TinyBooks (currently for Macintosh only) is an ultra-simple accounting and bookkeeping program designed for home and small businesses and perfect for Sole Proprietors.

TinyBooks is a flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping program and the perfect companion to help with taxes throughout and especially at the end of the year. Though designed with small businesses in mind, it can also be used in the home to help with the family finances.

Many tax-related programs (such as TurboTax, or TaxCut) are tied to a particular tax year and must be re-purchased every single year. TinyBooks is NOT tied to a particular tax year. Tax laws may change, but the need to keep track of expenses, income and profits never seems to change, and that is exactly what TinyBooks is all about!

TinyBooks actually works by itself. All you have to do is enter each expense or income item, as it happens, or at month end, and the program calculates everything else, automatically and instantly.

The Accounts dialog and the non-modal Reports window allow you to create Income, Expense and Custom Reports, sorted as desired, and for any time period. TinyBooks also includes a new Bottom Line Report. This report is exactly the report that an accountant would want. There are no parameters required for this report, the program knows exactly how to create it. An end-of-year report is effortless to create.

The new Accounts Dialog not only instantly displays monthly and year-to-date account totals, but now also displays monthly trends (instantly, graphically, intuitively and without any user intervention.) Budgets are also optionally and easily integrated into any account.

TinyBooks also includes a Professional Invoice Printer utility and the invoices are printed on plain white paper, so no expensive third-party forms are required. Totals are automatically calculated and automatically formatted. In version 6 of TinyBooks, the Professional Invoice Printer has been totally revamped. It's now easy to create a multitude of standard and custom forms, such as Invoices, Estimates, Statements, Proposals, and more.

And, of course, transactions can be imported and exported, as desired (for instance, to give to an accountant, or for import into a spreadsheet, etc.) All transactions can be easily sorted by Date, Comment, Check#, Account#, Amount or Type of Transaction (expense or income.)

TinyBooks also supports all kinds of domestic and international taxes, such as Sales Taxes, GST (Goods and Services Tax), PST (Provincial Sales Tax), VAT (Value-Added Tax) and more. TinyBooks can even handle multiple types of taxes at the same time...and all while keeping the program as simple to use as it ever was.

TinyBooks works by keeping track of multiple accounts. There are four basic types of accounts: Deductible Expenses, Non-Deductible Expenses, Taxable Income and Non-Taxable Income. For a typical small business, that's about all that's required. In fact, the non-deductible expenses and non-taxable income accounts are just included for your bookkeeping convenience, as they are not included in profit computations. If you are using this program for home use, rather than as a small business, such account types are very handy. Business Profit is calculated by subtracting the sum of the deductible expenses from the sum of the taxable income. You never have to request a calculation, all calculations are performed instantly any time you add, delete or modify any item.

Note: TinyBooks is a carbonized Apple Macintosh Application and works equally well in both Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X. It also works perfectly on the new Intel-based Macintosh computers.

When you run TinyBooks for the very first time, you will want to create a new set of books (that is, a TinyBooks document) for your company or family for the current year. To do this, choose the NEW item from TinyBooks' File Menu. (The NEW item is a hierarchical menu with two choices. For this tutorial, choose the NEW item that is designated for first-time users.) The "Create New Set of Books Dialog" will then appear. It looks like this...

To create a new set of books, TinyBooks really only needs the following two bits of information...

1 - The Company Name - Simply enter the name of your company (or family.)

2 - The Fiscal Year - Each TinyBooks document handles "the books" for one company (or family), for one year. You must specify the business year that this document covers. Most people accept the default calendar year, running from January to December of the year chosen. In this tutorial, a simple calendar year is assumed.

Note: TinyBooks also supports non-standard Fiscal Years. To choose a non-calendar Fiscal Year, enter the closing month and closing year of your Fiscal Year. Once entered, the program will calculate and display the range of your fiscal year for your verification.

After you enter and double-check the required information, click the SAVE AS button. As with all SAVE AS dialogs, you need to choose a name and a location for this document. TinyBooks will suggest a default name, made from combining the company name and the year but you're free to name it yourself. You might choose a name such as "The Demo Company - Books - 2009". Remember, each document covers one company for one year, so including the name of the company and the year in the name of the document itself is a very good idea.

IMPORTANT NOTE: All of the most important information that TinyBooks knows about your company is stored in this one document that you just created and named. In the future, this is the document that you will double-click to start "doing the books." Unlike other accounting programs that use multiple files to store such information, TinyBooks simply stores everything in this one file. It's easy to find, easy to backup, easy to understand, etc.

Once you save your TinyBooks document (also known as your "set of books"), you'll see an empty Expense/Income Window appear. It will look something like this...

...and, by the way, if the columns you see look a little different than the above picture, it might be because you are showing or hiding the Tax fields (which we'll talk about later.) For now, try pressing Command-T (for "Tax") or choosing the "Show/Hide Tax Fields" from the TinyBooks Utility Menu.

The title of the Expense/Income Window that appears will include the name of your company, the month and year, and the name of the document. The window is empty, because you haven't yet added any expense or income items.

This window, by default, shows the items in the current month according to the date and time set on your computer. To switch to another month, select it in the Month Menu, or use the left/right arrow buttons on the Expense/Income Window, or use the left/right arrow keys on the keyboard.

NOTE: In creating this step-by-step tutorial, I chose to create a set of books for 2009 (using a standard January to December year.)

TinyBooks also relies on the concept of accounts. Accounts are used to track various types of expenses and income. In future years, you might have your own customized set of accounts that you use every year. If so, a customized list of accounts can be imported. But, since this tutorial assumes it is the first time TinyBooks is being used, a Default Account List is automatically created for you. (Later in this tutorial, you'll learn how to customize the Account List.)

Before we start to enter any actual transactions, let's give TinyBooks some other information about our company. Later on, as you'll see, you'll be able to use TinyBooks to create some very professional Invoices, Statements, Proposals, Estimates and more. We need to supply TinyBooks with your company information, such as addresses, phone numbers, web site address, email address, and more. This kind of information is customized using the Company and Tax Information dialog. Select the Company and Tax Information Dialog from the TinyBooks Utility Menu. You should see a dialog that looks something like this...

For this demo, please enter the applicable information for your company. The company name should already be filled in and ready to go, but you can add the address, email, phone, web site and more. Please also note that this is also the dialog in which you customize what kinds of taxes your company must be able to handle. For this demo tutorial, it is assumed, there are no taxes to worry about. But, feel free to enter the names and rates of taxes that are applicable to you. If, for instance, you lived in Massachusetts and had to pay a Sales Tax of 5%, you could enter "MST" (for Massachusetts Sales Tax) as the abbreviation for Tax#1 and you could enter "0.05" for 5% Sales Tax as the Tax Rate#1. In later parts of the tutorial when you are actually entering sample transactions, you can just click the Tax Button on the Item Entry Dialog to automatically calculate the tax fields for you. When this info is entered, just click the SAVE button, and you'll be right back at the main monthly window, ready to enter some expenses and more...

OK, let's enter an actual expense you just paid out (or an income item you just received.) First, if you tried moving around month to month as shown above, make sure you're on the correct month for this expense by checking the title of the window. With the correct monthly window frontmost, just click the Enter New Item button (or press its keyboard equivalent.) When you do, the Expense/Income Item Dialog will appear. It will look something like this...

When the dialog appears, enter the information about the first expense or income item. Use the tab key to move from field to field. The first field "Day" is looking for the day of the month. It will always be today's day, by default, but you can change it if you are entering items on a day other than when the expense or income item occurred.

Then, type a short comment or description about the item in question. (In the future, if the comment you are about to enter is similar or identical to one you entered before, you can choose a comment from the Auto-Comment popup menu on this dialog. The Auto-Comment popup starts out empty, but will grow as new comments are added.)

If a check was involved, you can record its number in the Check# field. Or you can use the field for another use as you see fit. I often use the word "Cash" or "Visa" depending on how I purchased the item in question. In this case, let's assume I just purchased 100 First Class Stamps using cash.

Then, enter the Account# that is associated with the item you are entering.

WAIT! Don't panic! You don't actually have to remember any account numbers. Though you can enter the account number directly, if you happen to remember it, you can also just type the first letter of the account name you want (P for Postage, for instance.) A popup list will appear with a listing of all the accounts, and jump to the first account that starts with the letter you just typed. If the first account that starts with "P" isn't the one you're looking for, press "P" again (in this case) and you'll automatically jump to each account that starts with that letter. Click the OK button or hit RETURN and the account name and number are entered automatically.

Then, enter an amount in dollar and cents, and you're done. Wait! What about those two additional tax fields? For now, let's just ignore them. I'll talk about how to handle all kinds of taxes later on in this tutorial. But, for now, let's just assume there are no taxes associated with this transaction. (See the section called "TinyBooks and Taxes" below, for more information.)

