Excel, since I assume you have it already
Quite easy to format and personalise to your heart's content, plus obviously you can set formulae to add up line prices for a total, add VAT etc. Then print each invoice/quote to pdf to send to customers.

If you want to get a bit more trick you can get into VBA and have the spreadsheet automatically save quotes in a database, recall previous ones and such.

The next level up from this is some sort of database with a front end that allows you to enter the info. Use Access if you're feeling particularly masochistic, or maybe a web browser based thing with SQL on the back end? Would need coding experience obviously but php/SQL is fairly easy to get into.

Don't go near Acrobat forms, they're a fucking nightmare.

Not sure re. accounting software as we're running a combination of bespoke systems and Sage here, although I'm moving away from Sage as it's an absolute cunt with importing/exporting data. Tbh you could do a lot worse than just running your books in Excel as well, if you're a fairly small company.

Gaz me with more details of what you're trying to accomplish if you don't want to publicise them, I'm sure we can work something out. I'm a programmer and we write pretty all our quoting/stock management etc software in house so I've got a fair bit of experience with this sort of thing.
(username1, Fri 24 Apr 2009, 11:46, Reply)