Quickbooks is out of the question…
Frustrated by the limited number of contacts I could add to my Freshbooks account for the $20/month fee and determined not to upgrade, I’ve been looking for other options.
And no, I will not consider using dusty old archaic stupid Quickbooks.
So I started playing around on the ThriveApp trial as suggested by @pwillefo.

It’s pretty amazing and intuitive as well as affordable - if you don’t care about your billing system having ACCOUNTING FUNCTIONALITY.

So I went ahead and upgraded Freshbooks to the unlimited $30/month since it does have really great reporting features that make end of the year accounting a lot easier. Not to mention it’s really easy to use and reliable.
Is anyone using anything else they’d recommend?