Accounting used to completely perplex me and as a result I had to find a simpler way which I want to give you. People in startups tend to prefer doing more significant activities such as finding, listening to and keeping customers in preference to looking after their accounting. All companies have to pay special attention to their accounting if they want to avoid issues.
I asked my bookkeeper for help and he persuaded me to use Sage Software which turned out to be a small business accounting software package. Without even getting familiar with software I blindly went ahead and purchased the lowest cost version I could find. This was definitely one of the worst mistakes I made as the application turned out to be really hard to comprehend and use. To be frank whenever I find the word accounting together with the word software I am immediately reminded of the first lesson I must share with you and that is just about all small business accounting software makes the assumption the user possesses good working knowledge of bookkeeping.
Just like me small business owners are masters of their craft and the product or service they sell and not accounting but in my situation I was driven to devote time to finding a solution that would work for me. The second piece of advice I want to share with you is my discovery of a really easy to use and free web application called salesorder.com.
This is definitely the simplest software I have ever used and what’s more it is net based and therefore I can use it from anywhere I choose to work. And here is the coolest bit I want to tell you, the team at salesorder.com know their stuff, just like their application they are easy to work with and better still are happy to spend quality time with their customers (even the free ones) helping people like me to understand and address real issues in my business and to top it off they have coached me in the accounting I need to know.
