Accounting packages
We need to get an accounting package now in order to cater for growth. Unfortunately we seem to fall midway between the small business packages (Intuit Quickbooks; MYOB; basic Sage) and the medium sized business packages (Sage Line 50; Opera II; SAP sbe; Dream/CODA; Sunsystems).
The former can be picked up for £300 or less whereas the latter fall into the £2500-£15000 range and require quite complex (i.e. costly) implementation. This issue is made worse by the fact that we are a manufacturer and this makes everything tricky as in the future we need to consider integrating with our manufacturing systems (production scheduling, purchasing, resource allocation, etc). Oh and then there is the issue of marketing as this whole thing can be considered as a full ERP+accounts+CRM.
We've been taking advice and reviewing our options. A good site for advice is http://www.accountingweb.co.uk but they don't tend to discuss the merits of the small packages. Quickbooks definitely looks expensive versus MYOB. And SAP is equally expensive versus Sage Line 50 and Opera II. And Sage has a dreadful reputation in fast-changing manufacturing environments. Dream/CODA and Sunsystems are more of an unknown quantity but first I think we need to choose between the small and medium sized packages. Right now MYOB Accounting Plus is looking pretty attractive.
The former can be picked up for £300 or less whereas the latter fall into the £2500-£15000 range and require quite complex (i.e. costly) implementation. This issue is made worse by the fact that we are a manufacturer and this makes everything tricky as in the future we need to consider integrating with our manufacturing systems (production scheduling, purchasing, resource allocation, etc). Oh and then there is the issue of marketing as this whole thing can be considered as a full ERP+accounts+CRM.
We've been taking advice and reviewing our options. A good site for advice is http://www.accountingweb.co.uk but they don't tend to discuss the merits of the small packages. Quickbooks definitely looks expensive versus MYOB. And SAP is equally expensive versus Sage Line 50 and Opera II. And Sage has a dreadful reputation in fast-changing manufacturing environments. Dream/CODA and Sunsystems are more of an unknown quantity but first I think we need to choose between the small and medium sized packages. Right now MYOB Accounting Plus is looking pretty attractive.
posted by David Sharman at 8:17 PM
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