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What is the best online solution to accept payments, do book keeping and invoice the customer?


Our service to our customers accumulate during the month and an invoice is sent on a monthly basis. We would like them to settle the invoice via PayPal or credit card. We also want this integrated with our book-keeping solution. I have heard that the options are Freshbooks, Quickbooks, Expensify, Saasu and Xero. Our startup is in Singapore.
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Wray Rives, CPA CGMA
I would recommend a combination of Freshbooks and Waveaccounting.  Freshbooks does an excellent job of handling invoicing and it has an API to integrate with Waveaccounting which will handle all the remainder of your bookkeeping.  Freshbooks will also integrate with Paypal and/or Google Checkout to accept credit cards.
Wray Rives
Catherine Walker, Community Manager at Xero. Here to he...
1 vote by Stephen Valenta
Xero offers invoicing, PayPal integration and bookkeeping. Are you using already using a bookkeeping solution? You can enter and send invoices directly out of Xero, offer a PayPal link for your customers on the invoice, have your PayPal transactions automatically sent into Xero to match up to the invoices, al the while using a double-entry accounting system. If you'd like to see a bit more about how PayPal works with Xero - we have information in our Help Center (http://help.xero.com/#Q_OnlineIn...)
Catherine Walker
I would recommend Freshbooks and Invoicekeeper. Freshbooks http://www.freshbooks.com/ is a paid software and allows limited number of clients whereas InvoiceKeeper http://www.invoicekeeper.com/ is free for lifetime and allows to manage unlimited clients.
Ryan Johnson
Greg Lam, Entrepreneur
It sounds like http://www.freshbooks.com/  is a good solution for you. If you need more comprehensive bookkeeping than FreshBooks can offer, it integrates with many different online accounting software providers.
Greg Lam
Based on your question you are looking for invoice, recurring invoice (subscription), payment and expense tracking as well as online payments. Additional consideration is that you are based in Singapore, so local currency *SGD* must be supported.

There are few considerations when picking the right software:

- Do you need support for multiple taxes like GST and VAT. While it isnt Singapore requirement - it may be if you have clients in other regions.
- How do you plan to support credit cards? Do you already have Paypal Pro account (or regular account) or have a merchant account with agreements to transact credit cards on the web (usually this comes with Authorize.net gateway)
- Do you have one person working on invoicing and book keeping or multiple team members. If so is there role-based entitlements and client permissions.

Some additional information about Sing Invoicing: http://www.easyinvoicesoftware.c...


If you need all/some of the above - recommend trying out system that we've built called BillGrid.com. It excels at the difficult points above while providing Invoice, Estimates, Expense and Time Tracking functionality with advanced customization options and support for online payments and teams. We also have working experience with companies from Singapore.

Hope this helps in your search!
Anton Mar
Reshma Roy, Zoho Books & Invoice Team
You should probably give Zoho Books (http://www.zoho.com/books/ ) a shot. It's an accounting software that also lets you create and send unlimited invoices. Your customers can make full or partial online payment through online gateways like PayPal and Authorize.Net. Once payment is received it'll be recorded in Zoho Books. Sign up for the FREE trial and invite your colleague or accountant to Zoho Books and see if it fits your needs. For any help just pop a mail to support[at]zohobooks.com. If you're just looking for an invoicing solution with all the above needs plus excellent reports and minus the accounting involved then surely Zoho Invoice (http://www.zoho.com/invoice/)  is a good option.

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