Discovered a complete (free) small business software suite

buglawton

I have been on the hunt for some cheap - under £100 say - software to do Inventory & Invoicing for our Wholesale & Retail Handbag & Jewellery orders.

Found this, installed it & have been evaluating it:

OneStep Small Business Accounting and Inventory Control which is a FREE package though there is a Pro version for a hundred or so dollars that (it says) can run multi-user on a network. It seems to run OK on quite slow old hardware without a needing huge 'footprint' on my elderly machinery too.

It will practically run a small business. Took me a few hours to enter the Accounts setup, following the Manual & the Demo Company they supply. I noticed everything comes up in £ despite this being a Singapore company that created the package.

Most of all we wanted Inventory Control & Invoicing - seems to do it all but also will be able to generate a decent set of accounts good enough for a small Ltd. Co. With it comes a database called Interbase which is connected with Borland.

Looks like this would also provide an excellent small biz/IT training tool if you were running a course on how to automate a small company. It also has a full Purchasing module and can track business assets.

If anyone has experience of this package - please add to thread! Or do you have software that's cheap to obtain that does a similar/better job?

Sumostar

Hi Buglawton

How's the software package working out? This looks perfect for a business that I'm setting up, and will probably be one of the first things on my new Dell when it arrives (see "Grab It" board)

Lawbag_2

not sure how the American nature of the program affects UK business

buglawton

I think it's perfectly useable in the UK, the reports it generates will provide you accountant with everything needed for the Tax Return & even Annual Report.

We decided such sophistication was not needed for our sole trading operation (in any case we are getting Invoices & Packing notes from our e-shop application) - I use spreadsheets to arrive at the figures. But it was fun evaluating it.

Even if free, this program still needs it's data looking after & backing up etc.