When you click the SAVE button, note that the main monthly window now shows the item you just entered.

In the picture below, if you're observant, you'll see that I've added a few additional transactions too. As you also can see, income items are handled in the same way as expense items.

By the way, when you have more than one expense or income item that you wish to enter at the same time, you could have clicked the "Save, then enter another" button. This would save the item you just finished entering, but leave the dialog open, so that you can easily enter a second (or third, etc.) item. For advanced users (see the Help Text), you could also have chosen the just-entered expense or income item to be a "recurring" item, in which case the item entered would be duplicated automatically in coming months.

Also, notice the bottom of the window instantly calculates many important totals "on the fly" as you enter each item. A quick glance shows a few of the most important totals for the currently displayed month (top row), and for the year-to-date (bottom row.) The totals shown include the Non-Deductible Expenses, Non-Taxable Income, Deductible Expenses, Taxable Income and Profit. Again, if the column headings on your window look different than this picture, just press Command-T (or use the Show/Hide Tax Fields menu item) as desired.

After you've entered a few items (or a few months worth of items), you will likely want to see where you're spending your money, what's working, what's not working, etc. A good place to start is with the Accounts Dialog. Choose the Accounts item from the Utility Menu. You will see a dialog that looks something like this...

This Accounts Dialog shows you all of your accounts, and the totals for each account for the current month and the totals to date (meaning from the beginning of the year through the current month). Also displayed are the percentages that each account represents, compared to the applicable subtotal of that particular type of account. This dialog is also used to add, modify or delete accounts to suit your own business (or family) needs.

Again, if you are very observant, you might notice, that for the purposes of this tutorial, I made a few changes. I made exactly the same entries for February and March that I made for January. I adjusted the Accounts dialog to show March instead of January, and I happened to scroll down to the Online Expenses line. Take a look and you should see that the "year-to-date" total for that account (#17, Online Expenses) seems to be three times as much as the total just for March (in the This Month column.)

In fact, now is a good time to point out the bar charts on the bottom of the Accounts Dialog. As you move up and down the list of accounts, the bar charts will automatically and graphically show you trends on any account. Note in this case, that we are in the month of March, the 3rd month in our year, and "Online Expenses" happens to be highlighted. It's easy to tell at a glance that our monthly online expenses have held constant...since all three green bars are the same height. But, if you look at the Cumulative chart on the right, you'll note that, cumulatively, the trend is rising, as it should, since your total expenses for the year for that account are rising. Try using the arrow keys on the keyboard to move up and down the list of accounts, and watch the charts adjust themselves instantly. Try to get a feel for the bar charts. After a while, you'll be able to spot trends instantly.

No doubt, by default, TinyBooks includes many accounts that you do not need or want. So, feel free to delete them. To delete an account that you don't think you'll ever need, just click its name in the Account List, and click the Delete button. (Obviously, if there's activity in that account, it can't be deleted. You can only delete unused accounts.)

If you wish to rename or add an account, select its name (or a still unused entry in the Account List) and click the "Configure" button. Then enter the new name as desired, but, be sure the newly named account resides in the correct section of the Account List. The position of an account in the list is very important. As you scroll through the list of accounts, you'll see that there's a section for each type of account...Deductible Expenses, Non-Deductible Expenses, Taxable Income and Non-Taxable Income. Make sure you are adding or renaming an account in the proper section as desired.

You might also note that you can set a monthly budget (or projection, or "best guess") for this account in this same "Configure" dialog. Budgets are optional, but so easy-to-use, it's a shame not to try it. A budget is just a guide, it lets you estimate what you think (or hope?) will be a standard monthly amount for some account. You can enter a budget for expense or income accounts. An expense budget might be your best guess as to how much you'll spend for a certain expense type each month. An income budget might best be thought of as your best guess as to how much income of a certain type you believe you should be making each month. Your budget numbers will ONLY appear in these bar charts, as a blue line. Budgets are not included in any displayed or printed reports, they do not affect any calculations, and only serve as a visual guide or reminder to you as to how an account is progressing through the year compared to your expectations.

The little snippet of a picture above shows what the bar charts would look like after you set a budget for a particular account, but haven't yet added any transactions to that account. Imagine that you set up a new Taxable Income account (called Computer Consulting, maybe??), and set a budget (a hopeful best guess) that you would earn, say, $1000.00 each month. Now, imagine that you use the arrow keys on the Accounts Dialog to move to the last month of the fiscal year. We have NOT yet entered any actual income received for this account, so there are no green bars in the bar chart. But, you should be able to see the blue budget lines. The monthly budget is the same each month, so each month on the left hand bar chart shows a constant blue budgeted value...that's how much income you are expecting each month. But, cumulatively, on the bar chart on the right, you can see that a fixed monthly budget results in a linearly increasing step in the blue budget line. When you enter actual income items for this account, you'll be able to see whether the income is above or below expectations (that is, whether the green bars are above or below the blue line.) See the next picture...

In the picture above, imagine that you did have some consulting income in the months of April, May and June in the amounts of $750, $1250, and $1500 but that you didn't have any other consulting income for the rest of the year. Now, again, if we use the right-arrow on the Accounts Dialog to move to the final month of our fiscal year (December, in this case), we would see the picture above. Can you make sense of the charts? On the left, note that the first month that we had income, it was below our best guess (that is, below the blue budget line.) But, the next two months, we were a little above our best guess. On the right bar chart (the one that shows CUMULATIVE totals) it shows the totals levelling off and getting further and further away from our budget (our best guess) because we didn't have any more income of that type since the 6th month of the year. The idea of budgets (estimates, best guesses, projections, etc.) is as valid for income as it is expenses. In this example, we used Consulting Income as an example, but the identical approach is used for expenses too.

Advanced Note: For those curious about some of the technical details, you might note that the minimum and maximum values of the vertical axis of the left and right bar charts might not be the same. The charts should be viewed in relative not absolute terms. The bar charts accurately show trends in relative terms. For absolute numbers, you must view the list of accounts.

Another powerful feature of TinyBooks is its ability to generate standard and custom reports. Usually, the default Expense/Income and Accounts Listings are sufficient for all needs, but when a custom report is needed, TinyBooks is ready. Select the Reports and Transacation Search item from the Utility Menu. A window will appear that looks something like this...

As you see, this feature gives you the flexibility to generate just about any kind of report you can think of. Expense or Income Reports can be generated, for one month, the whole year, or from any date to any other date. You can also request reports that only include certain accounts, or a particular keyword. In the example just above, I searched for any expense, occurring at any time during the year, that had the word "envelopes" in the item's description.

Note that in addition to an Expense or Income Report, TinyBooks also includes a type of report that includes BOTH types of entries (both expense and income.) This makes it extremely easy to view, print or export all the transactions you've made all year (or any portion of a year) without having to re-visit each monthly window.

This dialog is an extremely flexible way to do some very particular kinds of reporting on a chosen subset of your transactions. For instance, if you have carefully included the name (or initials, or ID#, etc.) of a particular client in the Comment/Description field of every entry, it's a piece of cake to get a per-client profitability report. If you perform a "BOTH" (income and expense) type of report, the resulting total represents the total of all income items matching the given criteria minus the total of all expense items matching the same criteria...effectively, the profit generated from a particular client!

Though not shown in this tutorial, please try the "Bottom Line Report" option also. You can find this in the TinyBooks Utility Menu. This is a very simple report that includes just about everything an accountant might request. At the end of the year, this is the report that I would print to help me figure out my taxes. Notice that there aren't any parameters that need to be set. Nice and simple!

TinyBooks also includes a handy Invoice Printer. You can find it in the Utility Menu. It really is quite simple. Many programs that include the ability to print invoices get very complicated very quickly because you often have to deal with paid and unpaid, and sent and un-sent invoices, listing some invoice amounts as part of an Accounts Receivables module and not listing others, etc. With TinyBooks, all the Invoice Printer really does is print professional-looking invoices (and other forms). That's all. Nice and Simple!

Choose Invoice Printer from the Utility menu of TinyBooks, and the Invoice Printer dialog will appear. Here, you can fill in all the various invoice fields (date, customer number, invoice number, mail to, ship to, etc.) and then TinyBooks will print a professional-looking Invoice, and on plain paper too, so there's no expensive forms that need to be purchased.

I'm using the word Invoice a lot, but make no mistake, this dialog is VERY flexible, and you can print Estimates, Proposals, Statements or virtually any other form just as easily as a standard Invoice.

Here's a rather shrunken picture of the Invoice Printer dialog (on the left) and a sample of what a printed invoice might look like (on the right.) This is just the default way that an invoice might look, you have additional customization opportunities as mentioned below.

