Bookkeeping

The best payroll software for a small business, as of November 2026, comes down to headcount, how many states your team lives in, and how much HR help you want. If you just need to pay a handful of people, the providers that publish prices (Square Payroll, Gusto, OnPay, QuickBooks and Justworks) land between $65 […]

Gusto and Rippling both handle payroll, but they’re built for different company sizes and different appetites for complexity. Gusto is transparent, self-serve, and priced for small teams. Rippling is a modular HR/IT/payroll platform priced with custom quotes, built for companies that need employee devices, app provisioning, and payroll under one roof. I run E-Commerce Paradise, […]

Gusto and QuickBooks Payroll sit at nearly identical price points, but they optimize for different things, Gusto for HR depth and employee experience, QuickBooks Payroll for zero-friction accounting sync. I run E-Commerce Paradise, where I teach high-ticket dropshipping, and here’s exactly where each one wins. Get Real HR Tools, Not Just Payroll Processing Gusto’s Simple […]

Gusto is the default recommendation for small business payroll, but it’s not the right fit for every team, some need deeper HR-plus-IT automation, some need a lower price floor, and some have already outgrown what any SMB-focused platform offers. I run E-Commerce Paradise, where I teach high-ticket dropshipping, and here are the best Gusto alternatives […]

Gusto pricing, as of November 2026, is $49 a month plus $6 per person on Simple, $80 plus $12 per person on Plus, and $180 plus $22 per person on Premium. For 5 people that is $79, $140 and $290 a month before add-ons, and for 15 people it is $139, $260 and $510. I […]

Most ecommerce store owners end up paying at least a few contractors, a VA, a designer, an ad-buyer, long before they hire a single employee. I run E-Commerce Paradise, where I teach high-ticket dropshipping, and here’s exactly how to pay 1099 contractors correctly, without creating a tax headache for yourself in January. Collect W-9s and […]

Sending invoices should not be the part of your business that eats up hours every week. I have worked with hundreds of ecommerce store owners through Ecommerce Paradise, and one of the most common problems I see is people cobbling together invoices in Google Docs or Word templates, then chasing payments manually through email. That […]

If you run a small business or an ecommerce store, getting your books right is not optional. I have seen too many store owners lose thousands of dollars because they were tracking everything in spreadsheets or, worse, not tracking at all. The right accounting software saves you time, keeps you compliant at tax season, and […]

FreshBooks is a friendly invoicing tool, and its pricing page makes the entry price look small. The Lite plan shows a promo of $4.60 a month for the first 4 months, then goes to $23 a month, and it covers only 5 billable clients. If you send invoices, quotes, or deposits to more than a […]

If you’re choosing between FreshBooks and FreeAgent for your accounting and invoicing in 2026, you’re really choosing between two platforms that have evolved to serve different geographic markets and business structures. FreshBooks is a US-based, globally available cloud accounting platform built for freelancers, service businesses, and small ecommerce operators across multiple countries with a feature-tier […]