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jwieczorek — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:09:24 -0000

Leonard, if you like Relenta you should also check Funnela (http://funnela.com)
Funnela was created to help small business achieve their daily tasks without the need for extensive, difficult and expensive CRMs.
Easy import data from Highrise & CSV files, share easily any data across the company and all information about your activities with the customer is in one place.
Free account will never expire and paid plans starts at $15/month.

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Eric Case — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:53:55 -0000

TechCU's been great so far, but we're not yet using it for payroll and merchant stuff. They send/receive ACH which we've done a few times, and it's worked great. So has hooking it up to our own bank accounts so we don't need to write checks to ourselves. Don't have IRA stuff going yet - was hoping to be able to do that through Vanguard (who we used at Google), but we're not quite there yet. ;)

Cheers,
-E

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lhl — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:44:41 -0000

Oh yeah, to clarify, I had gone ahead and set up UserVoice, and while that sort of functionality is great for sites w/ many users for gathering feedback, I'm not as sure whether that dynamic applies to a small business w/ a limited number of clients. (Probably not)

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bertrandom — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:49:27 -0000

Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze) is a pretty polished collaboration tool with video/audio conferencing and whiteboarding and there's nothing to install, each user just needs to have Flash. Kinda pricey, though, I believe it starts at $39/month.

I use the free version of Toggl (http://www.toggl.com/) for time tracking, it has a desktop client.

I also have the usual love/hate relationship with Basecamp.

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Rahul — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:49:06 -0000

Hey checkout DeskAway! Its a great tool for managing projects & team & collaborate easily with the team as well as clients. It also has the time sheet to track the time & also you can share the projects among the team & clients. You can Export/Backup your complete project. Also the new exciting feature for Basecamp users, you can import your Basecamp data to DeskAway using the Baseescape feature. It also provides a social network & Twitter like interface added with SSL Security. Moreover the free account will never expire.
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lhl — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:33:03 -0000

Yeah, I was curious that more people who I knew were making some of the same decisions hadn't been posting about what they've discovered, so I thought I'd kick off the conversation a bit. :)

How do you like TechCU? Do you use their payroll, merchant processing? Do they do electronic payments/ACHs? We're just getting our EIN so haven't actually locked in 100% on the banking yet. Do you guys have SEP/SIMPLE IRA stuff set up?

LessAccounting looks pretty decent - I like the ability to upload scans for expenses...

I took a quick look at Lighthouse, which looks really nice (and the scm integration looks sweet), but for us Fogbugz was a nobrainer since we'd been using it already and the effort tracking is really nice (not a great fit if your doing hourly invoicing or timesheets for freelancing, but for dev projects, is great)

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Eric Case — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:54:35 -0000

Thanks for posting this, Leonard - I've been meaning to do a similar writeup on our blog. So far we're using LessAccounting - http://lessaccounting.com/ - for tracking money stuff, Google Apps and Dropbox, and Technology Credit Union - http://techcu.com/ - for banking. Still undecided on bug trackers, though I'm leaning toward Lighthouse - http://lighthouseapp.com/

Cheers,
-E

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marcusnelson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:06:00 -0000

Thanks for the mention (UserVoice). Thought you might like to know we have a free version available to all small companies looking to get instant feedback from users. Setup is a snap! You'll be on your way in minutes: http://uservoice.com/accoun...

Look forward to your review!

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Scott — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:14:15 -0000

Intuit Online Payroll is super easy to setup and takes care of everything automatlically.

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Ben — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:16:46 -0000

Batchbook.com is a great online CRM

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jeffery — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:21:07 -0000

I use Harvest (www.getharvest.com) for my time management / invoicing and Mint.com for finance management.