This one is an online program so will be compatible with any computer system with an internet browser. I have used Wave Accounting for years and I think it's a wonderful online accounting program for small businesses who offer services of some sort, or who sell products but don't need to track inventory, or can track inventory in another program. What you get with Wave. I love that you can connect your (world-wide) bank account to Wave and have your transactions uploaded automatically at the press of a button; you still have to allocate each transaction to the relevant income or expense account but this process is the same as what you have to do with QuickBooks or Xero.

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You can access Wave from your smartphone. The Dashboard displays your Bank Account balances (where you click on Update Now to get the new transactions from your bank), A Financial Snapshot showing a chart of Income vs Expenses, Setting Tips, a summary of bills you owe and what's owed to you, a summary of your Net Income, and a colorful wheel chart comparing business expenses. There are several sales invoice designs to choose from. You can use different currencies. If you go shopping you can automatically upload a copy of your receipt to Wave Accounting with your smart phone, or scan and email it to your Wave account.

As Wave can be used world-wide, they have a section where you enter your own sales tax options (GST/VAT) based upon your country's sales tax laws. Customize your list of accounts. View and print/pdf a range of important financial reports such as Income Statement and Balance Sheet.

Payroll is available but only for North America and you have to pay to use it. They have a Wave University so you can learn for free how to use this program. There are so many great features that you need to go and check it out yourself! Cons. You can do basic inventory tracking but will have to do journals as a work around.

If you are looking for intensive inventory tracking, this is not the right program for you. At the time of writing this article, Xero is the same - only offering basic products - but Xero allows other inventory intensive software programs to connect to Xero to push the right financial details through. The second of the four bookkeeping software is Manager. It is an open source software and is designed to allow users to be up and running within minutes of download.

It is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. Unlike most traditional software brands, there is no need to spend hours configuring Manager and entering opening balances, setting up the chart of accounts and financial year dates before being able to use it. It's simple, fast and easy to use. What you get with Manager. You have the option of backing up to your local storage, or to the cloud. The main screen shows a summary of how the business is doing by displaying the bank balances, receivables due, and a profit and loss breakdown with income and expenses listed.

The ability to produce customized sales invoices and keep a list of client contacts. Keep a record of bills and supplier contacts as well as accounts payable due. You can process journal entries to adjust your accounts. Reconcile the bank accounts.

Inventory recording. Produce these main reports: balance sheet, trial balance, profit and loss and aged receivables. Add any number of plug-ins to increase what you can do in Manager including sales tax compliance - Manager has a list for various countries.

There is a forum where you can get help. Who needs to spend a fortune on traditional accounting programs when you can get bookkeeping software for free in a fantastic program like Manager!

Just click on the graphic below which will take you to Manager's download page. The third of our recommended bookkeeping software free downloads is Express Accounts.

It is compatible with Windows 10, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1, on 64 bit Windows, Mac OS X 10.5 or above. What you get with Express Accounts. Cash book – enter payments and receipts. Bank reconciliation – import a CEV download of your bank statement for automated matching of transactions (payments and receipts). Produce a report.

Make journal entries. Chart of accounts that you can streamline to your business. Ability to create customer cards, sales invoices, and monitoring of payments. Inventory items that can be included on sales invoices.

A whole range of reports including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, receivables, trial balance and a lot more. The option to include sales tax (GST, VAT etc) at the percentage rate you chose. Online help. The option to upgrade (at a cost) to a more advanced bookkeeping suite. Click on the graphic below which will take you to the NCH homepage containing the bookkeeping software free download link – as seen in the graphic.

Click on ‘download the free accounting software version here’ and it will download the set up assistant for placing this software onto your computer. Once you are setup and ready to go, enter the program by clicking on the icon on your desktop which should like something like this. If you cannot find the icon you may need to add it to your desktop by searching for it in your computer’s list of programs for NCH Software, right clicking on Express Accounts, selecting ‘Send to.’ and choosing ‘Desktop (shortcut). When you are in Express Accounts a message might come up asking you to certify that you have less than five employees. Click on this. If you have more than five employees, click on the box for the commercial license.

