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Old 10-26-2003, 11:08 AM
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Business Software for artists

Hi

Just wondering what, if any, business software you all use as artists.

MS Office seems a little to complex for me and as for sage.........well, i doubt i will be needing to calculate the tax for 2,000 emplyees just yet

To be honest I just a bit sick of all these diaries and scraps of paper with sums on them cluttering my ledger.

Andrew
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Old 10-26-2003, 11:45 AM
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I use Quick Books but Quicken would work too...

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Old 10-26-2003, 03:37 PM
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I use TinyBooks on my mac - it's shareware and does all the basic entry stuff I need. I like it because I can export a basic report by date or department code. There is also Working Artist but I'm not sure what that does. I know it does inventory and sales and stuff, but not sure if it's really accounting. It was too complicated for me personally. And I seem to remember one called Mango or something??? It was discussed quite a long time ago here so if you do a search for Working Artist you should find some old threads describing the software with links to it.

What you could do is just use MS Excel to keep your records. One worksheet for expenses with a column for description, one for the amount, and maybe some for how it was paid if you need it (check, cash, credit, etc.). Then one worksheet for incomings similar to the expenses one. Just transfer the types of columns you have in your ledger into Excel. The one formula you would need would be to add the columns - look up =SUM() in the MS help.

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Old 10-26-2003, 06:48 PM
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I'm not sure whether you're looking for inventory management or accounting. I tried Working ARtist, found it too cumbersome and way more than what I needed. I then went to a spreadsheet on my computer and that was fine but I wanted a list that was available all the time and didn't want to have to print my spreadsheet every time I added something. Finally, I adopted the simplest system of all. For each painting, I make an index card where I record all the details of the painting, where I have shown it, what shows I have entered it in and who sold to. My little box has different sections for 'paintings for sale' and 'sold paintings'. I also keep track of shows and what I've entered in each that way, with an index card for each show. Simple but it really works and is always quickly available.

For accounting, you could try Simply Accounting. It's a nice and simple little accounting program. Although, being an accountant myself, I don't use it for myself. Again, the simplest route. I keep all my sales listed in my 'sales' book. I keep all my receipts in an envelope. At the end of the year, I tally everything up and prepare my profit and loss statement (more loss and profit I must say). For me this is simple as I used to do this for clients all the time, so I still find this the simplest way to do it for myself.
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For inventory/ slide labels/ gallery labels/ mailing list, etc. stuff, eArtist is wonderful! www.artscope.net I love it! I love it! However, it doesn't help with Accounting/ bookkeeping.
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