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I have started a new business, and have already covered a lot of the basic startup areas for my new company. I have my articles of organization and have registered for an LLC. With the help of my wife (who’s an accountant) I have been able to get things setup professionally and quickly.

 

I am at a point where I am looking for a company wide software solution that will grow along with my business. I came across a good article that outlined a lot of the things I was wondering about http://www.business-tracking-software.com/articles/business-tracking-software/

 

I am interested to know what other people are using for their business. I am also curious to know your overall thoughts on the software you work with. (easy to use or not?) I also need something that will apply to more areas of my business than just accounting.

 

I would like to be able to place orders, track inventory and invoicing, create help desk tickets and log them, and have calendar functions for project management and scheduling.

 

Based on the road map I have created for my company all of these features will be important for growth in the next year. Any advice or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

 

Bill

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http://www.shipwire.com for order fulfillment, inventory and growing your business in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

OK enough about us.

There are many shopping carts, order and inventory solutions. you need to decide on whether you want simple (paypal cart), hosted, open source or software you install on a server.  Or if you want an all in one solution something like NetSuite (can be expensive).  We`ve got a list we work with; but, it can serve as a nice list of places to start.  http://www.shipwire.com/help/c/how-it-works/carts/

calendars and such - google aps for your domain is nice

Salesforce.com has lots of modules if your willing to pay a bit - help tix, etc.

Many forum software products are free and you can use them for support case tracking too.  phpbb is one option.  I`ve seen others. 

My recommendation is look at a company that you like to buy from and see how they handle some of these processes.

Nate







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One of the problems with a "suite" that would do all that you`re looking for, is that they`re pretty much always developed for the large networks in an enterprise. In other words, they run on a server, and you get all the administrative issues of network applications. They`re expensive due to that assumption of large-scale distribution.

As Nate said, a good shopping cart usually will track most of what you need in terms of sales, customers, transactions, and maybe inventory. What other sort of business management problems are you looking to solve?

For my personal consulting practice I try to use Quicken for most of my accounting / invoice needs. I don`t know much about help desk tickets and so forth though :(

However, I do strongly recommend a business graphics product (my employer, SmartDraw, makes one.) I`ve found that business graphics software is pretty invaluable when it comes to communication, both with clients and co-workers, and is also a pretty good tool for self-management. I work in marketing so I tend to rely heavily on flowcharts to explain my marketing processes to my own co-workers and I also use mind maps extensively for brainstroming. It might seem like a bit of a gimmick to use business charts and such, but I`ve found them to be helpful.


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Aaron Stannard
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A good business software really helps to make business more popular. Thanks a lot for sharing your post.

 

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How about a good payroll/invoicing software. That is really needed right? :)

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Off the top of my head the most flexible system that I've used would probably be sales force, so many add ons, I think literally would grow with the business. It was the second system I tried when I first set up my stage lighting firm.

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Best business software for a growing.

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