Costly Accounting Software contract

Costly Accounting Software contract

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Hi,

I have migrated my firm from PSF financials to Sage 200 (not my choice :-() but we have a contract in place for the former for 6 months notice and even the one user archive licence after 6 months notice is ridiculously expensive. My thoughts are then to dump to the entire ledgers into Excel and then rid. On second thoughts I'm thinking that's a bit extreme in terms of ease of reference access etc.

Are there any other methods of storing old electronic accounting records that everybody can still access for a while?

Thanks in advance

Matthew

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By Mark Three
10th Feb 2016 14:27

probably Excel

I think it worth dumping to Excel.  In the past we changed tax software that prevented you from accessing the old data when your licence had expired.  What I found was that I could read data via notepad, but that was a bit hit and miss and you had to guess which record to look at.  So that would lead me back to the Excel dump.

 

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By tom123
10th Feb 2016 14:36

ODBC Data tables

Do you have any ODBC data tables set up.

I feel sure these would continue to work.

I use Sage 200 - I am sure you will get to like it.

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By MDK45
21st Feb 2016 18:32

Thanks. I was wondering if there's better ways to store data than Excel. Admittedly Excel is a 'safe pair of hands' but for accessibility for multiple users with limited excel skills it could be a 'pain'.

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