Outright was an

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application that assists small businesses and

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with managing their business's income and expenses. It also provided them with a means to organize and categorize expenses for filing a Schedule C.By Mickey Meece, New York Times
On to Plan B: Starting a Business
Retrieved March 25, 2010.By Kathy Yakal, PC Magazine Review of Outright
Accounting & Tax
Retrieved March 25, 2010. It was acquired by GoDaddy in 2012 for approximately $20 million and has been rebranded as GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping. In May 2022, GoDaddy announced the software would be discontinued on June 18, 2022.

History

Kevin Reeth and Ben Curren worked together at Intuit in 2006 and then later at a web-application firm called Esomnie LLC. As a Product Manager and Software Engineer respectively, the two were heavily involved in the development and marketing of Quicken products. Curren and Reeth had become increasingly frustrated with the complexity of doing taxes for small businesses, so in 2008 they founded a company and website called BootStrap.Outright.com Home Page
Retrieved March 25, 2010.By Anthony Ha, VentureBeat. �
Bootstrap launches financial management site for businesses that don’t like financial management
” Retrieved March 29, 2010 The Website was renamed Outright just a few months after launch, though it continues to be operated by BootStrap, Inc. In 2009, the company raised a total of $7.7 million funding from

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and SoftTech VC among others.By Paul O’Brien, Outright Blog. �
Outright Raises $5.5M with Sequoia Capital
” Retrieved March 25, 2010By ''Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal''. �

” Retrieved March 29, 2010 Today, the website manages $1.2 billion in transactions from small businesses and independent contractors. On July 17, 2012, Outright.com announced in an email to all customers that they had been acquired by

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.com.

Items & Services

Outright.com tracks and manages business income, expenses and tax liabilities. Users input their business account information and Outright structures that information into reports and prepares it in a way that can assist with tax submissions.By Leena Rao, TechCrunch. “Outright Tracking More Than $1 Billion, Launches W-9 Management Service.” Retrieved March 29, 2010 The online-only tool does not involve any software installations and can import financial information from PayPal,

FreshBooks FreshBooks is accounting software operated by 2ndSite Inc. primarily for small and medium-sized businesses. It is a web-based software as a service (SaaS) model, that can be accessed through a desktop or mobile device. The company was founded i ...

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, and other financial management tools.By Howard Greenstein, Inc. �
Small Business Web: Leverage and Cooperation
” Retrieved March 29, 2010By Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle. �
Outright software tools free to freelancers
” Retrieved March 29, 2010Outright.com partners
Retrieved March 29, 2010.By Scott Blitstein, WebWorkerDaily. �
Outright Teams Up With PayPal & Expensify
to Ease Your Bookkeeping Woes">Expensify">Outright Teams Up With PayPal & Expensify
to Ease Your Bookkeeping Woes” Retrieved June 04, 2010 The website has the following features: * Reports income and expenses for sole proprietors filing a Schedule C or IRS tax forms#Individual forms, 1040 * Manages W-9s for paying independent contractors,

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s, and anyone outside of company staff for

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Collect and Manage W-9 Forms Online; Free
” Retrieved June 04, 2010 Outright also has an

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Bookkeeping Selling Manager app that imports transaction data from eBay and PayPal accounts to help eBay sellers manage their finances.By Kevin Reeth, Outright Blog. �
One complete picture
” Retrieved August 11, 2011By Vangie Beal, Ecommerce-Guide Essentials. �
eBay Integrates Outright Bookkeeping Solution
” Retrieved March 29, 2010

Reviews

PCMag gave Outright Plus 2.5/5, praising its user interface; however they criticised its limited features, saying it would be ok for "a sole proprietor or very small business", and recommending QuickBooks Online for those seeking a fuller-featured solution. Tech Republic said Outright was "worth a look", comparing it to Intuit's Mint.com but cautioned that while it offered better tax-calculation facilities than Mint.com, it offers no way to actually pay taxes. Small Business Trends recommended it for sole proprietors, finding it lacked features such as payroll necessary for businesses with employees. Macworld in 2010 scored it 3.5/5, saying "it was easy to get data into the application, but was missing some critical features that Outright said would be added at a later date."

References

External links

Outright Official Website
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