Note that not only can you customize the information in the standard fields, but you can customize the field names themselves! For instance, if you do not want to use the field called "Salesman", you can easily change the name of that field to Saleswoman, Salesperson, Technician, Broker, Officer, Therapist, etc. If you don't want a "Shipping" field, you can leave it blank, or change it to Postage, UPS, FedEx, or whatever else you might want.

TinyBooks actually automatically stores the last 25 invoices (or other forms) that you've printed. So if you need to print an invoice (or other form) that you know is very similar to one you've printed before, you can just click the arrow buttons on the Invoice Printer dialog until you find a similar looking invoice (or other form) to the one you know you want to print. Modify a field or two as desired, and click the Print button. Voila! You get a professional-looking invoice (or other form) with hardly any work. The Invoice Printer dialog also includes a few buttons to speed up some standard chores...one button will automatically insert today's date, another button will automatically copy the "Bill To" name and address fields to the "Ship To" name and address fields just to save you typing.

Advanced Note: You might also like to know that you can customize the look of the invoice (or other form) so that it matches the "style" of your company. TinyBooks uses the information in the Company and Tax Information dialog (in the Utility Menu) to print the "Company Area" of an Invoice (or other form.) It will use your company name, address, phone, website, etc. But, if you have a standard company font, or wish to include a custom company logo on the invoice (or estimate), you can do that too. TinyBooks has a facility where if you include a picture (PICT or JPG) that includes this information, TinyBooks will print that picture in the Company Area of the invoice (or other form) instead of printing the information on its own. Please see the Help Text in TinyBooks itself for more detailed information.

TinyBooks now supports taxes of all kinds, for virtually all countries. It supports Sales Tax, GST (Goods and Services Tax), VAT (Value Added Tax), PST (Provincial Sales Tax) and more.

TinyBooks now allows you to enter, if needed, two different types of taxes on every single transaction...known as Tax#1 and Tax#2. When you enter a new income or expense item, you will note that the dialog includes two tax fields. It's up to you how you want to define these two fields. If taxes are not a concern for you, you can, of course, ignore these fields. But, if you are faced with Sales Taxes, or GST, PST (or whatever), you can use these two tax fields to account for taxes taken in and taxes paid out.

The names of the taxes and actual tax rates applicable to your company can be customized in the Company and Tax Information Dialog, described above, and available in the TinyBooks Utility Menu.

If the transaction you are entering is an Expense, any tax information you enter is considered as a tax that is paid out. If the transaction you are entering is an Income item, any tax information you enter is considered as a tax that you have received.

Take a look at the end of the list of the Accounts in the Accounts dialog, and you will see that TinyBooks will automatically tally for you on a monthly and year-to-date basis the total taxes taken in and paid out, for both types of taxes.

Depending on your circumstances and the country, state and/or province you live in, you might want to use the Tax#1 field for Sales Tax, and ignore Tax#2 field. Or, you might want to record GST for Tax#1 and PST for Tax#2. Whatever your needs, TinyBooks should be able to handle it.

Note: In the Utility Menu of TinyBooks, there is a menu item called "Show/Hide Tax Fields". If the Main Monthly window or the Reports window is frontmost, you can use this menu item to show or hide the two tax fields associated with every expense or income item. In fact, when you choose to show the tax fields, TinyBooks temporarily makes room for the tax fields by truncating the Comment or Description field. This is for display purposes only. The Comment is not actually truncated. If the monthly items or reported items are saved, printed or exported, all fields are included in their entirety.

Requirements: Requirements: TinyBooks is a carbonized Macintosh application. It runs on a vast array of Macintosh computers, both new and old. As a carbonized application, TinyBooks will actually work with Mac OS's as old as Mac OS 8.6 or Mac OS 9, as long as Apple's CarbonLib extension (v1.6 or greater) is present. TinyBooks also works perfectly with the very latest Mac OSX and Intel-based Macintosh computers using Mac OSX's built-in Rosetta.

Version 1.0 - January 17, 2003

Version 1.01 - January 18, 2003 - Changed a very geeky printer error message into English, and added a pointer to the TinyBooks web page to the program itself.

Version 1.02 - January 28, 2003 - Corrected a bug that resulted in account lists being shown in mixed fonts and sizes. Also added a little online help, and some cosmetic improvements.

Version 1.03 - February 3, 2003 - Added in-dialog help, cosmetic improvements, and fixed a bug that resulted in saved files (in OSX only) to be saved in the parent of the directory chosen, instead of the actual chosen directory.

Version 1.04 - April 17, 2003 - Added some cosmetic improvements to Income, Expense and Account lists, and fixed a bug that prevented Copy and Paste keyboard equivalents from being used within TinyBooks.

Version 1.05 - April 19, 2003 - Changed mono-spaced font from Monaco to Courier New (the automatic handling of ligatures in OSX was causing a problem.)

Version 1.06 - May 5, 2003 - Added the ability to handle non-calendar fiscal years, interface enhancements, and a preferences dialog.

Version 1.07 - May 19, 2003 - Added a non-modal help dialog, updated contact and web site info, eased online registration, etc.

Version 1.08 - June 13, 2003 - Printed, custom reports now include the criteria used to generate the reports.

Version 1.09 - October 23, 2003 - Monthly lists of income and expense items can now be re-sorted to display by date (formerly, they remained in the order of data entry.)

Version 1.1.0 - December 10, 2003 - Improved handling of international currencies.

Version 1.1.1 - December 16, 2003 - Added instantaneous tally of monthly expenses, income and profit

Version 1.1.2 - January 22, 2004 - Added a few cosmetic touches, improved new set of books document creation, etc.

Version 1.1.3 - January 28, 2004 - Fixed column heading alignment on Interim Expense and Income printouts.

Version 1.1.4 - February 10, 2004 - TinyBooks was a bit of a "processor hog"...that is now fixed.

Version 1.1.5 - March 23, 2004 - Enhanced keyboard equivalents...now arrow keys work as one might hope (up/down arrows move up and down the current monthly list, left/right arrows move month-to-month.) Fixed a "roaming icon" problem where a saved TinyBooks document might change its position in the Finder.

Version 2.0.0 - April 5, 2004 - A MAJOR UPDATE - Improved and enlarged the Accounts Dialog; added new icons for all file types; enlarged and added to the Help window; the main monthly window is now resizeable and shows "on-the-fly" calculations of both monthly and year-to-date totals; improved the Utility Menu so applicable items can be used even when a TinyBooks document is not open; added a Print Interim Mileage Form to the Utility Menu; improved default day determination on expense/income entry; the Create Custom Reports dialog is now modeless allowing easy switching from window to window; added a new type of report which can be used to view, print or export all transactions (expense or income) for any time period; improved handling of non-standard fiscal years; improved the default document naming convention; added the ability to handle recurring expense and/or recurring income items; added ability to create a TinyBooks v2 document from a TinyBooks v1 document (leaving original untouched); various other internal, cosmetic and interface improvements.

Version 2.0.1 - April 27, 2004 - Added a "Safety-Backup" protection preference, improved the help, fixed a bug whereby a new document window might appear behind the help window instead of in front of it.

Version 2.0.2 - June 11, 2004 - Improved window handling (TinyBooks now remembers all main window/dialog positions and sizes.) This version also adds a new preference allowing the user to personalize the name of the Safety-Backup file.

Version 2.0.3 - June 29, 2004 - Added Save As Text (TAB-delimited) to Accounts Dialog. Added new preference for default day determination when entering new items.

Version 2.0.4 - July 18, 2004 - Enhanced date-sorted and account-sorted custom report capability

Version 2.0.5 - August 31, 2004 - Improved file error handling and added display of current month in fiscal year to the Accounts dialog.

Version 2.0.6 - December 3, 2004 - Added a "Print Full Year Expense/Income Entry Forms" item to the Utility Menu, improved help text, etc.

Version 2.0.7 - January 3, 2005 - Improved the ease of data entry in the Amount Field of the "Enter New Expense Dialog", other minor changes, etc.

Version 2.0.8 - February 6, 2005 - Improved the ability to EXPORT information from the Accounts and Reports windows to tab-delimited text files (for import to spreadsheets, etc.)

Version 2.0.9 - March 8, 2005 - Improved the Accounts Dialog: added the easy ability to move forward and backward one month at time, and added columns to show the monthly and year-to-date percentage each account represents compared to the applicable totals, etc. (Simply put, it's now easier to see where the money's going, and where it's coming from!)

Version 2.1.0 - March 13, 2005 - Fixed a bug where it was possible that the first title line of a printed or exported Account listing could show the month of the underlying Expense/Income window, rather than the month chosen on the Account dialog. (The data itself was correct, but the title could have been wrong.)

