Easiest Accounting Software to Use

QuickBooks Plus is relatively quick and easy to setup. They have a dashboard that offers step-by-step tutorials for setting up your account and every time you login you will be prompted with new tips or even a to-do list to make sure your account is accessing its full potential.

There are helpful reminders as well on each page and a large volume of tutorials and guides on the QuickBooks website. They do everything they can to make setting up and using their software easy. You can automatically sync and download transactions from all business accounts, create rules so they automatically categorize and more. Once you have it up and running, Plus does a lot of the accounting inputting for you.

A Few Details about this Software:

With Plus, you will pay $23.97 per month for six months and then $39.95 per month after that. There is a free 30-day trial, but if you choose to do the trial you cannot enjoy the introductory rate.

Customized Invoices:	Credit Card/Paypal Processing: Added Fee
Expense Tracking:	Import Bank Transactions:
Estimates or Quotes:	Employee Time Sheets
Converts Estimates/Quotes to Invoices:	1099’s:
Managing and Paying Bills:	W2’s:
Inventory Tracking:	Prints or Electronically Processes Payroll Checks:

A nice thing about QuickBooks Online products is their tutorials – something the desktop versions really need to improve. QuickBooks Essentials is very easy to use and you can access it from any device. When you set it up, everything is self-explanatory and there are tons of prompts the first time you login to help you set it all up.

Each menu option you visit will also feature helpful prompts and tips. If you need more in-depth assistance, there are tons of tutorials, forums and user guides. Once you’ve setup your bank accounts and rules for categorizes, everything will automatically download and categorize – so all you need to do is login and verify it is correct.

A Few Details about this Software:

QuickBooks Essentials comes with a generous six month introductory rate of $18.85 per month and then you will pay $26.95 per month after that.

Customized Invoices:	Credit Card/Paypal Processing: Added Fee
Expense Tracking:	Import Bank Transactions:
Estimates or Quotes:	Employee Time Sheets
Converts Estimates/Quotes to Invoices:	1099’s:
Managing and Paying Bills:	W2’s:
Inventory Tracking:	Prints or Electronically Processes Payroll Checks:

At first blush, WorkingPoint’s simplified dashboard and interface may seem too complex, but once you get used to how they’ve setup their prompts and tutorials, you will find it surprisingly easy to use. Unlike other programs, WorkingPoint isn’t flooding you with options, but the software itself can still be customized to your business accounting needs.

You can first customize your dashboard to only show information you want – and you’re prompted for this the moment you create your account. Also, every menu option gives you a step-by-step guide on how to use that option as well as additional tutorials and information to set it up and access all of the features. There’s tons of features you wouldn’t know existed without these help tutorials along the way – which is nice, because then you know you’re maximizing the software’s true potential.

A Few Details about this Software:

To get the most out of WorkingPoint, you will want to sign up for Thunderstorm, which is $19 per month or $190 per year. You can try it for free for 30 days to make sure you like it too.

Customized Invoices:	Credit Card/Paypal Processing: Added Fee
Expense Tracking:	Import Bank Transactions:
Estimates or Quotes:	Employee Time Sheets
Converts Estimates/Quotes to Invoices:	1099’s:
Managing and Paying Bills:	W2’s:
Inventory Tracking:	Prints or Electronically Processes Payroll Checks:

GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping is definitely one of the easier cloud-based programs out there. They worked hard to make it user-friendly and the dashboard has numerous prompts when you initially create your account so that you can set it all up and get the most from their software.

All of their integrations run very smoothly and you don’t have to be a coding expert or any type of expert for that matter to use the software. The software itself can be considered “basic,” but for some businesses, basic is all that is required.

With GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping you can start and complete setup in as little as 30 minutes.

A Few Details about this Software:

GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping doesn’t offer any free trials or frills – instead, they have just one account option. You can sign up for $9.99 per month.

Customized Invoices:	Credit Card/Paypal Processing: Added Fee
Expense Tracking:	Import Bank Transactions:
Estimates or Quotes:	Employee Time Sheets
Converts Estimates/Quotes to Invoices:	1099’s:
Managing and Paying Bills:	W2’s:
Inventory Tracking:	Prints or Electronically Processes Payroll Checks:

QuickBooks Simple Start is perfect for new businesses – and those new to accounting software. There is little fuss and setup is simple with their step-by-step tutorials. They have plenty of guides and tutorials online too when you need the extra help.

When it comes to syncing your accounts and importing data, there are plenty of options and they are linked with thousands of financial institutions so that you can link up even faster. When you first sign in on your dashboard each day you will see the “Needs Attention” section. Here you are reminded with what you still need to setup – creating a to-do list sort of so that you can get the most out of your Simple Start program.

A Few Details about this Software:

QuickBooks Simple Start offers a free 30-day trial. If you don’t want to do the trial, then you can enjoy a generous six month introductory rate of $10.36 per month. After that, you will pay the regular price of $12.95 per month.

Customized Invoices:	Credit Card/Paypal Processing: Added Fee
Expense Tracking:	Import Bank Transactions:
Estimates or Quotes:	Employee Time Sheets
Converts Estimates/Quotes to Invoices:	1099’s:
Managing and Paying Bills:	W2’s:
Inventory Tracking:	Prints or Electronically Processes Payroll Checks: