“Our business has recently expanded to four separate locations, rendering our previous desktop-based Peachtree software extremely inefficient. Oracle Small Business Suite is perfect for us. Now, all four offices are on the same page at all times. We don’t have to send bills and expense reports back and forth for approval and payment, which drastically reduces our mailing costs. The real savings, though, are in employee-time: we don’t have to re-enter data at every office anymore and we don’t have to reconcile each office’s books with the others’ at the end of the month.

“There isn’t a specific part of the Suite that we like or use more than another—we like it all. What we really like is that it’s all in one package, working together. We’re especially looking forward to having our Web Store go up next month, which we’ve never been able to do before.”

“As a consultant, I’m always on the road, so I knew that Web-based accounting was the way to go. I was wasting too much time sending QuickBooks files to my CPA. I tried Microsoft Money when I found out it had some Web capabilities, but that turned out to be a disaster—it was way too complicated. Oracle Small Business Suite has the right combination of power and simplicity.

“Online Bill Pay is great because I can pay bills wherever I am (even in Sweden!). And since it’s integrated with the Accounting module, the second I pay a bill, the bookkeeping is done. The books are always up-to-date and my CPA logs in whenever she needs to check up on things.

“Oracle Small Business Suite has saved me a lot of time and hassle, which is very important because I can’t do my consulting work when I’m taking care of the books.”

“As an importer and distributor of specialty children’s strollers, we find Oracle Small Business Suite to be a great value for the money, considering all that it offers and how well integrated it is. I love that order processing can be done almost entirely from start to finish within the system. I enter orders or they’re made through our Web Store and from there, it’s automated: credit card processing, invoicing, inventory deduction. Even our purchasing is simplified, since I just e-mail our suppliers in New Zealand when I hit my re-order levels.

“Oracle Small Business Suite saves me so much money because I don’t need a large staff to handle paperwork and data entry each step of the way. And the savings will grow tremendously as my business grows—my staff is free to do useful things like selling, instead of handling the back office. Another benefit is easier travel between my two offices in different states: I don’t need to bring a laptop because I can access the same data from the computers that already exist at each location.”

“When we started Firedog Technology Solutions, we wanted an accounting solution that was built on a standard database, so that we could have access to the raw data when we needed it. The common systems out there that met this criterion were selling for up to $2,000 a module, not including the servers we'd have to purchase to run them. We knew we were on the right track when we found out about Oracle Small Business Suite-it was much less expensive and built on Oracle database software.

“The time savings have been tremendous. Just being able to e-mail invoices with a mouse click from within the system is huge: no more printing, envelope-stuffing, and postage. And our clients love it! The time tracking feature is very valuable; keeping expense reports and client billing straight is a snap. I also like being able to access the system from home. We save a lot of system-administration time, too, because we don't have to back-up the data, not to mention what we save by not having to buy back-up tapes. Since we copy our information to our local drives once a week, we're confident that we have access to our data if we had to have it. The Electronic Bill Pay feature saves us hours every week. We'll probably convert a lot of our clients to Oracle Small Business Suite.”

“We had previously used Peachtree and wanted to switch to a Web-based solution. After looking at several options, we decided to go with Oracle Small Business Suite because it was the most comprehensive and user-friendly.

“The Suite has saved us thousands of dollars a year. Many of us are on the road a lot, so the expense reporting feature has made reimbursement much easier. Before, expense reports were filled out by hand, turned in when employees got back to the office, then coded and entered by accountants that we had to pay to come in. Now, employees can submit them from wherever they are and I can approve them in minutes.

“Our accounting costs have fallen about 60%. Not only do we not need them to come into the office to do entry work, we don’t need them to run detailed reports for us—the Suite makes it so easy, we can do it ourselves. And we no longer have to shut down the books so that they can work on them (either by coming in or by us sending them the data); with Oracle Small Business Suite, everyone can work with the data simultaneously. Thank you NetLedger!”

“I was looking for a business management solution that allowed my accountant and me to work with the books from anywhere. With Oracle Small Business Suite, I no longer have to set up meeting times or e-mail/fax data to her. Oracle Small Business Suite also allows my employees to make entries that I can check whenever I want and wherever I am.

“My business currently only needs the Accounting and Payroll modules, but those two alone have made running my business so much easier and cost-effective. I used to have my accountant handle payroll, but now I do most of it because it’s so easy with Oracle Small Business Suite. I’ve even cut checks from a hotel room while traveling—one of my employees printed them out at the office and it was done.

“It takes so much less time, work, and paper to get things done now—fewer employees needed to post entries to the books, less paperwork during auditing. Oracle Small Business Suite simply makes it easier to run and grow my business.”