Version 3.0.0 - July 4, 2005 - A MAJOR UPDATE - Added a new Professional Invoice Printer, added fully-automatic Account Charting with built-in support for budgets, increased the width of Comment/Description and Check Number fields, increased the maximum number of transactions per month, etc.

Version 3.0.1 - August 12, 2005 - Added the ability to duplicate an existing item in the Monthly Expense/Income windows, and improved the ability to personalize printed invoices.

Version 3.0.2 - December 7, 2005 - Added a new Help Topic called "Moving to a New Year", and a new Preference item related to saving keystrokes in data entry.

Version 3.0.3 - January 8, 2006 - The Professional Invoice Printer was made just a little smarter. Now, if there is no "Ship To:" information provided by the user, the "Ship To:" section of the invoice will not be printed. This change was frequently requested by those businesses that more frequently wish to produce invoices for services performed, as opposed to products shipped.

Version 3.0.4 - January 15, 2006 - Improved the "New..." dialog; updated help text; added easy import of previous year's information (name, address, email, phone, web, accounts, budgets, invoices, etc.); added Import Invoices to Utility Menu, etc.

Version 3.0.5 - February 22, 2006 - Improved Copy/Paste capability from, to and within TinyBooks.

Version 3.0.6 - March 17, 2006 - Improved Professional Invoice Printer, improved Enter Expense/Income item dialog, improved ease of entry of recurring expense and income items, updated help text, etc.

Version 3.0.7 - April 25, 2006 - Improved the export of reports as tab-delimited text, etc.

Version 4.0.0 - September 15, 2006 - A MAJOR UPDATE - Added intuitive support for handling virtually any kind of taxes from any country, including State Sales Taxes, GST (Goods and Service Taxes), PST (Provincial Sales Taxes), VAT (Value Added Taxes) and more. Added support for international dates as MM/DD or DD/MM. Added ability to export and import transactions. Added ability to move a transaction from one month to another. Added cosmetic and functional improvements to the Professional Invoice Printer. Increased maximum number of monthly transactions. Improved Help Text and added the ability to copy the complete text (for viewing elsewhere, printing, etc.) Improved the creation of safety backups. Improved the ability of TinyBooks to import settings from previous years (so setting up the books for a new year is quick and easy.) And more...

Version 4.0.1 - October 15, 2006 - Revised help text, simplified various dialogs, improved Reports window, etc.

Version 4.0.2 - November 15, 2006 - Vastly simplified and enhanced the creation of a set of books (for both first-time and long-time users.)

Version 4.0.3 - March 15, 2007 - Improved window handling, copy and paste, keyboard equivalents, etc.

Version 4.0.4 - April 7, 2007 - Added the ability to sort reported items by check number to the Reports window.

Version 5.0.0 - July 2, 2007 - A MAJOR UPDATE - Added the ability to print Estimates as well as Invoices; Invoices now include 10 description lines and 1 total line with auto-calculated and auto-formatted amount fields on each line; Transactions in all Monthly Windows are now easily sorted by Date, Comment, Check#, Account#, Amount or Type (expense or income); a new Bottom Line Report has been added ("exactly the report that your accountant would want"); the allowable Comment width for each transaction has been increased by approximately 50%, an Auto-Comment popup menu has been added to the Enter Expense/Income Dialog to allow easy entry of Comments that are identical to comments previously entered; etc.

Version 5.0.1 - July 13, 2007 - A Minor Update with MAJOR Importance - TinyBooks can now easily convert all TinyBooks documents created with previous versions of TinyBooks to the latest format. This allows anyone who is running any older version of TinyBooks from version 1 through version 4 to immediately enjoy all the advanced features of this latest version of TinyBooks.

Version 5.0.2 - July 22, 2007 - Added keyboard equivalents to all items in the new Sort Menu, and improved the Auto-Comment Popup Menu.

Version 5.0.3 - April 20, 2008 - Added an indication of the Fiscal Year to the top line of generated reports, added a new preference allowing auto sort of transactions immediately upon entry, added a monthly budgets column to the Accounts Dialog and associated reports, etc.

Version 5.0.4 - May 20, 2008 - A quick BUG FIX release. With the right, but luckily rarely used sequence of steps, it was possible to put TinyBooks into a mode where mouse clicks would be ignored in the main window. That is now fixed. (This is a bug that has haunted the author for a very long time, and it is a pleasure to squash the bug once and for all!)

Version 6.0.0 - August 28, 2008 - A MAJOR UPDATE - Added Auto-Comment and Auto-Check# features, Revamped the Reports and Transaction Search Window (allowing easy per-client reporting), Added Find and Find Again to monthly windows, Added Invoice/Estimate/Statement/Proposal Customization, Improved Multi-Country Tax support (with automatic tax calculations), and much more.

Version 6.0.1 - September 3, 2008 - A quick BUG FIX release - Fixed a bug in the Check# Popup Menu, and fixed a spelling error in the How To Update help text.

Version 6.0.2 - April 17, 2009 - A relatively minor update - Added 'PayPal' to the Automatic Check Popup Menu, fixed a bug where an exported Bottom Line Report would mistakenly duplicate the Total column, and added a 'Freeze AutoComments' menu item to the Utility Menu (allowing a user who is satisfied with the existing set of remembered comments to freeze the list just as it is.)

