Alternatives to QuickBooks

[ChrisHeggem]

It's a new year and I'm looking for alternatives to QuickBooks and have found a few solutions that look promising.

Outright.com

PeachTree

GnuCash

Does anybody have experience with these tools or have any others they recommend for a small businesses/sole proprietor?

[Gary Barzel]

I haven't heard such positive things about Gnucash. With PeachTree I've heard some mixed results, some say it's decent, and others say it's not good compared to QuickBooks.

If you are running your business all by yourself then I would recommend Quicken Home and Business. However if you do plan on taking on more staff in the future it's not worth it being that you will have to upgrade and pay more money to get a more complex edition.

[ChrisHeggem]

A lot of these solutions look like overkill. Just need something simple that isn't time consuming. That's why I was looking at Outright and GnuCash.

[jrockfl]

I'm using Peachtree and it works pretty well. The have an api that allows me to download orders from the web site without having to enter them in. Also, I can update the quantities on the web site.

I picked Peachtree over Quickbooks because of the way it stores the data. Peachtree uses a database and Quickbook uses the file system I believe.