Looking for free or very cheap accounting/inventory management software

Stacey , Im looking for the same things you are i believe , i need somthing to record price paid ,price sold , net profit etc , ive checked into Peachtree & Quickbooks , which are all kind of pricey ,but of course there is Ebay , Excel is on Windows Office , which is fairly cheap and not hard to find , but its pretty generic , let me know what you came up with , would you please ?

Our classic Auctiva site has a desktop application called eBud that is still has many users relying on it for post auction management functionality.

If you have specific questions as to what it can do, I'll have the main eBud programmer pop in on here and answer questions for you.

You can download it and find out some more info on the program here:
http://classic.auctiva.com/products/AuctivaEbud.aspx

-Kevin

I know eBay has the sellers assistant but must be subscribed to one of their pay services to get that free. Customer service said to copy and paste the invoice information into Excel. I think you can do the same with paypal. Then you just have to move things around. I guess it is better than having to input it manually.

I checked out eBud and it sounds good but I can't afford it right now. I really don't like products that you have to pay monthly, rather just buy it and be done. Unless someone else can come up with something.

Thanks

Stacey

Looks great , im really looking for something that i can use to mainly keep track of costs though , its got quite a bit more than i need built in to it , and while its comparable in price to similar programs , its really more than i can afford at the moment .
its definitely something to keep in mind though as my business grows and an auto email program becomes neccessary ( Big dreams here LOL )

Two options I can offer:

1) If you can afford Quickbooks and the selling manager on ebay...you've got it made.

2) Can't afford Quickbooks? Get your basic Quicken and you can download everything from PayPal directly into Quicken.

Thanks for the info. I would need to subscribe to a monthly service in order to get selling assistant; which is not feasible right now. Wasn't aware that you could download information into Quicken. Support said that I would have to cut and paste it into Excel.

Thanks

Stacey

I really, really like the auctiva facilities site, but I too want a tool which does what you ask, as well as post sales tracking, automated emails and feedback etc, plus facility to set up and keep track of store items. I tried Auctionsage free for a month, but it is soooooo difficult to navigate.

It looks to me that your Classic Auctiva suite of resources are decidely outdated in comparison to what Free Auctiva can do ........ so what to do? Am I right in this assumption? You have been hinting for months that there is a phase 2 to Auctiva Free - WHEN? and WHAT? I can't wait much longer. I need a solution now!

Yes, phase 2 will include all those post auction management features such as automated emails, feedback, post sales tracking, accounting and reports! All for free! eBud isn't outdated compared to our web-based service because online Auctiva can't even do that stuff yet

BRILLIANT, thanks - but WHEN!

Also - will there be a facility to do all this offline, given that there are ....... occasionally ...... glitches on the auctiva website

That is good to know. Do you have an idea when. I am sure everyone is looking for this solution, yesterday...

Stacey

My sentiments exactly, this is something that is needed right away.

When you guys find a nice, cheap/free and uncomplicated accounting program, please let us all know.

Everything I've looked at has too many features that I don't want. Just give me: PRICE PAID, PRICE SOLD, EBAY CHARGES, PAYPAL CHARGES, SHIPPING AND HANDLING and a way to total them up, and I'd be happy as a clam.

I totally agree. Maybe add in Ebay or Invoice Number, description, date listed, date sold and a way to run reports. And also a way to input none ebay items. Seller's usually use more than one venue; I know I do.

Stacey

Have you guys checked out "Sales Reports" from ebay you can find it under my subscriptions in my ebay. I just signed up for it ..the free one...and its pretty cool. But I'm also looking for something just a little better where I can add my product costs. I like how it shows you your combined ebay & paypal fees for the previous month. Check it out.

This comes recommended from another site I belong to - I'm thinking about giving it a shot:

http://bis.midco.net/rcrothers/

I don't have Excell but I did just download OpenOffice for FREE

I was using Shotting Star and I love the way it automatically grabbed everything from ebay - all I had to do was enter the PP fees myself but they changed their price and its no longer affordable for me.

I have 2 ebay stores and I tried the ebay accounting that load to quickbooks and I really liked it but I used a trial version of quickbooks so now I need to buy the program if I want to continue to use it.

I thought you could buy shooting star. Isn't it $60 to own the software?

I saw that spreadsheet but you have to enter everything manually.

Yes, that is how SS worked but now they raised the price and if you don't pay to update the old version becomes useless - something to do with changing the way they handle things with ebay.

The price they want to update it, its not worth it for me