• "Looks like TinyBooks is just what I need."
• "I've been looking for a simple program like this for a year or more. I don't need all the bells and whistle of MYOB, etc. I have my normal tax stuff, and as a writer, I keep track of income and expenses. This is terrific. Thanks."
• "WORKING WITH YOUR PRODUCT AND I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. I REALLY THINK THIS IS GOING TO WORK FOR ME. I'LL GIVE YOU AN A+ FOR SUPERIOR. THANKS"
• "I love the simplicity, nice software!"
• "I also love your tiny book thing, just enough for the small club I belong to."
• "great little program. It is so easy to use. I have quickbooks, but it is such a pain. This program does what I want easily."
• "Just wanted to let you know how FANTASTIC TinyBooks is! I highly recommend it for any small business or self-employed person. Thanks so much for making such a great little application!!!!"
• "I love TinyBooks!"
• "I downloaded TinyBooks last night and really like it. I'm no accountant, and it is nice and simple and I like your friendly, low-key approach."
• "Great tech service"
• "it is such a help, I can't thank you enough"
• "Seems just what I need. Ken, you have done an excellent job on this!"
• "The software seems to be working fine, easy to use, even for an arithmetically challenged person like me!"
• "I like it a lot. It thinks like I do."
• "Your TinyBooks is wonderful, elegantly straight-forward in a world of overly complex programs."
• "Tinybooks is the most intelligently designed small business single entry bookkeeping program available...and I've seen and tried plenty of programs since the early 1990s."
• "Please keep on keeping Tinybooks simple, uncluttered, small, and fast."
• "Nothing beats simplicty."
• "I love this program. Have used the Dome system in my small business for over 20 years. Could never figure out Quickbooks or those other big programs but yours is just the ticket!! Thank you for your creation."
• "everyone told me I would have to buy quick books or quicken or something of the sort by a huge company ... Intuit? HA! Not if I can help it!"
• "Excellent lil' app! Simple and easy to use... it's so easy to use and so uncomplicated it fits nicely in that niche for home/soho usage."
• "I have Quicken... I see it on the shelf from my desk... that's where it will remain until my studio grows beyond what it is now. Your app will do fine for me..."
• "TinyBooks is definitely my speed and just what I needed. Thanks for writing it."
• "Thanks for the continued refinement of a wonderful program! TinyBooks has had a very positive effect on my record keeping and hence -- my sanity."
• "In any case I don't know how I got through taxes without TinyBooks. Many thanks and best regards....."
• "Excellent customer service! Who says good software only comes from big companies? :-)"
• "My accountant loves my new attention to detail -- thanks to TinyBooks!"
• "Just wanted to let you know I think TinyBooks is great! It does exactly what I needed."
• "I run a small business from a home office, and I only need to take my figures to my tax man - TinyBooks is perfect."
• "I really appreciated even more your sense of responsibility to your product, and work and customers. I continue to find TinyBooks the answer to my simple sole proprietorship needs."
• "Thanks for the update, I really like TinyBooks. My last company had 20 employees and as accounting functions were fairly involved, I came to know all of the aggravations of bookkeeping. My current company has 2 employees and really appreciate this fast unbloated program. I looked at the free trial version of QuickBooks pro and didn't even want to bother learning it. So glad I came upon you."
• "This year's tax reporting was much less worrisome thanks to TinyBooks."
• "Excellent customer service!"
• "Very Nice! Thanks so much for the great product update and support"
• "Thanks for all the improvements in TinyBooks 2.0.0! That must have taken alot of time work!"
• "Fantastic!!! :) THANK YOU! Your directions worked. Whew! What a relief !"
• "I just read your press release on MacCentral and wish to offer my congratulations. As a former, 10 year vet of Intuit, I am happy to see another entry in the market with a passion for helping small business, particularly in the Macintosh market. This marketplace needs more innovation, particularly from new players such as you. I wish you success with your venture."
• "Thanks Ken for the free update! I am excited about using tinybooks for my small lawn care business. In the past I have tried other programs but most are way too much for my needs. Just need a record of $ in and $ out. Keep up the good work and I will tell my cohorts in the lawn biz about tinybooks."
• "This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! I purchased MYOB First Edge and it's too complicated."
• "Thanks again for such an intuitive program."
• "such a neat little program."
• "thanks a million. wonderfully useful little app"
• "Wow !!! I was reading the May 2004 issue of MacWorld and came across your TinyBooks review. Thats just what I have been looking for for about 3 years now. All the other programs I've tried are overkill and have a steep learning curve."
• "Your website description of TinyBooks is EXCELLENT. All software companies should describe their products like you do. The illustrations are great too !"
• "I would like to commend you on your wonderful software and the very impressive customer service. I did a lot of research in finding an easy to use yet appropriate accounting software for home and business. Yours was the only to have consistently good customer reviews and built for OSX."
• "I love simplicity and TinyBooks is very simple so far. I just messed with it for 10 minutes and I think I already know 75% of the program."
• "thanks for all your help! After downloading TinyBooks, I think it's just what I was looking for."
• "My Tinybooks works great as is. I even export the data into Excel for my accountant."
• "Actually I LOVE Tinybooks and still use it and recommend it to other artists."
• "Thanks again for creating a simple to use efficient accounting program."
• "It's refreshing to find someone genuinely interested in the customer and willing to work with them."
• "Way to go! What a software company! A customer makes a suggestion and voila! Very cool. Thanks for making it happen."
• "Really glad I updated to the new version."
• "good, simple to use, just what I needed!!"
• "Keep up the great communication and updates. Much appreciated."
• "Woooohooo!...nice."
• "Excellent Product ~ Easy to Use and Understand ... Provides Great Accounting Power ( Reports & Summaries ) Easily and At Hand ~ at the mere press of a button.Well Done"
• "The program is excellent and tracks cash flow beautifully and simply. Your summaries are wonderful. How come the rest can't do it ?"
• "read reviews and your intoductory literayure & was hooked"
• "Can't wait to get my books in order. Never thought I'd be saying that about my bookkeeping!!!!"
• "You can use my comments about your great program. For once, I know where the money is!"
• "Thanksso much!!! I finally found a software program for the Mac that does what I need it to do and is affordable!!"
• "I love your app- I searched for a long time to find something as simple and useful as TinyBooks. Thanks!"
• "I like simple"
• "Fantastic bit of programming. 3 cheers for giving us something we need without all the useless bloat!"
• "Tiny Books is so fantastic. Simple is king. I was so afraid that I would have to get some [expletive deleted] like Quickbooks or whatever. I am glad that I don't."
• "I am trying the demo verison and I really like it. I love the simplicity. I was getting the feeling with many of the software packages I was looking at that they were really more than I needed."
• "I am an accounting dunce- I need this instead of double-entry just so I can understand my finances"
• "Your timely personal help anwering my ?'s sold me on it..."
• "i really like it a lot - it's pretty much perfect for me. and i love it's simplicity."
• "A wonderful program! Your work is appreciated."
• "Your software looks like exactly what I need."
• "SEEMS OK [:-)]"
• "Just purchased tiny books - love it, it's exactly what I need."
• "TOP SERVICE...Thanks for your great product and the sincerity in which you update and advise us all."
• "I just found your TinyBooks program, and it's exactly what I'm looking for."
• "Glad to support simple but good programming"
• "I intend using Tinybooks for my family budget and home business income/expense records."
• "I have entered the numbers for January 2005 to see how it all works and it is very good, especially the automatic calculations/ reports which I used to do manually at the end of the month."
• "Thanks for the TinyBooks update ... I liked the program before, now it's even better. It runs great in OSX."
• "Legendary Service."
• "This is my second year using TinyBooks. It only gets better and better. The recent changes have made for smoother, faster entries. It's so simple Frankly, this little application is a dream. You can bet I'll do my best to spread the word. If I can be of any help promoting your product, please don't hesitate to ask."
• "I love tiny books!"
• "I'm switching over from Quicken to use for my freelance business! After checking it out for the trial period, I was very pleased."
• "Awesome..."
• "Been using the demo. Love it! For a simple, one-woman operation, it's all I need."
• "very very please with it! gave you a good review on sofotex (there was none there) and would recomend you to other friends with small businesses.... thanks so much"
• "TinyBooks really is simple but elegent!"
• "Your poduct is Mac OS compatible and about the only thing I can find that isn't some overgrown accounting package, 1/10 of which she doesn't need or will ever use. Keep up the good work."
• "Happily using TinyBooks to prep for April 15th. It's the greatest!"
• "Thanks for the update and the great work with tinybooks."
• "Tinybook is worth it's weight in gold."
• "I love the program by the way."
• "Wonderfull program !!!"
• "In a world of overly complex programs this is a breath of fresh air... we are switching from MYOB which is MIA since it was sucked up by Intuit in Canada."
• "Thanks! I tried TinyBooks, used it for my 2003 taxes (yes, just now) and it worked perfectly! On to 2004!"
• "Perfect for my needs. I am NO acct."
• "Did search online, found TinyBooks demo, tried it LOVED IT!!"
• "Looks ideal for my needs. Simple and elegant."
• "I really like TinyBooks. Your improvements continue to make it more useful."
• "THANKS! Downloaded & tried last nite. Exactly what I've been looking for. Nice & simple."
• "thanks Ken--this is just what I need!!"
• "Just a quick email to personally congratulate you on getting the latest v3 of your baby - Tinybooks - to market. Of course, we have already ordered the registration necessaries ... and continue to support you not only via subscription, but I trust me when I tell you that I tell EVERYONE about the program. The new updates are fantastic and will be of great help to almost everyone. Well done again Ken. Having designed, funded, marketed and promoted many of my own concepts, I can fully appreciate the effort, determination and drive ( and know how ) involved."
• "I have been testing your TinyBooks accounting software and I really Love it. It's almost too good to be true."
• "TinyBooks 3.0 looks great! Thanks."
