Alternatives to Pastel?

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Hi,

Friend was looking to get accustomed to the software but it seem's not even a free version is available?
Any worthwhile alternatives to look into?
 
Back in the day I used to prefer quick books over pastel. Not sure how they are today
 
I tested most of the free ones, and found Sage One to be the best for the price vs features.

Does it have to be free? If you have a business FNB account you have a useless free one, good enough to make invoices.
 
If anyone you or friend knows that recently went for Pastel training, you can get the software via them.
 
I am sure all versions of Pastel Accounting have trail registrations available. It may be 30 days or some processing limits, I think they differ.

Just contact Sage in JHB and find out, at worst you will have to pay them for the CD/Courier fees if it is not available for download.

Alternatively, you should be able to install from any Pastel CD (of someone you know) and just register the trail on there and get to know it.
 
I prefer watercolours to pastel. It is much more vibrant and has a lot of character.
 
Manager is free accounting software for Windows, Mac and Linux. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with modules.
 
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Hi there,

How did it go, did you and your friend find something worth using?

Since you have been doing the research, did you by any find out whats the differences between Revelation and Quickbooks?
 
+1 for Sage One. WaveApps is also good but just so much more flesh in Sage. 30 day trials are also offered. QuickBooks online has a special running on their "big" package as well. Think it's around $7pm.
 
QuickBooks is streets ahead of Pastel Partner in terms of overall user-friendliness, reporting, accessibility of information, etc. Accountants don't like that sort of thing, so the majority still prefer Pastel. Also, they are too lazy to convert to anything else.
 
SoTrue said:
QuickBooks is streets ahead of Pastel Partner in terms of overall user-friendliness, reporting, accessibility of information, etc. Accountants don't like that sort of thing, so the majority still prefer Pastel. Also, they are too lazy to convert to anything else.
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Haven't used QuickBooks in a while and from what I remember, it allowed you to edit transactions after updating. Accountants and auditors do not like this as it reduces the integrity of the financial data presented to them.

Any decent auditing software would be able to import from a range of accounting packages. I've used Caseware, DraftWorks and Pastel Auditor and all allow for importing client data from csv files.
 
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Haven't used QuickBooks in a while and from what I remember, it allowed you to edit transactions after updating. Accountants and auditors do not like this as it reduces the integrity of the financial data presented to them.

Any decent auditing software would be able to import from a range of accounting packages. I've used Caseware, DraftWorks and Pastel Auditor and all allow for importing client data from csv files.
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You can still edit transactions in QB, great feature if you are the only user. However, you can limit edit rights to certain users and require passwords for its use. You can also close off prior periods.

Caseware reads QB files directly, not sure about the others. Actually auditors only need trial balances and GL accounts in Excel or .csv, they can then import into their software.
 
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