Alternatives to MYOB

As you may already be aware, the PC versions of MYOB have been taken off the UK market. For those people currently using MYOB there is a pressure to transfer to other software. Mac users and those PC users of older MYOB products need to consider if they wish to make a positive decision to stay with one of the various versions of MYOB, rather than shift to an alternative. This blog evaluates the options. Your comments on the alternatives are welcomed.

I hope others will have time to read the review criteria report that I have written to appreciate the issues which I think are important.  I think that a wish to do the best for the clients applies to most people involved; however the way in which we each assess the options does differ.  This is not the method that would be used by a consultant that services many different sorts of software. Nor is it the same as the sales reps or managers from one of the software houses.

The cost of making a change

There is a fear that with any transfer of accounting information the change will itself be costly. While this decision may seem important to you, a software user, consider the matter from my point of view. Before I invest another 15 years thoroughly learning a piece of sophisticated financial software I need to be sure that it will be successful for my clients and will survive the competition from other software providers.

After careful reviewing and testing we have found the following pieces of good software that we believe are suitable for the majority of our clients. The items are not listed in an particular order but will aid potential and existing users in making their decisions.

Please see the attached pdf for our top recommendations of alternatives to MYOB.

Download our Top Recommendations.pdf review

The following software were good alternatives however we felt these were either too costly for small and medium size businesses or did not meet our expectations.

Download our Main Alternatives.pdf Review

Below are further software’s we have reviewed. We have found them to be not as good enough as our top recommendations or main alternatives.

Download our Other Reviewed Software.pdf Review

We would not recommend the following programs that we have also reviewed. This were either too lightwieght or did not have enough features to be fully implemented in a small business setting.

Download our Not Recommended.pdf Review

The following web based accounting packages caught our attention.

Generally these are not as comprehensive as standalone packages in their functionality. In particular they generally omit stock control functions. FreeAgent Central provides an all encompassing tax calculation feature. However we would stress that many are still weak for heavy business users. Web based systems would benefit those who require a quick and easy solution for simple business operations.

Download our Web based.pdf Review

Below is a selection of good personal finance software we managed to review while undertaking our research. None are recommended for the sort of business users Simple Accounting represents.

Download our Personal Finance.pdf Review

These notes were taken by Mark during the Mamut AccountEdge Presentation on 15/3/2010 – Mark has recorded things more or less as they happened on the day.

Brief Summary

1. Introduction of Mamut AccountEdge
2. Apple Presentation
3. Mamut Requirements and Features
4. New version and old license issues
5. Further developments

Download out AccountEdge Presentation Notes.pdf