Wednesday, August 8, 2007

ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE FOR SALONS

Larry, thank you for your blog. It is nice to have an expert that answers questions. I am now renting a booth. Is there software that you recommend to help me organize my books? Maria

Maria, thanks for your kind comments. The program I feel is best for not only booth renters, but also for salons and personal, is QuickBooks. QuickBooks is very easy software to use. We have 99% of our clients on QuickBooks without any real problems.

If you are interested in training, we do a QuickBooks training program over the phone for our clients. To train you we use software so that you can sit at your computer and see how we are entering data etc. We can then watch you enter information so that we know that you are comfortable with the program. We have trained like this hundreds of times and it works very well.

The cost of this program is $400 until November 15, 2007. Between November 15 and April 15 the cost of the training is $600. With this training, one of our staff goes through with you, by phone, all of the details, helps you set up the chart of accounts, shows you how to use the check register, and is available for any follow up questions you might have.

This training is slightly more expensive than QuickBooks classes that are offered but our classes are one on one and are customized just for your business. We have found that the other classes can be confusing in that they are teaching many things, such as inventory and accounts receivable that you do not need to know.

If you are interested in some assistance, please let Amanda at our office know. Our telephone number is 1-800-975-4829, Amanda’s email address is ahansen@kopsaotte.com. As with all of our work we guarantee that you will not only be satisfied, but extremely satisfied with our services or receive your money back.

Larry Kopsa CPA