List of Accounting Software PackagesIn Feburary 2016 17,

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Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting is, as of October 2010, the highest-rated accounting software on the website Top Ten Reviews. Sage Peachtree gets its lowest marks for ease of set-up, as it can be time-consuming and confusing to initially configure. However, it has a huge number of features and includes free help and technical support. The software has a section for accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, inventory, billing, project costs, general ledger, fixed assets, updates and reporting. Sage Peachtree allows users to automate purchase orders and invoice customers by snail mail or by email. You can also automatically check for common accounting errors. Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 is not available for Macs, but will work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. A demo version is available.
QuickBooks for Mac
Small business accountants using a Mac can use Intuit's QuickBooks. QuickBooks for Mac 2011 allows users to do general ledger accounting, inventory control, reporting and organization. You can put all vendor, customer and employee information in one place and easily track sales, do payroll, track bills, write checks, create invoices and purchase orders and process credit cards. QuickBooks 2011 requires the Snow Leopard operating system for OSX, but allows users to add reminders to iCal, send back-up files to Mobile Me and sync contacts with Mac's Address Book. It also allows users to put data into a file format compatible with Windows. As of 2010, QuickBooks 2011 costs $229.95 for new users and $199.95 for an upgrade.
Tryton
Tryton is an open-source application offered under the GPL-3 license. The program is written in the Python programming language and uses PostgreSQL as the engine for the database. Tryton offers a range of functions, including reporting, invoicing, sales and purchase management, inventory and analysis. The Tryton website has full documentation and users can browse the program's own development wiki or the source code repository. Users can download versions for Linux, Windows and Mac, along with set-up tools. If you are interested and want to try it out before downloading the Tryton files, online demos for all versions are also available.
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OsCommerce vs. OpenCartIn Feburary 2016 06,

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The osCommerce Online Merchant features a catalog front end and an administrative back end. This online shopping-cart software installs and updates automatically. OsCommerce features a customizable shopping-cart layout, password-secured administration area and secure SSL transactions. The program supports dynamic images, unlimited products and categories, multiple languages and currencies, and shippable as well as downloadable products. On the front end, osCommerce allows customers to view order history and status, create temporary or permanent shopping carts, search for products and review their orders. Unlike OpenCart, osCommerce allows back-end users to send newsletters to previous customers.
OpenCart Features
Like osCommerce, OpenCart features unlimited products and categories as well as unlimited manufacturers. Similarly, this shopping-cart program supports multiple languages, multiple currencies and user-customized templates. Other shared features include product reviews -- though OpenCart adds product ratings to the mix -- downloadable and shippable product support, multiple tax-rate compatibility, printable invoices and shipping rate calculation. OpenCart features not included with osCommerce include product recommendations for front-end users and sales reports for back-end users.
Add-ons
As open-source software, both osCommerce and OpenCart feature user- and developer-created extensions that add additional functionality. For osCommerce, these add-ons are free to download and add features as diverse as the ability to shop by price, create PDF-format invoices and work with German bank transfers. Some of OpenCart's extensions come at a cost while others are free. Free extensions include category filters, image zoom capabilities and e-commerce tracking. OsCommerce and OpenCart both have thriving user communities that constantly create add-ons, but each program is ready to use “out of the box.”
Availability
Both osCommerce and OpenCart are completely free to download and use. Users can download osCommerce, which is compatible with PHP 4 and above servers and MySQL 3 and above servers, in full-package and update-package forms at the program's official website. Likewise, OpenCart's official site offers the program for no-cost download. OpenCart works with PHP, MySQL, Curl and Fsock servers.
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