Accounting / Invoicing / Expense FREE

[Paul.M]

Dipzy go back to the opening post of Durhamsparks and give him a Thanks (bottom left button btw lol).

Next time I see him I'll buy him a beer or four to go with that pizza i still owe him :rofl:

 

[Dipzy]

Realised straight after editing the post and gave thanks to Durham, thanks for advising too Paul

 

[Paul.M]

Said it in gest mate.

Too many people receive great advice and help from members and don't say thanks for it, lot of members getting sick of it.


Ps just done my first estimate on this program and it looks so much better than sending an email.

 

[Dipzy]

No worries mate.

I've certainly learned a lot from the wonderfully knowledgeable people on this site to go along with my 3 years in college and am now putting it all to practice, slowly.. atm.
I know from my previous career (25 years in print) that a professional image counts for a lot so know this package will help. Do you know if we can add our logo's etc to the estimates etc?

 

[1shortcircuit]

Said it in gest mate.

Too many people receive great advice and help from members and don't say thanks for it, lot of members getting sick of it.


Ps just done my first estimate on this program and it looks so much better than sending an email.

Estimates are great.... providing the customer hits the accept/decline button. Had to invoice myself to see exactly how it works, not sure what I will tell the tax man about the £120,000 I invoiced lmao

 

[Voltimax]

Be cautious, nothing in life is for free.

 

[dagrat]

I've just been looking at this and can't find any catches. The only worry I have is the possibility that this firm may leave it a couple of years and then decide to start charging, after which time users may be dependent on the software.
But maybe that's my suspicious mind!!

 

[Octopus]

I can remember when Sky (the basic package) was free!

Sooner or later you'll get charged or get bombarded with adverts.

 

[DurhamSparky]

i dont mind paying for good software...!! i was paying for the use of sliq £40 a year as new releases kept coming out...!

 

[Octopus]

i dont mind paying for good software...!! i was paying for the use of sliq £40 a year as new releases kept coming out...!

Me neither. I used Intuit Quickbooks for everything and its great. Got the latest version for £133.00 earlier this year, a one off payment.

 

[DurhamSparky]

i was using sage last year and it was good but just so so so complicated!!!

this is user friendly and i was sold when it does, invoicing, purchases, bank reconcile, automated postage of invoices and letters, also the fact i can scan and upload all paperwork to it and tag it to a specific invoice for future use... then i found it was free...!!

 

[StuSpiers]

Been using it for some time now.

I ditched paypal option - too fee heavy

Apart from that I find it great.

 

[baldelectrician]

I use Quicken (not quickbooks) as I bought it years ago and there's no annual fee
It does what I need and prints off a 3 page summary to let me fill my tax return in

don't like the idea of cloud based- too easy for a server to go down and you have lost all your data

quicken backs up to my pc and network hard drive each time I close the program

 

[dagrat]

That's a good point, does anyone know if quick file can be backed up? Sorry not too good with IT!!

 

[DurhamSparky]

yes it can be backed up... they can send you weekly or monthly emails with the backup files...

please read this if you have any questions about quick file....

Quick File Support

they have there own support and development team along with accountants (seen as they are an accountancy firm)

 

[Paul.M]

They back up their own files every 15 mins just like the banks do so you would only lose minimum info if your unlucky enough to input accounts data at the time it goes down.

 

[dagrat]

Thanks durhamsparky and Paul, just downloaded it and will have a play with it.
Its appears to be a far easier system than others ive tried, and can only be an improvement on my usual method of accounting on empty muffin wrappers!!

 

[Snapester]

Have any of you guys used cash-flow? I am trying that quick books at the moment and it looks good.
Basically since ive been trading not really taken doing my books serious but ive just had to go VAT registered and well its time to grow up and look pro instead of getting investigated and throwing a pile of junk at them!
Are most you guys vat registered?

 

[DurhamSparky]

downloaded...????

its web based.. should be no downloads... you mean signed up lol

 

[dagrat]

Haha told I was no good with IT.
Still trying to work out why it's in the " cloud" , I've looked outside but can't see anything!!!!!