Company Accounts Software?

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Could anyone recommend any mac software to keep basic business accounts? currently do everything manually on a spreadsheet but software that could store income verses outgoings, draw up the odd report and maybe even generate invoices would be great :) (the invoice thing is optional i quite like using my Pages template...)

Any ideas?

edit: just downloading a trial for something called FirstEdge by MYOB, seems to get decent feedback... any advice on this or other software recommendations still more than welcome :)
 
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yeah i had seen that site as part of my googling :) - i'm after some recommendations really as there is a lot of pap out there (FirstEdge seems crap btw)

Quickbooks Simple Start looks perfect but the buggers have only released a mac version for the US market :mad:
 
I remember a pretty good gtk app that I used on Linux back in the day, which should probably compile and run on os x. They may even provide binaries. I don't remember the name offhand... I'll get back to you when it comes to me.
 
I've run through a fair few trial packages today and there is an outright winner in my mind...

wait for iiiiit...

Billings 3 :)

http://www.billingsapp.com/

luvly interface, nicely customisable, easy to use, top dog ;)
 
hmm... Sage isn't for mac and MYOB seems a right mess in terms of usability...

Billings was nearly there but after further use it doesn't accommodate expenses, its all about invoices really, if you say bought a new computer for your company there is no real way to enter this which is a real shame... also it can't handle invoices in different currencies :(

I am in disbelief how hard it is to find a decent simple accounts package, just a nice simple cocoa one that doesn't cost the earth!

• work done (possibly combined with a todo list) -> generate invoice (accommodating other currencies if need be)

• expenses - what you bought, where from, how much

• generate reports based on all the above info

why is there no app that does this its infuriating! if only we had the time and expertise to make it we would create it ourselves but alas we are mere web designers and developers...
 
ok, well i've given up, after a few infuriating days of searching (not constantly obviously :p) there just isn't anything worth having that a) does what i want and b) in a nice way

so i'm gonna stick with my spreadsheets but thinking of spending the money on office 2008 - i can't say i've ever really got on with numbers seems too watered down maybe? kindof don't want to put office on my mac but i'm guessing its a pretty powerful app in comparison?
 
I don't really know much about accounting but you might want to have a look at bento and it's expensive but fuller featured big brother filemaker. Pretty sure you can do accounting in filemaker, not sure about bento though. Worth a look though, there are trials on both.
 
I have been using Quickbooks (for Windows) for many years, and it was one of the reasons I bought Parallels (and VM Fusion) so I could continue to do so on my macbook. I also have Tax software which is Windows based only.

Billings 3 is a nice program, but it is rerally only useful for invoicing.

I use MYOB a few years ago (before it was taken over) as I had a client who was Mac only - not bothered with it since.
 
for what i need filemaker pro would be like buying a ferrari just to nip to the shops... and i just dont wanna go back to that dated looking windows software (sage and quickbooks) - i'm sure they're powerful but as strange as it sounds i need an app to be aesthetically nice to look at and use or i wouldn't go on it as much as i should and my accounts would get out of hand :p

can't believe really that there is no good simple cocoa app, never mind numbers 09 will be fine for now :)
 
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