Simple Accounting Software for Freelancer

sufjan

I am looking for *simple* to use piece of software which I can use for book-keeping, producing simple reports throughout the year and the necessary year-end reports (i.e. profit & loss accounts) for my Tax Return. I am freelance web designer, and typically raise a small amount of larger invoices per month (2-3 is the norm), and have relatively few expenses save for the occasional sub-contractor and equipment purchases, so do not need anything overly complex.

In an ideal world I would like the software to be able to handle invoice and quote production, but I suspect I might not get this.

VAT handling isn't needed at present, but I anticipate it will be at some point, so the ability to handle that is probably a prerequisite.

Just to throw a spanner in to the works, I am Apple Mac based, so ideally it would be good if it could run on there, but if absolutely necessary, I do have access to a PC. So far, QuickBooks Simple Start looks about right, but it's PC only.

Any tips would be *greatly* apprecaited!

Quark_2

sufjan wrote:

Just to throw a spanner in to the works, I am Apple Mac based, so ideally it would be good if it could run on there, but if absolutely necessary, I do have access to a PC. So far, QuickBooks Simple Start looks about right, but it's PC only.

Have you consider using a windows emulator on your mac?:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/virtualpc/

I'm sorry I'm not well up on mac software, but offhand I would suggest that maybe Microsoft Money running on a virtual PC could work.

BHS

I'm currently trying out Invoice It! on a free 30 day trial and so far I'm quite impressed.
It produces Quotes and Invoices as you require, which can be e-mailed and includes business accounting & more - all for £48.00.

Worth checking out.

http://www.scrambled-card.co.uk/index.htm