Starting a new business is a challenge in itself, especially when the economy is as unstable as it is at the moment but that's where I am and I'm pretty excited about being able to work in areas of tech that I love.
What I don't love is having to keep record of my income and outgoings better known as accounting.
In the past I have used Microsoft Money and Quickbooks which are client based applications, by client I mean that they are software applications that you have to install on your PC to use it.
These days internet bandwidth availability is making it much easier to have applications siting on a central server in an ISPs datacenter. Making these applications web based and non-reliant on client installed software.
I put a tweet out on Twitter a couple of days ago asking for online accounting solutions and I was very pleased to get some responses and I will list them here and I will be doing a review on each of them. The review will be focused on my requirements for my business which is based in Switzerland but as I am not an accountant some details may be left out. My girlfriend who IS an accountant will also be looking at these applications with me.
The online accounting applications I will be looking at will be:
Xero
Clarity Accounting
Freshbooks
Liquid Accounts
Kashflow
LessAccounting
Free Agent Central
Another reason for looking at online solutions is that I need an cross platform solution as I will be using both Macs and PCs to access the systems. Saying that, I have also been told that there are some installed applications for the Mac such as Cha-Ching and iBank thanks to Victor Cajiao for suggesting these and thanks to Don McAllister, Dobes Vandermeer and Ralph Bassfeld for their suggestions too.
I'll be posting reviews of each of the products over the coming days.
Update: LessAccounting has been added to the review list, thanks to Steven Bristol for bringing it to my attention.
Update 2: I have added Free Agent Central to the list. Thanks to Paul Stone for the pointer.
