posts on my Blackberry Storm.
