I found QB to be limited. They may have fixed these complaints since I purchases it last, but here is my review:

QB limits the number of transactions you can store in your file. When you hit the limit - AND THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL HOW CLOSE YOU ARE - you will simply have to stop using it and clear out some old customers or transactions or whichever one of the limits you hit. My accountant dislikes QB because it does not adhere to his ideas of accounting principles. I am not an accountant so I can't say more. Remote automation of quickbooks is not possible without a third party tool.

Peachtree is pretty good, but limited in other ways. The field sizes are small for foreign addresses - not good for international business. Peachtree makes automation somewhat easier than QB.

We are switching to , Lord Protect Us, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2003 because it makes automation VERY easy from within .NET. All tables, stored proceedures, etc are available from within the API. Amazing really (No, I don't work for MS). Field lengths are good and it appears to do a proper job of double entry bookkeeping using the SQL server DB it uses. It is also cheap right now. MS SBA does not do payroll, but we use another program for that anyway.

Good luck. The non-accountants always struggle getting the softare set up right the first time.