This prompt might only show up after you have been using it the program a short while. To learn how to use the software you can access the help guide by clicking on the question mark on the top right – see red circle on graphic below. ' Although the program is very easy to download and use by students it is by no means just a learning tool. It is being used seriously by hundreds of clubs, trusts, and businesses of all sizes around the world to maintain their general ledger accounts'. LedgerLite The fourth bookkeeping software free download is LedgerLite, by Responsive Software.Update. Ledger has now changed to LedgerLite.

You can still download the software immediately, and use it as an unregistered user for 30 days, and then pay a $50 one-time fee, no more charges after that, the on-going cost is free. This program is fantastic for learning double-entry bookkeeping because you have to manually enter both sides of each entry. LedgerLite is compatible with all versions of Windows including Windows emulators for the Mac.

It is a very good, simple and unique program for small businesses and for students wanting to practice entering debits and credits. You can upgrade to LedgerPlus for invoicing, stock control, customer accounts. What you get with LedgerLite. A cashbook: where you enter the transactions off your bank statement. Chart of Accounts: that you can change to suit your business.

Entries: a second way you can enter transactions showing on your bank statement, or for journaling entries from one account to another if you have made a mistake. A ledger: that lays out the detail of each account that you have made entries to. Income statement report: showing if the business has made a. Balance sheet: showing the. Cash flow statement: showing the in and out of the business. Online help and support. The option to unlock, for a small fee, some of the locked features such as a ledger listing, trial balance and other.

A new, small business can get by without these options – it is not necessary to unlock them. The option to upgrade, for a price, to LedgerPlus which has everything a business can use from sales invoicing, accounts receivable and payable, stock control, asset schedule, depreciation etc. You will see the download icon on their home page – just click on it to install the software to your computer’s hard drive. Have fun with your free bookkeeping software!

This one is an online program so will be compatible with any computer system with an internet browser. I have used Wave Accounting for years and I think it's a wonderful online accounting program for small businesses who offer services of some sort, or who sell products but don't need to track inventory, or can track inventory in another program.

What you get with Wave. I love that you can connect your (world-wide) bank account to Wave and have your transactions uploaded automatically at the press of a button; you still have to allocate each transaction to the relevant income or expense account but this process is the same as what you have to do with QuickBooks or Xero. You can access Wave from your smartphone. The Dashboard displays your Bank Account balances (where you click on Update Now to get the new transactions from your bank), A Financial Snapshot showing a chart of Income vs Expenses, Setting Tips, a summary of bills you owe and what's owed to you, a summary of your Net Income, and a colorful wheel chart comparing business expenses. There are several sales invoice designs to choose from.

You can use different currencies. If you go shopping you can automatically upload a copy of your receipt to Wave Accounting with your smart phone, or scan and email it to your Wave account.

As Wave can be used world-wide, they have a section where you enter your own sales tax options (GST/VAT) based upon your country's sales tax laws. Customize your list of accounts. View and print/pdf a range of important financial reports such as Income Statement and Balance Sheet. Payroll is available but only for North America and you have to pay to use it. They have a Wave University so you can learn for free how to use this program.

There are so many great features that you need to go and check it out yourself! Cons.

You can do basic inventory tracking but will have to do journals as a work around. If you are looking for intensive inventory tracking, this is not the right program for you. At the time of writing this article, Xero is the same - only offering basic products - but Xero allows other inventory intensive software programs to connect to Xero to push the right financial details through. The second of the four bookkeeping software is Manager. It is an open source software and is designed to allow users to be up and running within minutes of download. It is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux.

Unlike most traditional software brands, there is no need to spend hours configuring Manager and entering opening balances, setting up the chart of accounts and financial year dates before being able to use it. It's simple, fast and easy to use. What you get with Manager.

