All About Accounting Software

There are myriad accounting solutions out there for businesses of all sizes, but sometimes the simplest business models just need a straightforward payroll solution—enter Halfpricesoft.com.

Founded in 2003, Halfpricesoft provides user-friendly 1099, W2, and payroll packages for accountants at small- and medium-sized organizations, and their ezPaycheck payroll solution offers a hassle-free program for small business accounting. ezPaycheck caters to small business owners—people with an entrepreneurial spirit who are completely capable but can still use an extra hand when it comes to accounting.

In addition, fledgling businesses sometimes can’t afford to staff an accounts payable department, nor can they support the IT costs sometimes necessary to maintain a multifaceted financial management solution. In cases like these, programs like ezPaycheck are a good choice, as they allow users to print payroll checks, create and maintain payrolls for multiple companies, and automatically calculate withheld taxes. And like the majority of software solutions that are most attractive for small businesses, Halfpricesoft’s products can be easily installed without difficult software configurations.

Halfpricesoft.com recently released the latest version of their main small business accounting solution, ezPaycheck 2010. At the beginning of each year taxes loom, and the current season is surely why ezPaycheck is getting press right now—but rather than just parrot press releases, we at CompareAccounting.com are going to take the opportunity to look at simple accounting and finance solutions for small businesses, and later look at when exactly growing businesses should consider a more complex platform. So be sure to check in next month!

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Intuit Inc. completed its acquisition of Mint.com last November, and is now moving to phase out its Quicken Online software in favor of that purchase.

To tell the story of Quicken Online and Mint.com is to examine the financial management preferences of different age groups. Mint.com began as an online personal finance management platform in 2006, and as such, a large number of its users were in their 20s and 30s. Intuit’s products, meanwhile, were desktop applications used by Baby Boomers and some older Gen-Xers. Like most new web-based applications, Mint was sleek and simple, and appealed to fiscally-responsible young people who didn’t care for the (seemingly) excessive data entry associated with Intuit’s products.

At the time of Mint’s inception, Intuit had easily cornered the personal finance market with Quicken, and two years after Mint.com began, Intuit released Quicken Online to compete. Needless to say, Quicken Online never took off, and Intuit acquired Mint.com last fall. Upon purchasing Mint, Intuit officials said Quicken Online would be phased out—this leads us the present.

Mint.com is going to retain its brand, and Quicken Online software will be combined with Mint’s technology. Quicken Online users will be transitioned to Mint.com, and users will be able to manage personal finances between the internet and their home computers. There have been some questions as to whether or not Quicken users will adapt to Mint.com. It’s always difficult switching from a system with which you’re comfortable, so the change will likely be difficult for some older users. Still, Mint has a sharp offering—and is going to start offering mortgage management soon—and its interface differences don’t preclude its being liked by former Quicken Online devotees.

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Coda Group introduced the newest version of its online accounting software. Coda’s new release allows companies to integrate their software with Salesforce.com. This should prove to be a very useful feature for companies who use Salesforce.com CRM and Coda 2 go.

This new SaaS Accounting solution will be announced in London as the first cloud accounting solution to run on Salesforce.com’s new cloud software. As Saas continues to grow, new innovations are being geared towards SaaS Software and cloud computing is one of them.

The new release of Coda’s Accounting Software provides new features such as accounts payable and accounts receivable functions as well as spreadsheet integration and invoicing. Also, Coda 2go provides companies with much more flexibility as it can handle multiple currencies and multiple companies.

For more information about this exciting release, you can read the full article found here.

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