ACCOUNTING and FINANCE

The Best Accounting Program For Contractors

Here are several I have used and that work well.  When you review them, make sure you are looking at the Contractor editions.  Click on hardhat to go to websites.

• Quickbooks desktop = the old stand-by, widely used, user friendly.  The one everyone knows.  Has special Contractor-oriented platform.
• Quickbooks online = Intuit has recently made a big improvement to their on-line entry.  This cloud-based platform is improving rapidly in response to the entry of Xero in the US market.
• Xero = new entry to the US market.  Comes out of Australia.  Very aggressive company, constantly improving their product.  Cloud based.  They have recently acquired HubDoc, a documents management company, which could provide them with a market advantage for remote accounting.
• Sage 50 (used to be Peachtree) = more respected accounting program, more expensive. Most independent builders do not need the power of this program.

Any of these will do the job.