I've been holding off writing about this company to allow them time to get closer to "out of beta". While they still aren't [out of beta, I mean] they evidently are making good progress and are on schedule for a commercial launch in April. If they can actually deliver what they plan to deliver I predict a very quick uptake in the professional accounting market. METHOD was 
developed by a Toronto-based group called Alocet. These guys are deep into QuickBooks integration development and decided that, rather than build individual integration processes, they'd be clever and build an integration TOOL. Rather like selling pick-axes to the gold-rush miners, it seems to me. From that thought process sprang what's become known as "METHOD" --- it's a hosted development package that directly links to QuickBooks files. You (in this case the pronoun could refer to an end-user, an accountant, a reseller, a developer, or a consultant) design the processes, screens, and reports --- and METHOD does the heavy lifting. The beauty of the process is that all your "templates" (and everybody else's, too!) CAN be re-useable and can be tweaked at almost every juncture. If the tool is as good as it's described there will quickly spring up a cottage industry and marketplace for tweaking and trading highly specialized templates. Each with different inputs for different roles and different processes for different industries and different companies --- but all using the same development tool. Add-ins? No problem -- METHOD will deal with them, too.
I think these guys may have stumbled upon something --- if they can get their pricing structured so that a small practitioner can comfortably utilize (or recommend) it to their small business clients, I predict quick success.
I suggest you look them up when you have a few spare moments and then keep an eye on them to see if they're "ready for prime time" right after busy season.
gll
