I bought the vile Quickbooks. You know, the classic kind that runs on Windows. (The Mac version gets bad reviews, and it's different from the Windows version.)

I bought the vile Quickbooks. You know, the classic kind that runs on Windows. (The Mac version gets bad reviews, and it's different from the Windows version.) I have to boot Windows XP in a VM to use the damned thing. I'm embarrassed to tell you how many months behind I am in my data entry. The reason I'm not broke is that I don't use Quickbooks for invoicing. There are several good solutions for online invoicing. I use Harvest and I think they're great. No P.O.s, though. The thing that sold Quickbooks to me is the existence of lots of Dummies-style docs -- you are hardly alone in your pain when you're a Quickbooks user -- and the fact that my accountant accepts the files, which is the real killer feature. I'm still stuck in Gnucash for my personal finances, but I didn't consider using that for the business. I have little faith in my accountant's ability to make sense of Gnucash's files, I'm not confident that it has the features I need, and I can't seem to get it running easily on the Mac. The damned thing seems to be linked against every single library in Linux.