Home finance and small business software?
Home finance and small business software?
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AgentM

Original Poster:

49 posts

118 months

Saturday 26th October 2019
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I am looking for a simple software package that we can use for keeping track of our home and maybe business costs and savings/investments. I would like it to help monitor cash flow and basic financial forecasting.

Years ago we used to use Quicken which was very useful but I don't think that this is still available.

Many thanks.



Chris Hinds

497 posts

194 months

Saturday 26th October 2019
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After more than a decade using Microsoft Money (which died in 2005 in reality) I've moved to an application called Moneydance which does all I require - it's published by a company based in Edinburgh and runs on Windows / Mac / iOS to my knowledge but probably on Android too since it's a Java app.

guyvert1

2,161 posts

271 months

Saturday 26th October 2019
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M/soft still do this : https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/download/details.a...

For biz, at of online stuff now, freeagent is popular

AgentM

Original Poster:

49 posts

118 months

Sunday 27th October 2019
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Thank you Chris and Guyvert - your suggestions are all great options for us.

jeff m2

2,060 posts

180 months

Monday 28th October 2019
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Quick books.
It does everything including payroll if you need it.
Kept me accurate to the cent for quite a few years.

Mr Pointy

13,369 posts

188 months

Monday 28th October 2019
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I can burn you a copy of Quicken 2004 if you like.

mikeiow

8,157 posts

159 months

Monday 28th October 2019
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Mr Pointy said:
I can burn you a copy of Quicken 2004 if you like.
Crazy, eh: still happily using Quicken 2000 here.
Mad!

PugwasHDJ80

7,679 posts

250 months

Monday 28th October 2019
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www.moneydashboard.com

Very very good.

Tracks and automatically categorises your bank transactions and then gives you all sorts of analysis (you create rules for things it doesn't understand so you can see where all your money goes). For example it tells you how much money you've spent per retailer (we spent £48 at Costa last month..... down from the horrific £130 from a few months back..... going to get it below £10.....)

We use it to track every penny we spend, to set budgets, and to forecast our accounts.


AgentM

Original Poster:

49 posts

118 months

Thursday 7th November 2019
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Thank you everyone for great recommendations and offers of help. We are working through them all this coming weekend. They all look great options so spoilt for choice!