Quote Originally Posted by bcrogers View Post
I am currently using Quickbooks for another business but not using it for my ecommerce retail music book business. I'm tracking everything manually at this point but am trying to make a decision on accounting software and the inventory aspect is my main area of concern. It seems that Quickbooks' lack of costing methodolgies (uses average cost only rather than LIFO/FIFO options) is a serious drawback since our product costs do fluctuate from time to time. In my research of Peachtree, I see that it is more flexible and allows other cost methodologies. Can anyone else share your experience in regard to this issue tell me about any other accounting software that you might recommend for a small retail business? Thanks.
I have used both software, and I used quickbooks for about 10 years, but I moved to Peachtree last year and I find that it is more user friendly and the the staff will help you for a longer period of time (6mos) vs. (1 month from quickbooks) You will find that there is a lot of 3rd party software additions to quickbooks but Peachtree is closing in fast since Peachtree was taking over by Sage some years ago. I am a business advisor and I also use ACT and the two intergrate seamlessly together. A lot of my clients are in the retail end like yourself and I recommend Peachtree all the time. I personally like Peachtree better and It is affordable and worth a try.