Accounting Stack Best Practices

March 08, 2025

by a searcher from University of Denver - Daniels College of Business in Boston, MA, USA

I wanted to share the accounting stack and best practices we'd recommend so you streamline everything post close:

The accounting stack we like to work with:

Quickbooks Online
Gusto payroll
Ramp for bill pay
2 bank accounts, 1 credit card max

What we don’t like:

Quickbooks desktop
Bank accounts that don’t have check images or accountant access
more than 2 credit cards
Capital one cards
Quickbooks payroll
Quickbooks inventory
CRMs that aren’t mapped properly to Quickbooks

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Reply by a searcher
in Maryland, USA

We just started using Ramp.com and like it for our business, particularly as our first ever business credit line. It gives 1.5% back on all purchases, and has a treasury feature of 3.97% at the time of post.

Reply by a searcher
from The University of Texas at Austin in Chicago, IL, USA

For your operating accounts, I would add stick with the national or regional banks. Stay away from the local banks because their website functionality tends to be severely lacking.

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