Robust and well designed

You need to provide more information. "Robust", "well-designed", and "high quality" are meaningless terms as you have used them.

For starters, what software have you already evaluated that you found did not meet your needs, and why?

What type of small business are you contemplating? A brothel in Nevada? A concierge doctor's office? A Roto-Rooter® franchise?

-Mark Bole

some examples of problems with quickbooks so far:

- profit and loss report for single invoice is wrong

- after creating new company and entering single invoice Maintenance - Verify Data failed

- help file does not match application

- user interface badly conceived and designed

- user interface workflow is not smooth

- user interface glitchy - sometimes requires closing and reopening windows to draw correctly

- processing time for reconciling 1 invoice 1 receipt and 1 deposit is

I find it hard to believe anybody would pay money for this software

have used them.

They are clearly meaningless to Intuit also!

I am speechless - this software is the most popular in the US ?

It must be the source of millions of hours of pure misery for its unfortunate users

from wikipedia:

Intuit has generated controversy with some of its business practice decisions. Cases of criticism from users and reviewers include the company's phasing-out of support for the ubiquitous QIF format in favor of the QFX format. These formats are used for downloading information from financial institutions such as banks and brokerages. While use of QIF was free, banks are required to pay a licensing fee to Intuit if they wish to allow their customers the ability to download financial data in the QFX format.[25]

In 2007, Intuit lobbied to make sure taxpayers cannot file their tax returns directly to the IRS by negotiating a deal that has the IRS promising not to set up its own Web portal for e-filing.[26]

In 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that Intuit spent nearly $2 million in political contributions to eliminate free online state tax filing for low income residents in California.[27]

I think it is obvious the kind of company Intuit is

I am very pleased I don't use their "software"

Anybody who does is being foolish

It just gets better

when clicking on the "unsubscribe" link on an email from Intuit

it takes me to the "Profile Center" where it displays personal information from OTHER USERS

this is probably caused by incorrect http cache headers - a typicalmistake made my amateur developers LOL this company can't get anything right - complete amateurs in everything they do