Quickbooks suggestions

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I’m trying to put myself on a strict budget and need advice. I own a

party plan business (In-Home parties for women and couples) and have

to get Quickbooks for my taxes this year. I know there is a free

online version called Simple Start Desktop Edition and there’s Simple

Start Online Edition that are both free to download on our computers.

Other versions cost mucho money. I saw an accountant for the first

time today and it was recommended I get Quickbooks. It’s not necessary

because they’ll take the information in my ledgers anyway but it will

save me time and organize my business better which in the long run

will save me money because I can track what I’m doing.

I probably will get the Free desktop one but want to know if it can be

upgraded later with all my information switched to a different version

or would I have to painstakingly do it all by hand? The desktop one

only allows up to 50 vendors and customers. I have hundreds of

customers that I don’t have in a database. It’s all on paper and

files. So I need a system to organize everything. If I go over 50

vendors or customers then I think it’s $9.95 a month to get I believe

up to 14,000 customers/ vendors.

The other versions of Quickbooks are very expensive $400- $3,000 each

and since I’m on this group I can’t afford it. LOL. There are programs

depending on which Quickbooks I get where you can process credit cards

for only $14.95 a month and no contracts or monthly minimums. I think

it’s 1.72% charge per card. I can cancel my merchant account through

Pipeline credit card processing and save those fees since my 2 year

agreement is almost up.

I was thinking of the basic edition but that’s over $400 unless I need

better glasses. Can I buy Quickbooks software off of Ebay, craiglist

or is it not recommended? Or maybe a website that is cheap.

Thanks for all your suggestions

Donna

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