Feeling a bit stumped on my move to the cloud. I was so looking forward to getting rid of Quickbooks for accounting, payroll and invoicing and using the cloud. I would rid myself of the last locally stored information. I would thumb my nose at Intuit and their annual charges. My accounting package would talk with banks and credit cards. But I’m not finding the whole solution.
Here is what I need. I want to record time online and with my phone. I want my many (1) employees to do the same. I want this time to go directly into my invoices which are sent via e-mail to clients. I then want this time to be used for payroll. This is what happens now with Minute 7, Quickbooks and Quickbooks payroll. I have to renew Quickbooks every year or two at about $300 and I have to pay Quickbooks for the payroll service each year at another $300. I then have to do my own backups and Minute 7 costs me about $8 per month.
I am finding some very cool pieces with the online programs. I find Freshbooks and Harvest which seem to do a great job with time tracking and creating invoices. They go beyond and
So with what I found so far, Freshbooks looks like it would cost me more than my whole current setup. I would need to do another payroll system and transfer information to it and back. I can see it happening in the near future but for now I will keep my locally installed accounting package and keep an eye on these other companies.do a great job of collecting payments and with Harvest, tracking projects. Neither are accounting systems but they can intergrate with some systems such as Xero, Outright and Wave. These accounting systems do not do payroll. Only Wave seems to have a plan for doing payroll.
