My History
After looking at various way of handling my accounting, I decided on using Quickbooks for the 2006 year. Before hand I had used, Simply Accounting for a couple of years and then had a in house solution. Rather then spending the money to have the in house solution upgraded I am looking to have the Custom software integrated with QuickBooks.
Why QuickBooks ?
Both software products have very similar product lines, features and prices. Leaving out those options it was left up to who had the best developer program. Intuit won easly due to the avaliablity of their sdk. I contacted Sage / Simply Accounting a while ago and yet to receive a response. To me, that is a clear indication that my business is unwanted.
Simply Accounting - cloak and dagger
Personaly I do not like cloak and dagger companies when it comes time to integrate with their solutions. In the past when I have tried to work with companies that use this model they attempt to have you contract the integration work out to them or just make it plan difficult to do any thing.
Simply Accounting seams to be more of a Training company then a software development company. If you look at their Simply Accounting 8.0B from 2000 it is all most the same as their current 2006 version. The big improvement was made in their help files.
Intuit - Freedom
Intuit makes the documentation for their sdk open to developers who opt in, this gives the freedom to do what is needed. When a company runs with a model like Intuit does, development of applications usually goes much faster, bug free, smoother and the end result in more Orders.
Never Enter Data Twice! (NED2 TM) http://www.developer.intuit.com/QuickBooksSDK/Features/
The NED2 policy is exactly what I am looking for, any company can benifit from avoiding repeating of tasks.
