Software for a Prospective Accountant - Solar Accounts or VT Transaction+

Hi,

I am a CIMA student and hope to start up a practice for SMEs one day. I don't have any practice experience, only management accounting and management consultancy, which might be the reason for my naive questions.. but please read on...

So here is how it goes... I have recently been researching various accountancy software packages. A lot of people talk good things about VT so I decided to trial their VT Transaction + software. It has been a week and I am struggling to find peace with it because it is not as user friendly as I had expected.

So then I discover Solar Accounts, pick it up in less than 5 minutes and wonder why is everyone going on about VT Transaction+?

Sorry for being thick in this matter, but could someone please elaborate on what makes Solar Accounts an inferior product to VT+, aside from the fact that VT+ can integrate into VT Final Accounts? Also on that note, I would be keen to hear from accountants who use Solar Accounts for any part of their service.

Thanks