You have the option of backing up to your local storage, or to the cloud. The main screen shows a summary of how the business is doing by displaying the bank balances, receivables due, and a profit and loss breakdown with income and expenses listed. The ability to produce customized sales invoices and keep a list of client contacts. Keep a record of bills and supplier contacts as well as accounts payable due.

You can process journal entries to adjust your accounts. Reconcile the bank accounts. Inventory recording.

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Produce these main reports: balance sheet, trial balance, profit and loss and aged receivables. Add any number of plug-ins to increase what you can do in Manager including sales tax compliance - Manager has a list for various countries. There is a forum where you can get help. Who needs to spend a fortune on traditional accounting programs when you can get bookkeeping software for free in a fantastic program like Manager!

Just click on the graphic below which will take you to Manager's download page. The third of our recommended bookkeeping software free downloads is Express Accounts.

It is compatible with Windows 10, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1, on 64 bit Windows, Mac OS X 10.5 or above. What you get with Express Accounts. Cash book – enter payments and receipts.

Bank reconciliation – import a CEV download of your bank statement for automated matching of transactions (payments and receipts). Produce a report.

Make journal entries. Chart of accounts that you can streamline to your business. Ability to create customer cards, sales invoices, and monitoring of payments. Inventory items that can be included on sales invoices.

A whole range of reports including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, receivables, trial balance and a lot more. The option to include sales tax (GST, VAT etc) at the percentage rate you chose. Online help. The option to upgrade (at a cost) to a more advanced bookkeeping suite.

Click on the graphic below which will take you to the NCH homepage containing the bookkeeping software free download link – as seen in the graphic. Click on ‘download the free accounting software version here’ and it will download the set up assistant for placing this software onto your computer.

Once you are setup and ready to go, enter the program by clicking on the icon on your desktop which should like something like this. If you cannot find the icon you may need to add it to your desktop by searching for it in your computer’s list of programs for NCH Software, right clicking on Express Accounts, selecting ‘Send to.’ and choosing ‘Desktop (shortcut).

When you are in Express Accounts a message might come up asking you to certify that you have less than five employees. Click on this. If you have more than five employees, click on the box for the commercial license. This prompt might only show up after you have been using it the program a short while.

To learn how to use the software you can access the help guide by clicking on the question mark on the top right – see red circle on graphic below. ' Although the program is very easy to download and use by students it is by no means just a learning tool. It is being used seriously by hundreds of clubs, trusts, and businesses of all sizes around the world to maintain their general ledger accounts'. LedgerLite The fourth bookkeeping software free download is LedgerLite, by Responsive Software.Update. Ledger has now changed to LedgerLite. You can still download the software immediately, and use it as an unregistered user for 30 days, and then pay a $50 one-time fee, no more charges after that, the on-going cost is free. This program is fantastic for learning double-entry bookkeeping because you have to manually enter both sides of each entry.

LedgerLite is compatible with all versions of Windows including Windows emulators for the Mac. It is a very good, simple and unique program for small businesses and for students wanting to practice entering debits and credits. You can upgrade to LedgerPlus for invoicing, stock control, customer accounts. What you get with LedgerLite.

A cashbook: where you enter the transactions off your bank statement. Chart of Accounts: that you can change to suit your business. Entries: a second way you can enter transactions showing on your bank statement, or for journaling entries from one account to another if you have made a mistake. A ledger: that lays out the detail of each account that you have made entries to. Income statement report: showing if the business has made a. Balance sheet: showing the. Cash flow statement: showing the in and out of the business.

Online help and support. The option to unlock, for a small fee, some of the locked features such as a ledger listing, trial balance and other. A new, small business can get by without these options – it is not necessary to unlock them. The option to upgrade, for a price, to LedgerPlus which has everything a business can use from sales invoicing, accounts receivable and payable, stock control, asset schedule, depreciation etc. You will see the download icon on their home page – just click on it to install the software to your computer’s hard drive.

Have fun with your free bookkeeping software!