Invoicing software or shareware

[Forrest]

Howdy all.





A friend has his own small business and is looking for some invoicing software. I put him on to QuickBooks. They have a couple versions starting @ $99.



What about ShareWare? All he needs is something to put in simple contact info, i. e. name, phone, addrs, invoice amount & maybe amount carried forward or unpaid.



Anyone have a simple to use preference? He's not that comfortable using the computer, so a complex database program with lots of screens might be too much.



I'm checking into Excel add ons too ... don't know about that one yet.





tia

 

[Rman]

Access could do all your asking for, however it's somewhat complex. Quickbooks is a powerful program, and will do much more than what he needs. Quickbooks has a simple invoice setup though, Access would take some time to set everything up with forms.

 

[rono]

If you have Excel, look into some of the templets that come with it already. There are some that came with mine that have invoices already setup. I'm using a Mac, but maybe there are some for the Windows machines.

Ron

 

[loncray]

I agree with Rono - if he's got Excel, it's got a lot of tools built in to handle that sort of thing already, and there's plenty of shareware addons all over the 'net.

 

[TowPro]

Keep in mind sometimes trying to do something cheaper will cost more in the long run. I Figure he has to learn Excel to be good enough to be able to change the template to what he wants. At $25. 00 per hour that's only 4 hours before he exceeds the price of a basic quick books. Plus I think Quick books is free for a trial period so he can try it to see if he likes it. I did computer/networking consulting work for several small businesses, they all used Quicken.

I agree with Rono - if he's got Excel, it's got a lot of tools built in to handle that sort of thing already, and there's plenty of shareware addons all over the 'net.