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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu May 23, 13 8:26 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Rob R wrote:

vegplot wrote:

Have a look at Freeagent...

https://www.freeagent.com/

Coffee over the keyboard moment when I clicked 'pricing'

It's on par with QuickBooks and in my opinion a far better product.

ï¿½240 is a lot more than I paid for quickbooks, and I've used it for multiple years, the Freeagent price is per annum. If I were to change it every four years it would cost 10 times the price. It must be significantly better to justify that kind of outlay.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu May 23, 13 8:29 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

Rob have you ever looked at Farmplan?

No, my main trouble is that we fall into a category half way between farm accounting & a 'normal' business. Most things seem to work for one or the other (not sure if this does or whether it is built with diversification in mind, I'll look into it).

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu May 23, 13 8:36 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

vegplot wrote:

Rob R wrote:

vegplot wrote:

Have a look at Freeagent...

https://www.freeagent.com/

Coffee over the keyboard moment when I clicked 'pricing'

It's on par with QuickBooks and in my opinion a far better product.

The price disparity between similar functionality isn't really an issue when you compare like for like.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu May 23, 13 8:37 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

Sorry, I didn't explain myself clearly. This (the farm) business doesn't. It doesn't actually need very much of what those packages offer.

What do you need?

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu May 23, 13 8:41 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Rob R wrote:

vegplot wrote:

Rob R wrote:

vegplot wrote:

Have a look at Freeagent...

https://www.freeagent.com/

Coffee over the keyboard moment when I clicked 'pricing'

It's on par with QuickBooks and in my opinion a far better product.

The price disparity between similar functionality isn't really an issue when you compare like for like.

The link only showed one option, which for me was ï¿½20 per month, so I can only compare it on that basis. It may well be worth the money for what it does but it's a waste if you don't need 90% of it.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu May 23, 13 8:55 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

It may well be worth the money for what it does but it's a waste if you don't need 90% of it.

That's true of most things. I wasn't being specific about end use or user needs.

JohnB

Joined: 09 Jul 2005
Posts: 685
Location: Beautiful sunny West Wales!

Posted: Thu May 23, 13 10:02 pm Post subject:

If you want something for nothing, Adminsoft doesn't seem bad. I've had a play around with it and it seems to work pretty well. You can pay to remove the advertising if you want, but it's not intrusive. https://www.adminsoftware.biz

It has lots of features, including payroll with RTI, but you can run it in a simplified mode. Of course I haven't tried that, given my background! I'm not sure if I'll be using it yet. I'll admit I found it a bit annoying, as I was trying to customise it, and some of the complex features needed quite a bit of setting up to work properly, but that shouldn't bother anyone who didn't run an accounting services business for years, was a Sage dealer, and did all sorts of things with Sage that Sage themselves didn't think could be done

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15983

Posted: Fri May 24, 13 6:32 am Post subject:

We gave up with Quickbooks and use Sage now. You can customise it fairly well, and while I don't understand it properly, you can use it on all sorts of levels. I use it at the simplest level, so if the business expands, we ever get someone who understands these things, or whatever, it is there. It also has the advantage that the accountant uses it, so it makes it simpler for them to check the books.

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Fri May 24, 13 10:00 am Post subject:
I do indeed use Quickbooks. I've found it a delight to use. Setting up VAT in the first instance is a bit of a pain, but a doddle to use thereafter. I know VP and EV had a nasty incident with VAT miscalculation, but thus far it has worked a dream for me. A.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri May 24, 13 10:37 am Post subject:
Wait until it gets unstable....

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Fri May 24, 13 10:44 am Post subject:
If that ever happened I'd just revert the QBW files to the last known good copy. Backups, backups, backups... A.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri May 24, 13 10:58 am Post subject:

Shan wrote:

Wait until it gets unstable....

You're preaching to the hard of hearing. He's the one person that still willingly has a blackberry.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Fri May 24, 13 11:01 am Post subject:
Bah. All of the above do what I want, and well. A.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri May 24, 13 11:05 am Post subject:
QuickBooks make you poor and keeps you that way.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri May 24, 13 11:22 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Shan wrote:

Wait until it gets unstable....

You're preaching to the hard of hearing. He's the one person that still willingly has a blackberry.

Poor deluded man....

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