I have been perplexed for a while with my accounting and I wanted to share with you a shortcut that I uncovered after a lot of trial and error. People in startups tend to prefer doing more key activities such as finding, knowing and keeping customers in preference to looking after their accounting. All businesses have to pay special attention to their accounting if they want to avoid disaster.
When I first started out my accountant suggested or should I say insisted that I used a small business accounting software package made by an outfit called Sage Software. Without even trying out software I simply went ahead and bought the cheapest system I could find. This was definitely one of the worst mistakes I made as the software turned out to be really difficult to get to grips with and use. OK my first piece of advice is that whenever you see the words accounting software go carefully as it definitely means the vendor is making the assumption you understand a substantial amount about accounting.
I had to find a solution that worked for me so reluctantly I swept my schedule and allocated quality time to find an answer. It was really worth doing this as I found a more functional solution than I could ever of dreamed of called salesorder.com.
Arguably the best application I have discovered, salesorder.com works on the web and is thoughfully designed and of course lets me work anywhere I can connect to the net. And here is the coolest bit I want to share with you, the team at salesorder.com know their subject, just like their service they are a pleasure to work with and better still are happy to spend quality time with their users (even the free ones) helping folks like me to solve real problems in my company and to top it off they have shared with me the accounting I need to know.