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. 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.
The 2010 Awesome Add-ons for QuickBooks are:
1. Method Integration, a web-based platform for QuickBooks that allows users to create customized, online business management systems with real-time syncing to their QuickBooks data. http://methodintegration.com/
2. ExpenseWatch.com, for its online system that offers automated tools for managing business spending processes, while ensuring that spending policies are enforced. http://expensewatch.com/
3. MISys SBM Shop Floor Control, which gives manufacturers enhanced tracking features for managing work tools, production centers, shop operations and manufacturing capacity. http://misysinc.com/
4. Connect Commerce, an ecommerce 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. http://netfira.com/
5. Autofy, which reduces data entry tasks by synchronizing business records between desktop and enterprise software, online data sources, ecommerce systems and mobile devices. http://propelware.com/
6. Qvinci business management system, which aggregates data from QuickBooks and Excel, providing a dashboard view of financial information with forward-looking tools, drill down, early warning indicators and graphical data representations. http://qvinci.com/
7. Sharefile, for its web-based collaboration suite that lets users create custom-branded, secure portals for exchanging business files with clients and coworkers. http://sharefile.com/
8. Virtual Time + Expense, an online platform that simplifies preparation, approval and accounting processes for timesheets and expense reports, and includes features for time, class and project tracking. http://virtualsoftware.net/
9. ExpandedReports for QuickBooks/Fishbowl, a comprehensive and flexible reporting tool for business using QuickBooks of Fishbowl Inventory that helps consultants produce and customize reports for clients, filling the gaps left by standard reporting options. http://xpandedreports.com/
10. In addition to the above Awsome Add-ons, incMagic (http://incmagic.com/) search was named a “New Product to Watch.” The system provides easy-to-use search functions within QuickBooks that lets users quickly search across any data in the program.
The Sleeter Group is a nationwide community of experts offering tech consulting services to small business owners, as well as training programs and seminars. They also publish a wide range of QuickBooks reference materials and textbooks used by more than 100 U.S. colleges and universities.
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We use QuickBooks at my work and was not aware of these great add-ons. Thank you very much for the list!
Another great extra that is very affordable is Phitch – the only QuickBooks extra to optimize inventory levels. While others tell you how much inventory you have, Phitch tells you how much you should have – which is a big headache for small business. Phitch is easy to use – much like being on auto-pilot and provides Fortune 500 Level features as well as being recognized by the Small Business Administration’s SBDCNet website as was recently awarded 2009 Most Innovative Inventory Management Solution.
Hello,
We were wondering…is there a way to add product thumbnail photos to QBooks invoices? And control line width for that?
Also…we would like to add horizontal graphic lines separating between the entries, so it will be visually easier to scan through an invoice that has many entries. For some reason QBooks does not have that option. Perhaps an add-on?
Thanks so much!
Ido