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Is there not a forum where we can all discuss the pros and cons of all the accounting software ?
I've been looking at Zoho, Quickbooks, Kashflow, Xero, Clearbooks and FreeAgent - trying where possible to actually use them for some real -life accounts, but they all seem to have some horrible shortcomings, most commonly in that lack of flexibility in the nominal code structure. For example, I loved the simplicity of FreeAgent, and the neat postcode and company details lookups of ClearBooks (which saves no end of typing), but you can't amend any balance sheet codes in FreeAgent (so to cope with a temporary loan of monies to a client, we had to create a bank account) and the code structure in Clearbooks is somewhat amendable but so many are undeletable you couldn't possibly have your own code structure.
Quickbooks outputs a TB with the code number and the code name as one text item (why would you do such a thing ?), Xero is quite inflexible when it comes to posting cash received which doesn't pertain to a particular invoice, on Zoho, when I tried to put some real accounts on it where the first deposit into the bank account was £101 being £1 share capital and £100 directors loan account - I gave up at that point - it was just too hard !
So it would be useful if everyone's findings (good or bad) can be posted on here to save everyone else from reinventing the (square) wheel !
I had the same problem with Quickbooks i.e. code number and code name being one text item. The solution i use is something like :-
=NUMBERVALUE(MID('IncomeStatementNominal'!G35,4,4))
The =MID selects the numbers, and the =NUMBERVALUE turns the numbers which are being recognised as text, into numbers - which means the VLOOKUP can find the number to link into.
But you shouldn't have to do that ! Grrrrr !
I have just spent about 30 minutes painstakingly ticking off 256 invoices on Kashflow for a single cheque batch payment (this is one months invoices for my supplier). You have to load 10 transactions, scroll down, load another 10 (and that's just to get back to April-16), I then had to tick them all off, pressing "load more" or whatever to get the next screen up, it took ages and my hand aches but I finally got the 256 invoices to agree to the amount of the cheque, pressed "Save" and was told the maximum amount of invoices I can include on a batch payment was 100 !!! So for every one of my suppliers cheques, I have to post three different payments to the bank to match off a month's invoices ? Let alone the hours and hours it would take of scrolling down, ticking boxes. This has just rendered Kashflow completely useless for this client. What a waste of my time and their money. These are the sorts of things we need to know before we waste days trying to implement a package which is not for the client. I have spent days just importing a whole years invoices for this client and getting the TB to balance and now it's all just wasted. I am gutted frankly.
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