How to handle your customer / accounting / contact data.

The best small business solution?

[sudden]

I am looking for a software solution (or a combination of multiple programs) for my "small business" with two people. Whatīs most important is the ease of use (as much automation as possible) and the ability to synchronize customer data with a web database (MySQL).

I came across ACT! which seems to have some sort of data exchange with QuickBooks. Does anybody have any experience with this combination? Or what are you using to handle customers since you left Outlook behind?

I hope itīs ok to mention the software titles here, the discussion would be a little hard without doing so.

[Travoli]

I personally have a very select few that I work with, and not much accounting to do, so excel and outlook/business cards work perfectly for me. I thought I'd bump this up to see if anyone else has experience with accounting/contact software combos.