Last week I wrote about Office Accounting Express 2008, Microsoft’s free offering for small business accounting, however if you want to give the industry leader in this category a try take a look at QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2009. The name says it all here.
This offering is designed to get you started (/hooked) using the QuickBooks product. This edition is somewhat limited as, for example, you can only have up to 20 customers and cannot download transactions. On the other hand you can interface with Intuit’s payroll service as well as process credit card orders using this free version. You can view a full comparision chart on their web site.
There is no denying that QuickBooks is the leader in the small business bookkeeping arena and I think it is great they are offering a free “gateway” product. If you like it, once you outgrow the free edition purchasing the pro version will get you all the bells and whistles QuickBooks offers.
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Intuit’s Quicken products are great. I use the home edition, but I’ve been thinking hard about buying the business edition. Free GOOD products work for me!
Bad download of this product – tried twice – downloaded partly and then froze up my computer – tried download again – same problem – obviously a site problem – still trying to undo partial download to fix computer!!
delete last comment re quickbooks – appears problem originated with comodo firewall which didn’t like something in download – removed comodo and download worked fine
I want to use quickbook 2009 so much.