• "Thanks too for all the work you put in to TinyBooks"
• "I have used your TinyBooks for over 2 years now. I think I got your first release and have been happy with it ever since."
• "When I first got your program it was for the affordability and simplicity. Now I could easily afford a much bigger program, but why would I? Tinybooks is so easy to use and you are always improving it without complicating it. Keep up the good work Ken!"
• "First, thanks for consistently updating and making your product better. I use it for my small dog training business. I love that I can personalize it for my own use and keep track of everything."
• "Just a note to tell you that I love TinyBooks. As the sole proprietor of a small business, it's just what I need. So glad I found it."
• "I have no idea where I originally saw a mention about your Tiny Books but it's brought me much peace of mind!"
• "I really do appreciate you taking so much personal time out today for 1 customer. Your kindness does not go unnoticed or unappreciated!"
• "The whole upgrade sounds wonderful! I have been using 2.0 and it has worked very well for me. It has been simple, no-nonsense, and fun to use."
• "Used happily for three years"
• "I just wanted to thank you for such a great accounting program. It's a breeze at the end of every month to update my accounts. Thank you for creating such an easy program for the computer clueless!"
• "I have v.3 up and running with all my files in place -- and love it."
• "I just wanted to tell you that I really like Tiny Books for Mac. It really is nice and clear and quick to learn."
• "And thanks again for TinyBooks; a wonderful program that has nicely organized a segment of my life that used to be chaotic and a worrisome concern."
• "wonderful simply powerful program. thanks."
• "Great little programm for the Mac. Nice Work!"
• "When I was at University i always felt that the greatest lecturers were those who could explain a really complex subject and make it seem easy i think this is what you have done with your neat software"
• "I certainly remain pleased with the ease of use of your program. I once bought Microsoft Money but it was overwhelmingly complex and rigid. As I was flying through entering my bills etc into your software i had a small panic and thought what if after all this entering of data there comes a time when the month is "full" so I entered a whole bunch of empty entries only to be very pleased to see a scroll bar appear. Then I remembered some of the packages I had been reading about on the Apple site which expected a new fee each year and i thought oh dear will I have to buy the program again to enter last years info which I have not yet sent to my accountant so I was delighted to go to new and find I could enter any old year number."
• "Tried your Tiny Books in the Trial Period and loved it! It helps a self-employed ADD artist keep organized."
• "Love the simplicity and quick entry. Great work on this product."
• "Thanks for the quick turnaround! I was hoping that would process quickly. I am trying to get through a pile of receipts and sort of new at the small business bookkeeping thing. I'm definitely very glad to have TinyBooks to keep it simple, straight and fast."
• "Nice little app, does everything I need for a small photo restoration and photography business, and is very light on it's feet."
• "To date the software of Tinybooks is great - Thanks so much, I will be reccommending it."
• "Thanks for all your help, its rare today - especially over an internet business to find someone that will personally return emails."
• "Great app. Exactly what I need for startup home-based franchise."
• "Love the prog!"
• "All I need for my one man Willwriting business is something small and perfectly formed, and I think I've found it."
• "I just wanted to drop you a note to tell you how much I am enjoying TinyBooks to use as the accounting software for my piano business."
• "I have been very happy with TinyBooks- simple, yet effective enough (even my accountant was OK with it- a tough sell)."
• "Great Program! Love that it is straight forward. Works great for home and business."
• "nice little simple program"
• "I like TinyBooks and use it often."
• "great program,just what I was looking for"
• "I really love the tinybooks, and as a small business, its the first program I can understand."
• "Brilliantly simple!"
• "Even I can understand it!"
• "tiny books= great program"
• "Your TinyBooks were/are great!"
• "And thanks for a piece software that offers exactly what I need."
• "Now that's what I call instant gradification! Thankyou so much for getting right on that problem. I tried it out and it works great. Send me an Email when their are any other cool updates! Not that it even needs any. Thanks again!"
• "It is a diamond in the rough for me. It is exactly what I needed to keep track of my business expenses and income."
• "Keep up the good work. (but please......keep it simple, thats the beauty of this program)."
• "Thanks so much for developing what is a very fast, nimble and efficient program! I have not yet fully explored it, but from what I can see, it is ALL of those things and then some!"
• "Thank you for your prompt reply....this level of service is outstanding."
• "One press of a button and I'm set up for another year - and this is the man who couldn't even open Quickens box, let alone use it effectively!"
• "The program is a nice simple deal especially for simple minded me!"
• "Not everyone has Excel, and many who do find it very intimidating, to say nothing of expensive. Tiny books is the perfect program for such a situation."
• "The program is up and running and the receipts are flyin'.......I wanted you to know I'm very pleased with Tiny Books as my accounting software. I own and operate a small dog grooming business and really rely on Tiny books."
• "Again, many thanks for TinyBooks, it has greatly simplified my life -- now if only it would sort out the numerous piles of stuff lying all over the studio floor..."
• "I love tinybooks. It's perfect for keeping track of expenses / income, I use it to handle the finances of my graphic design studio, and it's a breeze - so easy to use, but it's really all you need to keep things up to date in a simple way. THANKS!"
• "This is the nice and simple program that I have been looking for, not being at all familiar with accounting, and I am confident that it will adequately cater for all my needs."
• "TinyBooks is just what I needed. I can DO this."
• "It is a wonderful program for my dog handling business! Thanks!"
• "So far I have enjoyed your program immensely and found it to be very helpful. There is semblance to my bookkeeping now!"
• "I am very pleased with the program and the support. Keep up the good work!"
• "Ken, you rock! Thanks so much! The updated version works great. I would and will reccomend your software to anyone."
• "great program"
• "As a designer, I appreciate the simple straight forward design. I'm a designer not an accountant!"
• "I have recommended your accounting program to others whenever they've asked me what I use."
• "Wrapping up my taxes - soooo much easier this year with TinyBooks."
• "Brilliant solution for my freelance business. Easy to set up and learn. I'm VERY happy!"
• "I've been using Tinybooks for a couple of months now and I couldn't be happier with it, it makes recordkeeping a lot easier."
• "Happy taxes!"
• "Thanks for the latest update to Tinybooks - very much appreciated. It is an excellent programme, and just keeps getting better! Keep up the good work."
• "I'm doing TAXES and thanks to Tiny Books -- this year I will actually file on time!"
• "Thanks for the notice. Sweet program!"
• "top program - wouldn't use anything else. Your efforts are much appreciated."
• "I am very pleased with Tiny Books and use it for myself and my company."
• "I've been using Tiny Books for the last year and have just completed this years set of books, such a joy to work with. The program makes it effortless."
• "Thanks, Ken. TinyBooks rocks."
• "Exactly what I was looking for. Very easy to use."
• "Excellent bit of software just what a small business needs"
• "thank you for your constant improvements to Tinybooks."
• "I love so many of the features as well as the overall simplicity of your software."
• "Thanks for your hard work with this wonderful program."
• "I would just like to say a big thank you for developing such an easy to use program. I am a sole trader and I was looking for a easy to use accounts program I guess I choose the right one!!"
• "I have looked at the other accounting software and in my opinion you really have to know accounting to use them, not for me."
• "Love my TinyBooks."
• "So thanks, Ken, for all your help. And I still love the program---I shall be recommending it to all who will listen."
• "I really do like the TinyBooks product. Have a Great Day!"
• "Top dollar program"
• "tested the demo and was easy to set up and use..looking forward to doing my books...did I say that?"
• "Brilliantly simple... less really is more!"
• "Thanks Ken, this is the kind of service that makes me even more happy I am trying your program rather than one of the other "Top shelf" products. Thanks!"
• "Good Stuff...You're a marvel. Thanks for your ( continued ) great work."
• "Brilliant!"
• "Although I hate bookkeeping, I look forward to using this program."
• "Your product makes it possible for a small operation like ours to produce great records for our tax man. Thanks for all your hard work."
• "Love the application!"
• "Like the new inputting, and I am sure I will be equally surprised and happy with the rest - as will my tax man when he gets my accounts for the year!"
• "Thank-you very much! I'm thrilled to see you've included taxes as I was considering jumping ship. (we have silly gst reports to submit) But now your program does everything I need it to."
• "Thank you very much for writing this terrific software."
• "We love TinyBooks!"
• "Many thanks for a great app."
• "BTW: Tax function is really good."
• "Looks like an excellent upgrade to an already exceptional application."
• "by the way ... i LOVE tiny books!!!!"
• "I really love TIny books. I use it daily."
• "Thanks for being understanding. I really like this program and your clear fashion."
• "For a Freelance singer this tool is perfect. I have just downloadet it, and registrated it, and I'm already in business.."
• "I've been using Tinybooks since V2 ~ and you know from my previous communiques just how well I speak of it ! A simple, yet satisfying experience..Well done Superstar !"
• "So far I love your software."
• "Love your program, especially now that I can account for GST."
• "I have used Tiny Books for nearly 3 years, from about 2 months after I purchased my first (and, so far, only) Mac. It is simple, easy to use, and clean."
• "Up until last month, I have been using Appleworks' database feature to do my invoices. That meant, of course, that I had to create my own invoice form. I liked mine a lot; but I like yours much better. It's very professional looking."
• "Thanks so much for this application. It does a great job!"
• "I am just getting settled in with Tiny Books and love it so far. It's perfect for what i need."
• "Thanks for the email regarding the free upgrade - if only all software companies were as friendly as you are! It's a great program that just keeps getting better and better!"
• "Thanks again for your great work Ken. I love this product !"
