Pros: It is probably the most commonly used bookkeeping system for small businesses. Would you still maybe recommend Quick books? I wouldn't mind if there was mobile support or cool hip techy stuff too- whatever that may be.īigDeal's suggestion, QuickBooks, has some pros and cons. I tried Mint one time several years ago but the extra security questions most banks layer in now made third party access a pain. It would be cool to move to something that could be used to track debt and other assets as well as simple cash flow. So now I can use whatever I want and am just looking to get something that I can keep- one day I'll have more money and investments to track and my wife does own 2 small businesses as well.
I think it was quicken because they wanted us to use it to track the one account we have to have where we deposit customer payments- and they just didn't turn off our ability to use it for other accounts (although no web/background updating was allowed.)
HRK- Long story and I am fine with it and the why behind it- data security, cost controls, whatnot- but NO other accounting platform will be made available through the company or be available for use on their system (as it is, most of us lease their equipment cheaply in exchange for them letting us do some personal stuff and their tech support.)
