Web-based Custom Accounting Software in PHP - Customize As Per Your Business

June 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Why Customizing Accounting Software on the Web

Most businesses, accountants and financial auditors are still using old desktop-based accounting software for their accounting needs. This is changing though, and for very good reasons. Most of the major players in the accounting software industry have launched online software-as-a-service solutions allowing customers to pay a monthly fee to get access to their books online. Some businesses are reluctant though, perhaps because it means giving away sensitive business data to a remotely located accounting software development company and its staff. This is not one of the most prominent drawbacks though. What's important is letting the user of the software do things faster by customizing the software to suit the needs of the user's company.

How Can Accounting Software be customized?

By developing accounting software using well-known, stable and secure open source programming language such as PHP, accompanied with a stable database such as MySQL, your company can open the doors to a world of very flexible data management.

What are the Benefits?

The tasks your company's staff is carrying out most frequently can be tailored to save employees time and gather important data that you may not be able to save in a desktop-based accounting application.

Your online accounting application developed in e.g. PHP and MySQL is also very scalable. You can customize user roles, giving certain staff or contractors access only to the data they need. Your application can also be linked with third party systems that your company may be using such as CRM applications, inventory software, payroll software and much more.

How do I Kick-off a Development Process?

The best way to get started is to talk with web application development companies. You will need to:
•   review what processes are most important to your company when it comes to your current accounting software and what could be improved
•   what could help you save time (linking together with other software, handling multiple currencies automatically and the like)
•   who are the stakeholders and what user roles need to be set up in the software

Note down your ideas in a requirements document and start talking with suppliers! You can save a considerable amount of time and money by following the trend in customizing and moving your software online.

Litebreeze is the custom PHP Business Application development company, who provides high professional PHP programmers to the clients. For more details visit us on http://www.litebreeze.com/ and also see our portfolio at http://www.litebreeze.com/Portfolio

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LiteBreeze is an India-based, Swedish-owned PHP web development company developing customized PHP web applications.