Half decent cheap software?!

Have you looked at www.e-conomic.co.uk? It is free for the practitioner, but your clients pay a small subscription fee.

Hi,

We can offer MyPAYE online payroll which is HMRC accredited and integrated to Kashflow-e-conomic and Xero all online accounting solutions with very little upfront investment. MyPAYE can be run under our Partner program branded with your logos and has no upfront cost to you. With a price tag of £1 per month for each employee paid or less for block discount. MyPAYE is a very cost effective and non labour intensive solution in comparison to conventional Payroll solutions or running a bureau. Clients get to log in and enter data only and you run the payroll or they can run the whole payroll and you provide the online service. 

www.mypaye.co.uk Take a look at the partner program offering. And take a look at our online Accounts software partners products which are integrated to MyPAYE as I have listed above.

Hope this helps, good luck!

Neil Seekings

neilseekings@lerryn.com

We are offering an extended free trial for Xero until 31 Jan 2010. Visit http://www.alexanderrosse.co.uk/signup.aspx and see what you think.

We tend to agree with what Rachael of edgeofmyseat.com [http://edgeofmyseat.com/]
said about Quickbooks and why she chose to move over to Xero. Check out her blog
on :
 
http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2009/08/22/moving-accounts-from-quickbooks-to-xero/
 
She summarises really neatly the distinct advantage that Xero has over something
like Quickbooks
 
Xero is a 21stCentury "software as a service" as opposed to Quickbooks which has
been around for some time and frankly, just like Sage, its showing its age. We
have nothing against "ageing" we hasten to add! However, when companies such as Sage start to act like the bankers you know its time to move on.
 
Xero's user interface and its fantastic API mean non-accountants can use the
software. It's a piece of cake. At Alexander Rosse we're campaigning against the
vast majority of dinosaur accountants who are just are not willing to move into
the 21stCentury
 
Xero's customer service and back up is very good. Nathan and his team at Xero do
a fantastic job.
 
Cost - dinosaur packages such as Sage , Quickbooks etc just can not cope with
the cost and benefits angle of Xero. £189 per annum for a fully integrated
accounting software package!? In a funny way, we 're looking for the VAT change
back to 17.5% (rumours abound it may even go up to 20%...) as Xero will do this
and we all benefit. 
 
Hope this helps. 

It's not expensive and is really easy to use. I get away with using HMRC's own CT software as I haven't found one cost effective enough yet.

I notice you can get VT Cashbook for free, so clients can use that, and the files can be imported into VT transaction (and then VT Final Accounts). I currently use QuickBooks and Digita, but am going to give VT a go for bookkeeping through to final accounts.