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Our company has sales of about 2 millon dollars a year, with about twenty-five employees. With jobs ranging from $300.00 to $50,000.00. We do many different types of remodel construction. My bookkeeper says quickbook pro is now to small for our company. Any ideas on what program to try.
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My accountant recomended Peachtree. I would question why Quickbooks Pro is not adequate we had gross sales of $9,000,000 dollars this year and used QB as the accounting system.
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Rick R. [email protected]
*Tim, You need to discuss this with an accounting consultant that is familiar with accounting software. Peachtree has versions for many sizes of companies...There's the Remodelers Associations....Over at JLC...There is a Quickbooks Expert Consultant ready to help with her own forum...Somewhat beside the point, I am testing QB 2001 right now...It does a lot...What are you having trouble with?near the stream,aj
*I agree with Rick. My son's use MYOB and are switching back to QBP which we used two years ago. Went to MYOB because they supported Macs. They will do about $3M this year and at 1/1/01 will switch to Windows machines.Contact QBP direct and address with them, the complaints your accountant has.
*We do about that and use a pencil on paper. It works great, and it never gets outdated. We can customize it as needed, and it never crashes. Oh, I might add, we do use a calculator, and it has never let us down either. I know, I know, high tech is "in" and "cool" and all that, but I've never had the manual method let me down. I'm not totally computer stupid (I made it here, didn't I?). Just because they have a mechine for everything doesn't mean you have to use it and stake your business on it. You can spend days or weeks learning a new software system, or just write it all down in a folder (a real folder, not the cyber kind) and take your wife out to eat in your spare time. Or better yet, let the bookeeper go and save that much more. Time and Money. If the electricty goes out in my office on Thursday, the crew still gets paid on Friday.My opinion, (and I'm sure it won't be real popluar)Ed. Williams
*QBPro has been good to me, but we're not talking millions here. aj, let us know how QB2001 turns out to be.fv
*Here's some news on 2001...It's more polished...more organised....more help....more spell checking...more online features, such as online billing, faxing, stamps, email bills and payment receipt, merchant credit card services....For us, I see more help in doing proper business reports...it now allows you to use the payroll service without buying the update service (I like this freedom)...It has more price control abilities...more invoice abilities...a new time date stamp feature which I like that will let you know which report version was made when (great when finetuning a report or rebuilding account data)That's some of it....It is supposed to ship in December, but who knows..The beta testers report bugs...I have asked for the wheel scrolling feature to work in all drop down list windows as it does not now...I also asked for the multiuser version to work across the net and for the inventory list to have the ability to have sublists (grouping)...near the stream,aj
*I sleep with my accountant and she says I'm getting too big for my boots. Should I change accountants, or get new boots?
*Mark Take it from someone whos been there. Changing boots is a lot cheaper than changing that accountant.DanT
*I haven't yet grown big enough to trouble the capabilities of QBPro version 5! I think that's what I'm using. The estimating function of QBPro is definitely crap for my type of business, (custom furniture and exhibition items, e.g., galleries) even if I can screw with its whacky estimating function to make it estimate as I want. Does anyone think I should move back to quill and parchment, apart from Ed that is? ;-) Sliante.
*If I am not mistaken, QB Pro must abide to "accounting law" and work with these strick guidelines. Unfortunately, the program doesn't always satisfy the "creative" book keeper who can see severe limitations in the pyrotechnical department. In the old days, we had to use crude programs for the same book keeping tasks, and we thought it was an improvement over the old ledger. We also accepted the limitations. Today we expect more and since the technology moves so fast, we expect it now. This however does not change the fact that book keeping must follow established laws, and that in itself is the basic and unbroacheable limitation.fv
*Hey Sigan,I may be alone on this one. But it sure works for me. Be it Dollars or Pounds Sterling. Most people want to use technology for the sake of using technology. It is not that much of a time saver. You can write it down or key it in. I won't trust my business to the availability of electrical power or the God Almighty Motherboard. I've had one motherboard crash on me. It's gonna happen to everyone sooner or later. Without a paper back-up, you're lost until the repairs are rendered. A few homemade forms and I'm up and running 24/7.Ed.
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Our company has sales of about 2 millon dollars a year, with about twenty-five employees. With jobs ranging from $300.00 to $50,000.00. We do many different types of remodel construction. My bookkeeper says quickbook pro is now to small for our company. Any ideas on what program to try.