• "I am a newish user of TinyBooks for my freelance writing business - and I love it. Thank you!"
• "Its a great piece of software, simple and clean - like all good mac apps should be."
• "I like v4 alot. Over the last week I have taken it thur the paces. Nice product."
• "Your tinybooks software is perfect for my small concrete construction business. I have spent one night working with it and I love it."
• "Thanks again for a really useful product and great support."
• "Of course it is the best program going."
• "I have not used a lot of the features, yet, but wanted to tell you how happy I am with it, so far. I will recommend it to my clients, for sure."
• "I love TinyBooks!"
• "Thank you so much for your prompt and gracious help. You have an outstanding little product here. I'm a self-employed artist with no interest in, or use for, the usual bookkeeping software."
• "I was up and running in about 15 minutes; it's the picture of simplicity and efficiency."
• "You are the man. This is a great program, and I appreciate the great response."
• "BTW, I absolutely LOVE TinyBooks. It's fast and simple and purely efficient. Nice job!"
• "Thanks again for your help and your great product!"
• "Anyway, thanks again for creating software so streamlined and simple to use. And for your quick responses."
• "Ken thanks for the update I love TinyBooks"
• "It is great to find someone like yourself still turning out easy to use programs that are both simple yet fun to use. Keep up the good work!"
• "hi Ken, thanks so much! Your customer service is second-to-none! Very impressive. Thanks again."
• "Thanks - I am still very much enjoying the simplicity of your program."
• "Gracious me, I am astonished at the swiftness and detailed-ness of your response - thank you."
• "Thanks for the update. This is my first tax season with all my info in Tinybooks from last year, and it's been so much easier."
• "It's brilliant mate! You have one very satisfied customer."
• "Your customer service is absolutely fabulous!"
• "I JUST WANTED TO SAY ~~~~~~THANK YOU! TINYBOOKS IS EXACTLY WHAT IV'E BEEN SEARCHING FOR . YOUR PROGRAM IS EXTREMELY EASY TO SET UP AND USE. I'LL RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE. THANKS AGAIN FOR A SMOOTH TRANSACTION!"
• "Thanks for the "just right" software. Everything else I've tried for my tiny business was overwhelmingly huge. Tinybooks is great!"
• "It's a great program Ken and I use it constantly for my sales and expenses."
• "I just found TinyBooks and bought and registered it!!! I have been looking for something simple to handle my small business and this is just perfect. Thank you sooooo much!!!!"
• "I run an online store and have just discovered TinyBooks. It's great, very easy to use and so much simpler than QuickBooks, which I used before."
• "Hi there, and thanks for making such a great little program."
• "Thanks again! I love TinyBooks!!!"
• "TinyBooks has been a pleasure to use"
• "Program is simply wonderful and e-mails are answered before I can log off my mail. Unbelievable! Thanks so much."
• "Major updates - for a major product - from a major player. Congratulations ... and thank you, for everything."
• "Congratulations ! You're certainly keeping Tiny Books on the ball. I've been using it for eighteen months and I like it."
• "You're on the ball, as always, Ken! Thanks a lot."
• "You are a good man! Always on top of things"
• "You have produced a brilliant programme that even I can use. I am using it for my Son's accounts and therefore can expect little payment for my time; the ease of use is therefore of some compensation!"
• "TinyBooks is great software."
• "Thanks for the fantastic software !"
• "thanks - and love the program"
• "Thank you very much for your consideration of my recent purchase of Tiny Books and providing the upgrade free of charge. I like Tiny Books very much and appreciate the care you have taken in making the program useful and in providing regular improvements."
• "i love the program. It has made my antique store business so simple now that even I can do it. haha."
• "We started our business 5 years ago at our local weekend open market, then progressed to a small store. Having had no prior business experience, it has been trial and error. Keeping 'The Books' has been a real problem. Especially come tax time. We even went to the expense of purchasing 'AccountEdge' which was way too complicated. I never could figure it all out, so I went back to paper and pencil, always thinking in the back of my head, 'There has got to be an easier way!' Then when I was at the 'MacMinute' web site I noticed a mention of TinyBooks. We went ahead and purchased the program, and The Solution to our problem was solved! This is EXACTLY what we needed! Thank you so very, very much!"
• "I like the new interface, especially the Auto-comment button. That thing is great. Cheers!"
• "I run 2 small partnerships and do the household books. Thank a favorite diety for "Tiny Books". I installed the trial for v.3 and within a few minutes I was back in my "comfort zone" with our bookeeping. By the end of the day I was ready to buy. New updates have been helpful in selling a couple new landscaping jobs using the "Estimate". And a whole lot more........."
• "By the way, your program works beautifully for my small business!"
• "I'm loving the new version of tinybooks!"
• "Nice work on your updates. Makes a terrific program even better!"
• "Thanks Ken for making a simple accounting system for me!"
• "Thank you again for your time and effort in maintaining a great bookkeeping system!"
• "Thanks for adding the annual report thingee."
• "Keep the "tiny" in TinyBooks!"
• "I do love Tiny Books, it keeps me straight."
• "Thanks again! I really enjoy using TinyBooks."
• "I tried your TinyBooks program recently and found it really easy to use - the ideal solution for me."
• "I do appreciate your excellent service and i'll spread the word."
• "Just a short note to express my appreciation for both TinyBooks, which I use as my primary accounting program for my small, single proprietor jewelry business, and your attention to customer service."
• "I'm one of your very happy clients."
• "By the way, I love the ease of your program. It is perfect for our small non-profit society."
• "I am now going on my fifth year with Tiny Books! This has been so fun, easy and simple to use."
• "I LOVE this program !!!! I've had Quickbooks, MYOB, and earlier, had an Appleworks spreadsheet set up for my small business. None of these solutions were very good. I had just bought iWork '08 and was starting to set up yet another book keeping spreadsheet when I vaguely remembered seeing your program mentioned on (???) Macsonly website some time ago. The name had stuck, and looking on Version Tracker, found you."
• "Tiny Books is a work of art (and heart)"
• "So far Tinybooks is just what I needed. Very easy and effective."
• "One nice thing dealing with you is your instant response to e-mails. Thanks for great service and a great program."
• "It's really nice to get a prompt, personal, friendly help service !!"
• "Brilliant. Thank-you for making a perfectly simple accounting app that does exactly what it says on the tin."
• "I started to enter my info. into Tinybooks, I really think this is what I was looking for!"
• "Thank you so much! It works and I love it already."
• "I am only into half a months' worth of data in the program but can already see the simplicity of the program works well for me."
• "Appreciate your fast response and its nice dealing with real people rather than automated response systems!"
• "cheers and thanks for a cool little programme."
• "Incidentally this program is exactly what I was looking for as a small contractor/renovator."
• "I am a long time user of your Tinybooks and I really respect and like it greatly."
• "TinyBooks is the least painful way for a smaller businessperson to maintain accurate bookkeeping records. My wife and I have been using the program for several months (as registered users) and have found it to be far simpler to operate than QuickBooks and far more complete than some of the freeware accounting packages available on the Internet. Thank you for producing just what we need."
• "Thanks again for a great little program. It was just what my little consulting company needed, simple, clean and easy to use. Especially nice for someone like me who wants to get the bookkeeping done without needing to read a novel on the details of accounting and computer programing."
• "Many thanks for producing a good old fashioned well coded compact program."
• "Thanks much. Great service. Hope you never out source your customer service to India."
• "I have been using your Tiny Books for a number of years - and it's works great for my brain. Simple."
• "It works very well by the way and is exactly what I needed."
• "Tiny Books has worked great for me!"
• "We've corresponded in the past, and I just wanted to thank you for making this tax time the least horrendous of all time. I've used my own spreadsheets, MYOB, and two versions of QuickBooks in the past. Nothing has been as easy and useable as TinyBooks. Even my wife, who recently started her own jewelry business, has taken to the program like a duck to water. To say that she is a bit computer phobic, would be putting it mildly ! Thanks again, so much !"
• "Wow! Thank-you for providing the perfect book-keeping program! It was EXACTLY what I was hoping for and reading your customer feedbacks helped me to make my decision. I hope when you add mine to the list, it will also help someone to choose this fantastic program."
• "I use your Tinybooks program for bookkeeping on my mac. I love how simple it is and that you have been very helpful with any updates and questions I have had."
• "Thank you for a neat little piece of software...So far, I found your software very easy to use, and will definitely recommend it."
• "Great work, Ken! I've enjoyed using TinyBooks and it does make the administrative work much easier."
• "Just a quick message to say what a fantastic piece of software this is. I wish that I'd found your product before I'd wasted money on other far more expensive and less intuitive products. Keep up the good work."
• "Yours is still the cheapest, great software I've ever found!****"
• "It's nice to have you so on the ball with updates and client requests. We appreciate it and your program."
• "Re: TinyBooks - Very nice new features, I am especially happy with the new auto sort. Thank you for making a great little program better and better."
• "Your fine application continues to provide just the right level of accounting needed for my small business. I do appreciate the changes from 5.0.2 and certainly appreciate your willingness to provides updates and excellent communication with registered users."
• "I LOVE TINY BOOKS thank you for making this so simple and yet it is all I need for my book keeping."
• "Thanks for making a program that is simple, easy and works on a _Mac_!"
• "Well, Tiny Books appears to be an amazing piece of accounting software. It is so simple but so powerful because it is so flexible."
• "Believe me, we already appreciate the simple beauty of TB."
• "Thanks so much for helping us simplify our lives in these complex times."
• "Great program! Can you get it to tell me I am spending less than I am?!!!!!!"
• "This is like a breath of fresh air..."
• "for the first time in 30 years working for myself I'm completely relaxed about keeping my accounts."
