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You hold no stock, so inventory tracking is the wrong thing to pay for. A worked margin example showing what each option costs as a share of gross profit.

A ranking with one stated gate: where does inventory tracking start, and what does that tier cost a year at list price rather than at the promotional headline.

Six reasons people leave QuickBooks, and a different named answer for each one, with the year one and year two arithmetic printed out for every option.

Zoho Books free plan is gated at $50K of annual revenue and every Zoho tier carries an annual invoice cap. QuickBooks caps seats instead. Zoho Professional is $480 a year against $1,680 for QuickBooks Plus, and here is what that gap actually buys.

Wave Starter is genuinely free and Wave publishes its card processing rates. QuickBooks publishes none. Here is exactly what the free tier excludes, what Wave Pro at $190 a year buys back, and the point where free stops being cheap.

FreshBooks Lite at $23 a month has no double entry accounting, no bank reconciliation and no accountant access. All three arrive at Plus. Here is what that costs you in year one and year two, against every QuickBooks Online tier at list price.

Xero Early caps you at 20 invoices and 5 bills a month, and QuickBooks caps your seats. Those two gates decide this comparison before price does. Here is the annual cost at list, plus where each one actually wins.

Every QuickBooks plan costed for year one and year two, plus the payroll bundles with a worked three employee example, Solopreneur Lite, the seat ceilings, and an honest list of the fees Intuit does not publish.

QuickBooks Online advertises Simple Start at $19 a month. That is a three month price. Year one is $399 and year two is $456. Here is what the four plans gate, what Intuit will not publish, and who should not buy it.

The full process in order, with Texas and California costed end to end from the regulators’ own fee schedules: eligibility, hours, approved provider, exam, fingerprints, application, broker and first renewal.