gboy
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who do you prefer,
and why.
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and why.
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Quickbooks vs Pastel
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depends on your needs - if its basic accounts then quickbooks is easy, if you need a higher level application then Pastel
gregmcc
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Have you also looked at MS Money - it doesn't look too bad. Then again I only use it to track my spending/budget and not the expenses of a company
I know of accountants that use Quickbooks. But yes, it does depend totally on your needs. Unless you have a degree in finance, I would stick with QB. If you are prepared to put in considerable time and effort, then Pastel will help you to learn a fair amount whilst achieving what you want from an accounting package.
/Man, I sound like a Pastel salesman...
Abe
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Quickbooks, any day of the week. We purchased Pastal a long time ago and it took about 8 patches (30 odd stiffies if I remember correctly) before we could even get a Balance Sheet out of the thing. Cut our losses, bought Quickbooks and have never looked back. It's an awesome package.
Sapphiron
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Save your money and sanity
Use Omni Accounts.
I'm in the IT industry as consultant with about half my clients in the financial services industry.
Pastel and Quickbooks are some of the most problematic and buggy software out there. Not to mentioned overpriced.
Omni Accounts is a no thrills package. Their solution also scales very well and they have a very nice "pay for what you use" policy. If you want proforma invoices, pay R75 and it's yours. Want stock control. pay R100 and it's yours.
Their support is excellent with email responses including screenshot on how to achieve what I asked them. I only have matric Accounting (quite a while back now) and I found it very easy to use.
Best of all, It doesn't chow you PC's resource like Pastel or quickbooks
Lots of prominent publications have also rated them highly
http://www.omniaccounts.co.za/resources.asp
www.omniaccounts.co.za
Use Omni Accounts.
I'm in the IT industry as consultant with about half my clients in the financial services industry.
Pastel and Quickbooks are some of the most problematic and buggy software out there. Not to mentioned overpriced.
Omni Accounts is a no thrills package. Their solution also scales very well and they have a very nice "pay for what you use" policy. If you want proforma invoices, pay R75 and it's yours. Want stock control. pay R100 and it's yours.
Their support is excellent with email responses including screenshot on how to achieve what I asked them. I only have matric Accounting (quite a while back now) and I found it very easy to use.
Best of all, It doesn't chow you PC's resource like Pastel or quickbooks
Lots of prominent publications have also rated them highly
http://www.omniaccounts.co.za/resources.asp
www.omniaccounts.co.za
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Asha'man X
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Our school uses Pastel Partner, across 4 computers for 4 users.
It has been a bit of a resource hog, and it is has crashed a few times, especially once they introduced the drill down feature a while back, our systems were too under powered for that, but since upgrading it's running better.
Yet on the other hand it seems to satisfy the needs of the bursar and bookkeeper just fine. I guess my main gripe at times is getting the package registered (if the internet method fails for some reason) and having the call centre person give you the serial number "J for Juliet, H for hotel, V for Victor" type style.
My dad is an accountant, and uses Pastel too for his small home run accounting business. He also uses an older package called Tas Book Keeper, that while not as advanced as Pastel, was much less resource heavy and has some simple logical things that Pastel doesn't, or that you need to pay stacks extra for.
It has been a bit of a resource hog, and it is has crashed a few times, especially once they introduced the drill down feature a while back, our systems were too under powered for that, but since upgrading it's running better.
Yet on the other hand it seems to satisfy the needs of the bursar and bookkeeper just fine. I guess my main gripe at times is getting the package registered (if the internet method fails for some reason) and having the call centre person give you the serial number "J for Juliet, H for hotel, V for Victor" type style.
My dad is an accountant, and uses Pastel too for his small home run accounting business. He also uses an older package called Tas Book Keeper, that while not as advanced as Pastel, was much less resource heavy and has some simple logical things that Pastel doesn't, or that you need to pay stacks extra for.
