Accounting Packages PC

[mc_blue]

Hello all,

Can anyone suggest a good accounting package for a small to medium sized business please. Have tried Quickbooks Pro and am staggered that it does not interface with bank statments.

Sage Line 50 a possibility?

With kind regards

Amar

[mattley]

I think the sage products have gone downhill recently, I've not had a play yet, but this looks intersting.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/accounting/FX102...

There's even a free version if you need all the Pro stuff.

[S a m]

Avoid Sage! Instant Accounts has several nasty bugs (easy to reproduce ones) and the general software quality and interface is disgraceful.

The MS Office Accounting (as above) looks very nice... we were going to switch to it but it failed to migrate our Sage data - reporting errors - which Sage can't find... typical.

Looks nice though.

[Eric Mc]

Sage is getting very tired and clunky these days. I have used it for almost 20 years and am very familiar with most aspects of it. However, I am sure that more user friendly alternatives now exist.

[Carsie]

There's lots of options available for you, my advise would be dependent upon several factors e.g what type of business your're running, what your key business drivers are, how much mngt info you need and how many transactions pcm you have. Eric Mc is right Sage has got very clunky over the past few years!

Take your time in selecting and consider an integrated ledger system if possible the productivity gains and financial control more than offset any potential higher cost.

Drop me a line glad to help

[Medusa]

I had been using Quicken for many years, when I changed my PC a couple of months ago I found Quicken was no loger supported in the UK and I could not get any installation codes from Intuit. I changed to Quickbooks made by the same company, the reason for this was I had two business accounts & one home account with details going back many years and Quickbooks converted the old Quicken data into Quickbooks so I had continuity. I have only been using Quickbooks for a couple of months but it seems to do all I need & more.