Best business-accounting software for me?

[Dave A]

Who is using Quickbooks? Does Quickbooks also handle network connections as bad as pastel?

I use QuickBooks. And as I don't use Pastel, I don't have a benchmark performance experience to measure against. So no idea on that front.

QuickBooks Enterprise does have a little trick for multi-site situations - using remote desktop services (RDS).

You can read the white paper on this here - which also explains the inherent problems with "just accessing the company file over VPN".

Obviously the speed you get using RDS over a VPN does come at a cost.

The alternative would be to go for the QuickBooks Cloud Hosting option. Again, not exactly cheap, although not nearly as outrageous as some other options I've looked at.

[Mattpinner]

According to your requirement . I suggest you SlickPie accounting software. It's 100% free online accounting software. It covers my business necessary- for example online invoicing and billing, tracking the expenses of your company, getting the reports of payments, expenses, tax summaries and performance, creating estimates and quotes; raising credit notes; and much more. The part I like the most is their MagicBot service that is supposed to read my receipts automatically.

[Violeta Sirakova]

Pastel is a good one. I tried it before. But among online accounting services software I like ZipBooks most then quickbooks. QB is a pricey solution I know. And for those who are using linux beware of QB. In my case there was a problem with integration. That's why I don't recommend it to everyone. From other aspect its all right.