It’s Like Mint… For Businesses

As I was surfing through Robert Scoble’s blog, I found an article that only caught my eye because it mentioned my home state of North Carolina. (“There’s tech companies here?”, ha) Any-hoo, a couple of guys that were fed up with Quickbooks, an accounting software suite from Intuit designed to help businesses track their expenses, deciding to create their own. Firelace, the name of their company, created Merchant’s Mirror that most importantly, is cross-browser supported (unlike Quickbook’s requirement of IE 6).

The fundamentals behind Merchant’s Mirror are similar to other traditional accounting systems. It allows you to create customers and vendors, add users, send invoices, enter payments, and much more. The difference comes in two ways. First, Merchant’s Mirror is web-based. That means it is available to you from any Internet-connected computer. It also means that your data is automatically backed up and managed without you having to lift a finger.

The cool thing about Merchant’s Mirror is that it’s 100% web based. Now I don’t have to explain why this is a benefit (access from anywhere and ease of sharing). I have since contact the developers of this interesting software package to see if I can hop on board to do an official review for you guys. Stay posted.

~Cory