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09-10-2000, 12:23 PM #1Newbie
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Anyone know of any other shareware software like QuickBooks 2000 Pro that is very new and nice? Any freeware ones as well? Something for a hosting company.
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09-10-2000, 07:04 PM #2ex-Aussie
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Good question!!
I'd like to know this one too. Got a copy of Quickbooks on the front of a computer mag CD a few weeks ago, and it got me thinking I should start looking at some 'real' accounting. It seems a little to involved for what I need so if there's a freeware accounting system that someone like use could be perfectly happy with that you know of, post a reply.
You know, just something for adding accounts, reoccuring bills, one time fees for design etc...
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09-18-2000, 01:04 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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akashik, maybe you should give quickbook another try, I'm using QB 2000 Pro, and I love it, it does exacly what we need in hosting, and the recurring billing is awesome, e-mail me if you need any help.
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09-18-2000, 09:32 AM #4Newbie
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Well I'm using it now too, the problem is I want to use there merchant acccount service with it but have to fax some crap in, doing it today, not sure if it will even help.
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09-18-2000, 01:46 PM #5ex-Aussie
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Thanks for the tip - I'll take another look at it
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09-18-2000, 02:04 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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you are welcome, and remeber if you have any problems just drop me a line, QB can be confusing at start
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09-23-2000, 10:22 AM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Carlos,
I am looking at implementing a different accounting system. Does QB 2000 Pro actually send e-mails automatically and work with the merchant accounts to process credit card payments? I don't have any idea of its abilities. Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Angela
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09-26-2000, 10:57 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Angela ..
I don't use it, but I believe that QB 2K can make use of Quickbooks mechant account to indeed process CC payments and other merchant features, but since I don't use it I would contact QK for more info
cheers
Carlos
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10-04-2000, 09:37 PM #9Newbie
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I currently use Quickbooks Pro 2000 but I have been unable to figure out how to email bills to my customers, has anyone figured out if this can be done and how to do it?
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10-07-2000, 01:42 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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With QB2K Pro, the only way to email invoices is to have them print to a .pdf file then email. Not very convenient. I have heard of a few "patches" but I still have not found any.
Also, as a former QB merchant account user, I can say that it is a little cumbersome to use their merchant account feature, although it does interact nicely within QB. All payments can be posted to the customer account, but they have to be entered manually, through Signio (now Verisign).
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10-07-2000, 11:15 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by angela
Carlos,
I am looking at implementing a different accounting system. Does QB 2000 Pro actually send e-mails automatically and work with the merchant accounts to process credit card payments? I don't have any idea of its abilities. Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Angela
[Edited by Marty on 10-09-2000 at 12:40 PM]Marty Hoskins
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10-08-2000, 12:04 PM #12Junior Guru Wannabe
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Marty,
Thanks for the tip. However, th elink in your post does not go anywhere. Can you post the url for the FF Billing Software.
Thanks.
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10-08-2000, 12:15 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by angela
Marty,
Thanks for the tip. However, th elink in your post does not go anywhere. Can you post the url for the FF Billing Software.
Thanks.
I use it and it's quite good.
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10-08-2000, 05:26 PM #14Junior Guru Wannabe
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alchiba - does it interface with a merchant account or just handle organization of client information? I could not find credit card references when I visited their site.
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10-08-2000, 06:35 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by angela
alchiba - does it interface with a merchant account or just handle organization of client information? I could not find credit card references when I visited their site.
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10-08-2000, 11:21 PM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks. I may check it out a little more. I was hoping for something that would interface with Authorize.Net but that does not seem to exist. QuickBooks Pro seems to do a lot of the things that FF Billing does (maybe not as good with e-mailing invoices though)
I heard that UltraspeedUSA is working on a billing script that will do this (interface with Authorize.Net) so I am keeping my fingers crossed and anxiously awaiting it.
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10-09-2000, 12:41 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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Sorry folks. It's amazing what happens when you leave off the http://
It's fixed nowMarty Hoskins
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10-10-2000, 07:10 AM #18Web Hosting Guru
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QuickBooks can take you a long way, but it's really not built for online business. With no real support for e-mailing invoices or handling batch CC billing reasonably, I was disappointed. (Despite having used it for a couple years.)
I looked into writing some scripts to work with QuickBooks' import/export system to handle batch processing of payments. In the end, though, I decided to remove handling of individual customer data completely out of QuickBooks' hands. (Quickbooks really can't handle tracking all the data you need to track on a web hosting customer anyway.) Customer accounting and billing is handled by a custom internal system, and the final batch amounts are just imported into QuickBooks as a line item. QuickBooks is still useful to have around for record-keeping and tax purposes.
I'm really surprised that nobody is yet marketing a reasonable accounting/customer management system for web providers.
[Edited by Travis on 10-10-2000 at 04:23 PM]