My GoDaddy Bookkeeping Experience

Last year I started consulting again. As in the past, I chose to go the independent route and formed an LLC. I wanted an easy way to invoice my clients, track expenses and cash flows, and create reports for taxes. I tested several solutions before settling on a combination of Freshbooks and GoDaddy Bookkeeping. At the time Bookkeeping did not support invoicing but and Freshbooks did not have any sort of tax features. Freshbooks integrated with my bank and business credit card and could import expenses and deposits and Bookkeeping automatically categorized transactions according to IRS approved Schedule-C tax lines. I needed both. I paid for both. It was expensive.

Over the last year GoDaddy added a very capable invoicing feature. So just before it was time to renew the service I decided to connect GoDaddy to my online accounts. I had no problems linking the business credit card account. However, when it came time to link the business checking account I ran into some issues. I opened a ticket with GoDaddy. This is a screen shot of part of the conversation with GoDaddy support.

GoDaddy Bookkeeping

I was stunned. Why? Here's what the GoDaddy Bookkeeping web site promised.

Easy Bookkeeping

I am angry. How useful (or easy) is a business accounting service if "most business accounts are not supported"? Is GoDaddy targeting businesses that are so badly organized they use personal accounts? I want to close the account. But I like the tax accounting feature. Freshbooks doesn't have this and now cost more than Bookkeeping. So I'm stuck with exporting information (QFX from my business checking account and importing into Bookkeeping.

So much for :

There is nothing to download, install, or update. Ever.

An open letter from photographer Scott Wyden to Sony

It is time for Nikon and Canon to listen up.  Your financial charts are going on a downward slope.  You know it and we all know it.  So start paying attention to what your customers want.  Your customers are buying Sony A7 series cameras with the intention of using their Nikon and Canon lenses on it.

You know this.

So why would you not design a camera to compete with it? Why allow your customers to go somewhere else? Scott Wyden via Hey Nikon – Why I Almost Got A Sony A7 & Why It Was Sent Back

I agree with Scott. I'm a Nikon shooter and for the last year I've been trying out various compact systems (aka mirror-less) cameras from Fuji and Olympus -- Olympus OM-D E-M5, Olympus OM-D E-M1, Olympus PEN EP-3, Fuji X-E1,and Fuji X-T1. I'm impressed.

Come on CaNikon. Answer Scot''s questions.

Does the human brain have an off switch?

A scientist at George Washington University may have found the location of the human brain's off switch in the claustrum.

When the team zapped the area with high frequency electrical impulses, the woman lost consciousness. She stopped reading and stared blankly into space, she didn't respond to auditory or visual commands and her breathing slowed. As soon as the stimulation stopped, she immediately regained consciousness with no memory of the event. The same thing happened every time the area was stimulated during two days of experiments. New Scientist