[andertoons]

OK, I run a small business out of my home. I'm the only employee so I don't have to worry about payroll per se. I need some decent accounting software that allows invoicing and some ease of use.
I used to use Quicken for Small Business when I was part of Gates' world, and I really liked it, but everything I read about Quicken or Quickbooks for Mac sounds horrible.
I'm using MYOB now, but it's not the most intuitive software I've seen.
There's gotta be something simple and reliable out there. Lil help?

[Paul_Aris]

I also run a small business from my home. It is an eccomerce site but also get a lot of sales through email and phone. This is side business so basically I work over 40hrs a week at my real job and then I have the rest of the time to run this bussiness which isn't much after doing stuff with the kids and trying to have a life too. Anyway, right now I am using excell and a manual process for most of my stuff. My powerbook came with a 30 version of Quickbooks. So I check it out. Well my year goes by the calender year and I am not going to go back to January and reenter all the data. So I will start out clean Jan. 06 upon closing the year so I have accurate data and can start fresh. So far the software looks like it will save me some time and looks user friendly. It appears they have fixed some fo the earlier problems. I still think it is probably the best option. I am willing to give it a go.

[Alain_Rostoker]

QuickBooks Pro 2006 is what you want! (I'm quite sure) web page

[Earthling7]

You might want to try TimeNet. It is a simple, but powerful app. It allows you to create fixed rate and hourly rate items and create invoices. It also tracks your time, like when a client calls you etc.
It is not the end-all accounting package, but it excels at what it sets out to do. And it's inexpensive.
I tried it a couple of days ago and registered (and paid) already. It's that good.
(oh, and no, I have nothing to do with it except using it now)

[jltnol]

As a small business owner with only one employee... ME... I can tell you that QuickBooks is great for just about everything.... except payroll.
I'm a paid employee of my company, and the attached payroll program that comes with QBPro, Aatrix, is the absoloute worst piece of software ever written. I have vowed, screamed, yelled, written, sent smoke signals, cussed, cried like a baby to Intuit about the horrible payroll program, and have sworn to move AWAY from Quickbooks in Jan 2006 unless the payroll section is RESTORED to the Mac version. I've been a beta tester for the last two versions of QBPro, so I've gotten a copy for free, but no more. Period.
I need, and if you are going to pay yourself as an employee, you need an accounting program that has an intergrated payroll program, not some afterthought. Look at MacP&L, which is the software I'm switching to in January, unless Intutit gets my message, and I don't think they have.

[Startyger]

iggsofts, iBank may be good.. thier app once called iWork, now iBiz..(one of the clues that apple was coming out with iWork), works well with this app, for noting time, projects etc.