• "I am a happy user of TinyBooks. I started using it for my part-time business this year, and it's worked out great. Simple is indeed better. Thanks for your work on it."
• "Thank you again for your time, I do love Tinybooks!"
• "Thanks much Ken! Great program and great support!"
• "I am really excited about TinyBooks and how it works. I found the previous versions to work just fine, and I am excited to see what I can do with this new version! I like TinyBooks so much that I don't really want to boot up QuickBooks up ever again, nor should I have to. TinyBooks makes QuickBooks look clunky, in my opinion."
• "It is exactly what I have been looking for for a long time."
• "great program. exactly what i was looking for."
• "Love how simple Tiny Books has made my job of keeping the books: less time feeding the computer, more time for work."
• "you have a very happy customer here. i want to say i appreciate your fast responses. to bad more companies aren't like you."
• "out of all the accounting programs i have tried out, this is the easiest and best one i've come across. For me when it comes to accounting, i'm a novice, and less is definitely more. Nice program."
• "Congratulations & thanks a lot for your fantastic program!"
• "Your application is perfect for my small business."
• "I love your program it's perfect for my small business. Easy to use and no manual/help reading. I love it!!"
• "lovely little application"
• "I have found this program invaluable for keeping my company books organized. I no longer procrastinate with receipts and bookkeeping and actually look forward to making entries."
• "Thank god there is a application like yours out there for the Mac people who want to keep things simple and accurate without having to learn double entry bookkeeping."
• "BTW: marvellous software. We've been totally intimidated by book- keeping (despite having been running two businesses for 14 and 19 years) and this wee sol has totally changed that. Not saying we are professional book-keepers now, by any means, but we are certainly far more in control of categorizing and recording expenses and looking at where the $$$ is going. I guess this is a long way of saying "Thank you VERY much!!""
• "Thank you very much! Great program!"
• "I love this application."
• "By the way, I really very much love TinyBooks. Outstanding product; well worth the money. Thanks for making such a wonderful product. :-)"
• "Thanks, and thanks again for creating such a great program. The time and money this program has saved me has paid for itself many, many, many times over!"
• "thanks! I love TinyBooks!"
• "Thank you for creating something that just works!"
• "Thank you for a lovely accounting utility!"
• "Excellent product just got a whole lot better ~ didn't think it was possible, mind you."
• "TinyBooks is so easy to use and the only product that found worth using after trying at least 15 others. I'm sure that I will have suggestions over the next while and will make sure to pass them on to you."
• "Keep being there and plugging away with this software Ken. It is great now and has amazing potential to dominate other such programs if you wanted to go that far!"
• "I am enjoying your program and it is making my life easier - many thanks"
• "Worked it out, all ok. looking forward to using your program, seems it's the answer to my accounting prayers as a small business guy."
• "The new version 6 is a great update, thanks."
• "Thanks very much, and thanks so much for all of your hard work. It is so great when people make mac-based software, because I love my Macintosh, and everyone else should too."
• "Thanks again for your brilliant programming: it's a real workhorse!"
• "Happy to keep supporting TinyBooks, it's a real gem."
• "I love the ease of use and the versatility - the ability to generate reports to fill my needs."
• "By the way, this program is great for my needs. I'm trying to get my brother to get it too."
• "Thanks for the suggestions and coaching. Needless to say, I'm registered - and still a fan."
• "TinyBooks is great! Love it."
• "Yes I use TinyBooks and love it! The program is GREAT!"
• "I use TinyBooks all the time and I like it...It is just the right program for me."
• "It's ridiculously easy to use and lets me see patterns and trends in our nonprofit group's financial information that would have been unclear to me otherwise. I'm never frustrated and never bored. What more can you ask from an accounting program?"
• "I certainly am still using Tinybooks and think it's great."
• "FYI: I love Tiny Books"
• "I have been using Tiny Books for two years now. I like its simplicity ease of use."
• "I do custom woodworking and cabinetry, Tiny Books has worked out great for my small business. I just hand the final report along with with some other info. to my accountant and she takes it from there. I also like knowing where I stand (financially) as long as all info. has been inputed. I could not imagine using a Dome Book and manually doing all that Tiny Books does."
• "TinyBooks is a lovely program and my husband and I are grateful to have found it."
• "Thanks for all your fine efforts in creating TinyBooks for folks like us!"
• "It is so amazing to get such a quick reply to all our queries - many, many, many thanks!!!"
• "I LOVE TINYBOOKS!!!!!!!! You did a great job on this program, just what I needed."
• "I just purchased Tiny Books today and am entering 6 months worth of data. As a small business owner I know keeping accurate records is important but I've never liked any of the other bookkeeping programs I've tried. Tiny books is so simple and easy to use plus it makes intuitive sense to me (unlike most other accounting software). Its really helped me in an area I've had constant struggle so thank you for simplifying it and making it easier for me to stay on top of the numbers!!!! Add me to your list of glowing testimonials; I wouldn't take the time to email you if I didn't feel the program was truly exceptional."
• "Thanks very much indeed for replying to my blank email. You're a fantastic software supplier. I bet Microsoft wouldn't be so available to support it's users!!!"
• "Thanks again for your prompt and friendly help whenever I have needed it - not much of that about in this day and age!"
• "I want to repeat how grateful I am for Tiny Books and how it has simplified my life enormously, and surely kept my blood pressure at a safe level. I actually enjoy inputting information almost daily and keeping track of the monthly totals-nothing like knowing the bottom line for sure-though it looks like this coming year inputting will be easier... :-("
• "I've got to say, for my particular use, TinyBooks is infinitely better than QuickBooks or one of those other accounting applications."
• "Finally, I'm getting my 2008 books done! Your software is splendid, and it sure does make the job go quickly."
• "That's fantastic - I appreciate the (ridiculously) fast response. I'd already decided to recommend your software to other consultants and this level of service confirms it was a smart choice."
• "Tiny Books works great for me. My tax lady likes it to."
• "Sure love my Tiny Books! Maybe this year I will start doing my family books on it too. We are reaching retirement age and that wold be handy."
• "I sure have enjoyed Tiny Books. It has made keeping track of things so much easier and I am ready for my bookkeeper to do my taxes..."
• "Thank you Ken, for your quick reply and great service!! That was very helpful."
• "I love my Mac, and I love TinyBooks, and everything is very easy to learn."
• "Thanks so much. It works like it's charmed! I luv luv luv it! And thank you for your personalized and super sonic response to my initial confusion. I am off and rolling!"
• "I've been merrily inputting information without any problems. Neat program. Wish I'd had it years ago."
• "Thank you for your help, and this great software."
• "Thanks for your help and I love the program!"
• "Your Program is fantastic. Easy to use and none of the hassles of others I have seen. Your quick response with my emails is also greatly appreciated. I will tell everyone that has a Mac about Tiny Books."
• "Your software is great -- so simple."
• "I am very excited to use your product an I really appreciate the online support."
• "Hopefully, Tinybooks will keep us out of IRS prison!! Thanks for writing a program for us "creative" types!"
• "I finished the year using Tiny Books. What a great program for my business. Thanks."
• "It's exciting having a simple yet effective software that is making my life more enjoyable. Thanks again."
• "I would like to thank you for creating such a simple yet amazingly detailed program. The reporting capability is the best. I do my husband's books for his business and for years I struggled with spreadsheets that never seemed to give me the information I needed at the end of the year. Tinybooks has saved me hours and hours of time. It's funny the reason I found your program on the internet was I was trying to see if anyone had created a simple access program for record keeping. Thank you again."
• "TinyBooks is a wonderfully useful piece of software that fills a void for the sole-proprietor. I needed something more flexible than the Neo-Office spreadsheet I used for 2008, but dreaded getting involved in Quickbooks. Thank you for offering TinyBooks to the Net community."
• "First off, let me start by again thanking you for TinyBooks. It has made such HUGE difference in running our business!"
• "Great little program!! Just right for small business."
• "TB really helped me through tax time. Still traumatized about owing, but it was easier to prepare."
• "Thanks for the update, Ken. You've made a superb product even better."
• "thanks for the update; i am very pleased to report that using Tinybooks has made my accounting life almost a pleasure! keeping track of my simple finances has never been easier. I am so grateful to you for your hard work."
• "Just wanted to say 'thanks' for the upgrade, and 'you're a bloody legend! I'm loving TinyBooks...Big smiles'"
• "Still a great program and much easier to use then Quickbooks. Not to mention way cheaper."
• "I do so love the program and have told others about it."
• "I have a small Consultancy in Barcelona, Spain. Tinybooks is very useful to me because it is very straightforward a as bookkeeping program."
• "Just wanted to let you know -- I got TinyBooks last year and have been really happy with it. I recommend it to all my colleagues (I'm a therapist in private practice). Those with PCs are sad that it's not an option for them. :) Thanks for making my life easier and tax time a breeze! :)"
• "Thanks for the simplest method I've ever used for my small film conversion business."
• "It's a more powerful program that I knew! Thanks for the instant reply, you're really on top of things."
• "I love your software it is great"
• "I just did my company taxes for the first time and found it was so easy to do thanks to your application."
• "I'm embarrassed to tell you, I'm just now finding the time to get started on my bookkeeping and so far, I am finding TinyBooks to be great...easy to move around, easy to follow instructions, it's all good and I am truly thankful to have ordered it, if I make myself do my part, now, and keep up on a weekly basis, all will be good."
• "I have told several people about your product and I know at the end of the year, pressing one button to compile all tax info will be fantastic!!"