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I have looked around in the past for this type of thing and have always came to the conclusion of using a commercial accounting package and doing as much integration as possible. There are several reasons for this including: <ol> <li>With a common commercial accounting package, you can usually find someone who is able to use it without much effort and/or cost of training.</li> <li>If your vertical app is built to integrate with an external accounting app, and it is successfull, you can build integration to additional packages that potential customers may already have in place.</li> <li>Generally, external accountants (CPAs) for most companies like to be able to know that the accounting application that their client is using is well known and supported. There are a lot of reasons for this including cost savings on doing annual tasks (such as corporate taxes). With a common application, the CPA often can request very specific reports/info that already exist.</li> </ol> There are many more advantages, but I am sure you get the picture. Depending on the needs of you clients in terms of accounting, you can start as basic as QuickBooks and go up from there. There is always someone around that knows how to work within QuickBooks and it has a decent integration API. From there you can step up to many of the Sage solutions and/or Microsoft solutions as they are very common and widely used. I know that you stated that you want and API/Engine to build on, but I would highly suggest considering the integration option with a standard commercial package.
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1. POAccounting System for Winforms / SQL Server applications
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1. COHmm...Guess I need to look at the date closer before I answer. I just saw this in the unaswered list and had some thoughts. After typing up my answer, I notices the date. :(
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2. COThanks for the thoughts, but that doesn't work for me. I would be at a disadvantage to my competitors if I required my users to purchase a copy of Quickbooks in order to use my software.
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