software for accounts, payroll, and payment gateway

[unwashed potato!]

been recommended to try sage for all of these needs but wondered before buying their software if anyone on here could recommend anything else?

i need something that will sort out my accounts (only a small business now but big plans so needs to be able to grow with us), sort out payroll work, and then finally take payments online for our services/products that we sell.

i'm not expecting all this from one software manufacturer, but my thought was that i might get a better deal getting this all from one place.

i'm with federation of small businesses if that makes any difference to discounts etc

 

[SiriusB]

Every small business I work as server admin for use Sage products for payroll and accounts. Two of the businesses are accountancy firms.

I wont be so bold to say it was the industry standard, but I imagine anyone who works with finances has at least heard of it, if not used it personally.