Good Billing Software for small firm? 1

[DrThink]

Anybody know of good billing software to keep track of progects and time for a 10 person engineering firm?

We currently use quick books and timesheets. We dont have a good P&L reports and it is very limited.

We are looking into Ajera by Axium and Wind2 Software.
Any suggestions?

Thank you

 

[MissMackenzie]

I use Quickbooks, though the best solution from what I've heard is to work with bookeeping/accounting to develop a custom system.

 

[wes616]

We use SQL Ledger <

http://www.sql-ledger.org>for

our accounting software, and JourneyX <

http://www.journeyx.com>

for timesheets. These are Scalable to Enterprise level software suites (which is great if you plan to grow), and another added benefit is they are free (if you stay small) The 1 down side is they run on a Linux Box only. (but, hell the investment in only $300 for a file server, accounting, and time tracking software.... plus they are very easy to use....



Wes C.

 

[solid7]

What about Quick books Professional Services Edition? I took a look at their demo, and it does handle time cards. Is any one using this software?

We have Quickbooks Professional 2005 ... It works fairly well for engineers ...

Agreeing with both of these posts...

Quickbooks Pro (current edition) is a great choice for small firms. You should stay away from lesser version, because they don't allow the user the ability to customize forms, or record P.O. or project numbers. This is the minimum version to use for a truly "professional" business.

If you are savvy, or have a nerd on staff who is overly eager to please, Quickbooks Pro can be very impressively customized - to the point that you can't tell that it's QB. (not the standard bars and white space forms)

The only bad part is, Quicken is also in business. Some of the features are fee-based, or third party. It can be annoying, or it can be helpful. Payroll is one of the annoying ones. Credit card processing is one of the helpful.




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