With millions of small and medium businesses using QuickBooks to manage their financial affairs, the industry for QuickBooks “add-ons” has blossomed. Add-on programs are essential to many small and mid-sized businesses because they are often the only way to get industry-specific or highly specialized functions and capabilities. They’re great for adding extra capabilities in key areas such as inventory, time and project tracking, invoicing, e-commerce and others.
Every year, The Sleeter Group – a premier network of small-business technology consultants – names a new list of winners in its “Awesome Add-ons for QuickBooks” competition at an annual event that showcases cutting-edge businesses management tools and technologies. The Awesome Add-ons award recognizes software programs, Web-based applications and services that help enhance QuickBooks by giving users additional tools for managing their businesses. To qualify, technologies must seamlessly integrate with QuickBooks, and offer superior design, ease-of-use and conformance with appropriate accounting standards.
Here are the 2010 Awesome Add-ons for QuickBooks. Some are geared toward accountants and professionals who work with small companies, while others may be suitable for business owners who are QuickBooks power-users:
• Method Integration is a Web-based platform for QuickBooks that allows users to create customized, online business-management systems with real-time syncing to their QuickBooks data (Web site: http://methodintegration.com/).
• ExpenseWatch.com offers an online system with automated tools for managing business-spending processes, while helping ensure that spending policies at your business are enforced (Web site: http://expensewatch.com/).
• MISys SBM Shop Floor Control gives small manufacturers enhanced tracking features for managing work tools, production centers, shop operations and manufacturing capacity (Web site: http://misysinc.com/).
• Connect Commerce is an e-commerce solution offering secure, real-time applications for sellers and buyers, giving each party access to more accurate data that can be automatically integrated into their accounting system (Web site: http://netfira.com/).
• Autofy is an add-on that reduces data entry tasks by synchronizing business records between desktop and enterprise software, online data sources, e-commerce systems and mobile devices (Web site: http://propelware.com/). •
Daniel Kehrer can be reached at editor@business.com.
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