Small-business owners can pay hundreds of dollars for bookkeeping software. But Noah Matthews of the McClatchy-Tribune News Service suggests looking at an easy-to-use, business-friendly program for Windows PC called Bookkeeper 2007.

Bookkeeper will help you track your inventory, produce purchase orders, invoices and estimates, and e-mail invoices to your customers after converting them to pdfs.

The program will help you set up a credit-card processing account, and send transactions right from the Bookkeeping area.