I would advise against anything free in this sector.<p>In fact.<p>We had Quickbooks, it was great, it was Windows only, it was one system only unless we paid an absolute fortune to upgrade to a network version (which was windows only, which wasn't workable due to our IT policy which allowed people to use non-Windows OSes).<p>We don't use Quickbooks anymore, nor do we recommend it. I would say we'd quite happily pay for a web service providing we can get the data out in a format we can use...
I know it's not a WebApp (at least last time I checked), but I'd recommend you go with the same product almost every small company in the world uses - Quickbooks. Everything else is just a niche player. Quickbooks will take you all the way to just before 500 employees and going public (Speaking from experience. ) Your financial software should be something you don't even think about. Quickbooks captures that model -plus, every accountant/bookkeeper in the world knows how to use it.<p>If you are dead set on having a webapp, and are planning on growing, the elements that people are looking for, books that are SOX clean, online expense and Purchase Requests, can be found in products like Netsuite.<p>Our company went the QuickBooks->Netsuite->OracleFinancials route. And, no matter _how many times_ I go through that routine, OracleFinancials _always_ ends up being a pain to deploy - no matter how much we pay the consultants to make it "smooth, pain free."
I've looked at less accounting and played with there free trial. It was kind of mediocre. Most of these posted are invoicing solutions. Here are the other I've looked into:<p><a href="http://liteaccounting.com/" rel="nofollow">http://liteaccounting.com/</a><p><a href="http://gobootstrap.com/" rel="nofollow">http://gobootstrap.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.netbooks.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.netbooks.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.freeagentcentral.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freeagentcentral.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.clarityaccounting.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.clarityaccounting.com/</a><p>From here:
<a href="http://mashable.com/2008/09/21/270-online-business-tools/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2008/09/21/270-online-business-tools/</a>
Will plug my UK-based app:<p><a href="http://www.pipelineworks.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.pipelineworks.com</a><p>Although it's more tailored to time tracking and invoice generation, we are writing hooks into some accounting packages...
<a href="http://www.simpleinvoices.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.simpleinvoices.org</a> for your free/open-source web-based invoicing needs, soon there will be an accounting extension avilable for it<p>Cheers<p>Justin Kelly
- <a href="http://www.simpleinvoices.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.simpleinvoices.org</a>
My startup: <a href="http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/exponent/enterprise.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/exponent/enterprise.ht...</a><p>Does your books, does your payroll, does your taxes.
I haven't tried it personally but this is worth looking into atleast based on the advertised feature set,<p><a href="http://invoice.zoho.com/" rel="nofollow">http://invoice.zoho.com/</a>