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CEOWORLD Magazine Web 2.0 award for Accounting application!

By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:December 20, 2008

After scrutinizing the web for Web 2.0 sites both new and old, we developed a “short list” of over 25 sites in each category. The jury was formed by 15 top Internet and Web 2.0 experts from US, India, UK, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Australia, Sweden and South Africa.

The websites were evaluated by majority of votes based on ten main criteria:

- Content
- Authority
- Navigation
- Design
- Accessibility
- Innovation
- Business sense and growth expectations
- Degree of competition mix in their market
- Team
- Traffic type: blog, wiki, Services using tags, Mash up based on Google / Yahoo / Live.com maps, Feeds and social networking sites etc.

Winners:

1) expensr

Free online personal finance manager. Expensr is founded by Reman Child and Shawn Gupta. As working professionals, they needed a fast and easy way to track their spending habits. After complaining to each other over lunch one day about not knowing where all their money went, they decided to do something about it. That’s how expensr was born. The founders still have trouble putting money away, but at least now they know where it all goes.

2) Mvelopes

Mvelopes Personal is an award-winning online home budgeting system that helps you look to the future and manage your spending accordingly. With Mvelopes you can quickly and easily create an online home budget, track all your spending, and always know exactly how much you have left to spend.

3) BillQ

billQ is a web-based application that gives you an easy way to keep track of your bills, receive reminders before they’re due, and make sense of them once they’re paid. BillQ comes in two versions. The first version of billQ is the Free version. This obviously doesn’t cost a thing, but it has some feature limitations. The second version, billQ Plus, costs $5/month or $50/year and gives you access to a number of advanced features.

4) Rudder

Rudder is designed to minimize the effort required in managing your money. Whether you pay all your bills systematically from one checking account or have more credit cards than your wallet/ purse can fit, Rudder helps you stay on top of your finances.

5) Blinksale

Blinksale does a killer job at creating, managing and sending your invoices, it doesn’t yet have a built-in time tracking feature.

6) Share bills

Easily share bills from vacations, lunches and dinners with friends and co-workers.

7) Yodlee

Yodlee delivers innovative financial applications that make online banking more profitable by Lowering costs, Increasing revenue opportunities, helping banks acquire, integrate, and retain customers, Delivering unprecedented consumer insight.

BudgetEDGE

budgetEDGE is a free and anonymous place for you to create and manage your finances, using a forward-looking, paycheck-driven approach that shows you if (when) you will run out of money.

9) Lessaccounting

It designed the accounting app to meet our needs as small business owners. Less Accounting runs on redundant hard drives. Data backups are made nightly and stored in a different location. SSL (https) encryption is standard with all accounts.

10) Billshare

Create receipts to divide shared expenses. Track spending habits with detailed statistics. Email alerts keep you updated on amounts owed. The group wall and messaging allow group members to communicate effortlessly. It’s easy, simple and free!

11) Turbotax

Turbo Tax 2008 Online tax filing information is provided for the online preparation of your 2008 Tax Year income taxes. We have put together the most popular income tax filing websites, income tax preparation software, tax forms and other tax resources.

12) Invoiceplace

Take control of your invoicing, manage quotes and track payments online. Create invoices and quotes for any type of product or service. You can use Invoiceplace no matter what you sell be it paint, jumping castles, hardware supplies, or cell phones.

13) Moneybookers

Moneybookers enables any business or consumer with an email address to securely and cost-effectively send and receive payments online – in real-time! Moneybookers delivers a product ideally suited for small businesses, online merchants, individuals and others currently underserved by traditional payment mechanisms. As a truly global payment solution, we welcome customers from all over the World.

14) Buxfer

A complete financial picture at one place. The easy way to track shared expenses.

15) Moneytrackin

moneytrackin’ is a free online webapp that allows you to track all your expenses and income easily and without effort, thus allowing you to have a clear view of your financial situation. It intends to be a simple yet powerful online budget management tool.

16) Wesabe

Wesabe is a community of real people dealing with real money issues. Wesabe is part money management tool, part community. We believe that one person’s good financial decision can be leveraged to an entire community. Experts call this collective intelligence. And we have a whole community of people reaping the rewards of it every day.

17) FreshBooks

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional – Fortune 500 professional.

18) Credit Karma

A credit score is one of the most important components of a consumer’s financial profile. At Credit Karma, we believe free access to one’s credit score and report is a fundamental consumer right. That is why our site allows consumers to access their credit score anytime they want for free without the sneaky “free” trials or subscription requirements.

19) Thrive

Thrive brings all your credit card, checking, savings, retirement, and investment accounts into one place so you can easily see what you have, what you owe, and where you can grow.

20) ePeachtree

Looking for an easy-to-use, Web-based accounting solution that provides the flexibility of managing financials your way, when you have time? Get the ePeachtree Internet Accounting service! With accounting tools like Check Writing, Invoicing, Sales Orders, Inventory, Business Reporting and more, ePeachtree provides access and insight, all the time, no matter where you are.

21) Expensure

Expensure is a free, secure, online tool that helps flatmates and travelmates track, manage and resolve their shared bills and expenses.

22) Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a very simple-to-use web service that helps you track income and expenses, pay estimated taxes on time, and see how your business is doing. It’s perfect for self employed people.

23) Money2Manage

Simple, intuitive interface. Money2Manage is a simple and friendly income and expenses tracking tool focused on helping you manage your finance.

24) Allopass

Allopass is a payment platform on the Net launched by the company Frog Planète SAS, a subsidiary of Eurovox SAS. Actively involved on the Web Market since 1993, Eurovox SAS is also involved on the Audiotel, and the Minitel Markets. Besides providing Internet services, it provides Audiotel, Vocal, SMS (Short Messages Services), and Fax services, and we offer engineer consulting and supply a broad range of universal advising to our clients.

25) Financify

Financify helps you track and manage your income and expenses all around. Financify will track everything and give you basic reports and tracking tools to help you improve on your finance tracking habits and as a end result – you will improve on your spending habits and also plan better for the future. As a user all you have to do is enter your transactions, Financify does the rest.

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