At the moment, I work for a small firm as a bookkeeper. I have a grandchild on the way, and I am thinking about leaving employment, and becoming part time self employed, in order to assist my son and daughter in law with childcare.
We use Sage 50 Accounts in the office, and this is great for me to use, because I know it well, but, I understand it's quite expensive to buy for multiple company usage. With that in mind, which software would you recommend, that is cost effective, easy to use, and that you, as the accountant, feel it's easy to work with? I have, on a few occasions, heard my boss complaining about year end information, and want to get a broad view of what's available. Are there any I should absolutely steer clear of? An accountant view is important, as I would like to approach local accountants, when the time comes.
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It depends
1. VT is cheap but is desktop based.
2. Cloud bookkeeping is becoming popular - main players are Xero, Freeagent, Kashflow, SAGEone, Quickbooks Online, Clearbooks. There is a cost to these. They all have addons. Xero has over 500.
3. There is some free bookkeeping software such as wave. Cant comment as never used.
4. Then there is the traditional favourite SAGE line 50 that can be used both on desktop or cloud using the drive. But this is losing popularity due to cost and added features and functionality that the cloud packages above have.