sage accounting software

Cutting your computing costs

I want to help you save money and I am never going to ask you for a dime in return.

Every year I save a lot of euros by not spending any money on software. I discovered there was a better way as a result of being frustrated by Sage Software being out of my range. Amazing - I am easily doing most of my work using software tools that cost nothing. This is not normally included in the business curriculm at colleges. It really annoys me that someone hasn’t shared the knowledge here with small business owners.

To get the fastest benefit from this approach do the following.

* Use ten minutes of your day looking for the free software tools.
* Get Evernote to record your findings (Put aside roughly ten minutes each day to give what you find a test drive).
* In one month from now you should have found a really good list of free tools to help you cut costs and run your business.

Here is a short cut for you, a list of the great software I use everyday to get the job done. If you are about to purchase any of the basic software you need for your business, the chances are you have looked at the software I have listed on the right hand side of the page, on the left you will find their free equivalents.

I will be publishing a long list here in the near future.

Here we go:

Just type the name of the free product to the search engines

One system to manage customers and accounting

salesorder.com pricing: free Sage Software - really expensive and only does Accounting

Creating and writing Documents

Google Docs pricing: $0 Microsoft Office pricing - at least $100

Or

OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org)

Sharing ideas online

Bubbl.us pricing: $0 Mindjet pricing - at least $200

Making videos

Jing pricing: $0 Camtasia Studio pricing - at least $300

Teleseminars

DimDim pricing: $0 AdobeConnect pricing - at least $200/month

My thanks to the Sage Software incident for the inspiration!motivation to blog this and help you out.

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sage accounting software

I have been struggling for along period with my bookkeeping and I wanted to share with you a shortcut that I discovered after a lot of trial and error. People in small businesses tend to prefer doing more important jobs such as getting, listening to and keeping customers in preference to looking after their accounting. All organisations have to pay special attention to their accounting if they want to avoid problems.

When I first started out my bookkeeper suggested or should I say insisted that I used a small business accounting software package supplied by an outfit called Sage Software. Without even getting familiar with software I simply went ahead and bought the lowest cost package I could find. On reflection I am glad I didn’t burn too much money on this as this package is arguably the most badly designed and most complex software I have ever used. To be frank whenever I find the word accounting together with the word software I am always reminded of the first lesson I must share with you and that is most small business accounting software assumes the user possesses good practical knowledge of bookkeeping.

Like me I know this just isn’t the case for most small business managers and this inspired me to put aside time that I couldn’t spare to search for a solution to make my work simpler. It was really worth doing this as I found a better solution than I could ever of dreamed of named salesorder.com.

Definitely the best software I have discovered, salesorder.com works on the web and is thoughfully designed and of course lets me do my job anywhere I can access the net. Better still and the third piece of wisdom I want to share with you is that the people who work at salesorder.com are not just very knowledgeable of their application but they know a significant amount about the problems of managing a small business and have taught me the accounting I need to know.

sage accounting software

I have been frustrated for sometime with my bookkeeping and I wanted to share with you a shortcut that I discovered after a lot of trial and error. People in small businesses tend to prefer doing more important jobs like getting, understanding and keeping customers as opposed to looking after their accounting. Bookkeeping is a ‘chore’ that many people look forward to doing but must be done on a consistent basis to avoid issues.

When I initially began my accountant suggested or should I say insisted that I used a small business accounting software package sold by an outfit called Sage Software. Without even evaluating software I simply went ahead and bought the lowest cost system I could find. On reflection I am grateful I didn’t waste too much cash on this as this package is possibly the most unusable and most complex application I have ever had the misfortune to use. To be straight with you whenever I find the word accounting attached to the word software I am immediately reminded of the first wisdom I need to share with you and that is the majority of small business accounting software makes the assumption you have a good working knowledge of accounting.

I had to find a solution that worked for me so reluctantly I found space in my diary and allocated quality time to find an answer. It was really worth doing this as I found a more fitting solution than I could ever of dreamed of named salesorder.com.

This is possibly the simplest system I have ever used and what’s more it is internet based and therefore I can use it from anywhere I want to work. And here is the best bit I want to share with you, the team at salesorder.com know their stuff, just like their software they are a joy to work with and better still are happy to spend substantial time with their customers (even the free ones) helping folks like me to understand and address real problems in my business and to top it off they have tutored me in the accounting I need to know.