Top 20 SaaS Accounting and Cloud Bookkeeping Online Software Reviews
by admin
When I was in college, I supported myself by starting my own small business on the side. I still remember collecting all of my receipts and business documents in a plastic bag, and then handing everything off to my bookkeeper at the end of the year.
That was so dumb. If anything happened to that bag, my business would’ve run into some serious problems.
But that’s no longer the case today.
Today’s businesses have access to a wide array of online, electronic bookkeeping applications which make this job so much easier. Especially within the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of important advancements in technology which have made bookkeeping easier.
- Credit card transactions can be automatically added to the books.
- You can use a camera phone to upload a receipt.
- You can collaborate with business partners through a single application.
Bookkeeping is so much easier now than it’s ever been before. Even if you don’t understand accounting, you can still manage your own books.
Below, I’ve compiled a list of the top 20 online bookkeeping applications that are available from a Software-as-a-Service delivery model.
- Outright – The automated approach to bookkeeping. It lets you say goodbye to old-fashioned accounting.
- Kashoo – Kashoo helps you become more organized while also saving you money on accounting fees with their collaborative, tablet-friendly accounting software.
- Pavintheway – Manage your entire company from this full-featured robust online accounting package.
- Clear Books – Time-saving online bookkeeping software that’s in use at thousands of British companies.
- Accounts Portal – Manage your entire business from a single handy and easy-to-use accounting system.
- Yendo – With a Web 2.0 approach to finance, Yendo plays nicely with mobile devices and third-party cloud services.
- Xero – This is an incredibly easy accounting application that makes finance a pleasure.
- Netsuite – Good friends of the blog. This fast-growing company offers CRM, accounting, ERP and ecommerce software… all from a single source, and all from the cloud.
- NolaPro – Allows you to create your own online accounting site, or rent the hosted version directly from them.
- Merchant’s Mirror – This is the next step in the evolution of online small business accounting software.
- Envision Accounting – An online accounting suite that’s specially designed for project-driven companies. Incorporates accounting and project management into a single suite.
- Quickbooks Online – QuickBooks is one of the best-known and most trusted brands in accounting. And this is their hosted online product offering.
- Wave Accounting – Easy to use with a high degree of automation. Get your accounting out of the shoebox, and into this simple, well-organized, secure solution.
- Skyclerk – Skyclerk offers dead simple accounting that’s elegant, reliable and secure.
- Perfect Books – Spend more time focusing on your business with the help of this free, paperless and automated online bookkeeping application.
- Financial Force – A cloud-based financial suite that’s affiliated with SalesForce and UNIT4.
- Freeagent Central – A stress-free online bookkeeping service that’s used every day by thousands of companies.
- Less Accounting – Less Accounting believes that accounting should be easy. Why do more accounting when you can do less accounting?
- Intacct – Award-winning accounting software that’s used by over four thousand organizations.
- VirtualSplat – An accounting company that caters to the online marketing and multi-level-marketing industries.
Do you see one that I missed? Would you like to share your experience with one of the companies I’ve mentioned? Leave a comment below and share your thoughts.
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Dan
Jun 29th, 2011
Aplos Software is a web-based fund accounting solution for nonprofit organizations. It is designed to be simple for the non-cpa.
Please let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Dan
Maurice
Oct 24th, 2011
i found cleanbill, this i a supersimple but supercomplete cloudbased accounting app. which you can use in almost any type of company,
their product called LITEBOOKS, is comparable but i think better them products like zoho, invoicera, clearbooks etc,
Mike
Nov 23rd, 2011
Nice.. but let me suggest 100% Free invoicing solution at http://www.fetchflow.com.
Try it and see if you like it
Neel
Dec 20th, 2011
It seems like these are mostly US accounting packages? Any that are “international” or Canadian? I see a lot of language about the “IRS” on your #1 Outright …so I skipped it entirely.
thanks – great resource.
joe
Jan 29th, 2012
I have used a program by EasyAs for about the last 5 years and I sware by it, I have most of my business associates using it now..
I think this is there website: http://www.easyasaccountingsoftware.com
In the time I have been using the software I have only had to contact them for help once.. They have all these short videos on there website which normally solve my questions..
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Mark Gubuan | Top Accounting Services
Feb 10th, 2012
This is a great list. I have been researching the Top Cloud Based Accounting systems and this is definitely a pretty good list. I would caution those that do end up going with one of these services, that you also still have an accountant on hand to make sure that you’re getting the right financial output you expect. This is critical to functioning properly and I would hate to see the fundamentals get lost with these easy to use systems.
Bookkeeper
Feb 16th, 2012
But if you loose receipts or received invoices…. cloud bookkeeping will not help
mohak
Mar 29th, 2012
i wanted a demo for all these packages moreover is there any accnt package that supports playbookor ipad
Gautam Basu
Apr 6th, 2012
I wanted to have an accounting program for my small business , the system will be used in simple type” Tablet P.C”. If you can suggest something, please let me know your agent in Mumbai,
India.