Myob Plus 12

by MYOB

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JUMS
• Item model number: MPURW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 11, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,742 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #44 in Software > Business & Office > Business Accounting > Payroll
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

MYOB Plus 12 is your complete business accounting, tracking, and payroll solution. Loaded with features, it's ready to help you take control of any and every facet of your business, from customer accounts, inventory, and accounts payable to purchase orders and more.

An indispensable tool for small business owners, MYOB Plus 12 lets users create and track everything imaginable: customer accounts, banking, sales, POs, and so on. It also generates comprehensive reports so business owners know exactly where they stand at any time.

With additional network licenses available, MYOB is ready to be shared across a peer-to-peer network so multiple users can enjoy its many merits. A business owner, for example, might want the company's payroll manager or inventory manager to share the MYOB accounting and tracking system. With MYOB Plus 12, it's possible.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not quite good enough anymore..., December 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Myob Plus 12 (CD-ROM)

I've been using MYOB Accounting Plus for two years (started with version 10) and I'm getting tired of its inadequacies. It was a huge step up from Peachtree and One-Write Plus as far as program stability and networking, but it still does not suit my needs.

Pros:
-Great stability, never crashes or causes data loss
-Works well with a small network (additional [$$$] license fee per workstation applies)
-Easy to learn and operate
-Really neat customer support website that looks like it might help a few people

Cons:
-Must upgrade to newest version each year if using payroll functions (upgrade fee is about [$$$] less than full price of latest version)
-Customer service is separated into two groups...those who can't really help you with your problem but they can sell you some business forms and those who refer you to group one.
-Need help? [$$$] per year will allow you to get technical support, but don't expect much. They basically read out of the user's manual for you.
-Business forms are proprietary so no more free W-2s from Uncle Sam...expect to pay [$$$] for something that should be free with your yearly [$$$] upgrade
-MYOB claims it provides custom financial reports...I suppose if you call changing color schemes and fonts "custom." Expect to print out two or three reports to get the information that should be included in one report.
-Back to stonage bookkeeping when it comes to finance charges or discounts. Do you have customers that pay late or early? Might as well figure those finance charges by hand because MYOB does not keep track of them. And discounts aren't kept track of on the statements...I have to write mine in by hand.

Overall:
MYOB is a great package for small businesses that have 100 or fewer customers and a dozen employees. If you look for your business to grow then this package might impede that progress unless you can overlook the minor problems. Expect to work harder than the MYOB software package does.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I threw Quick Books Away, February 18, 2003

By A Customer

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Myob Plus 12 (CD-ROM)

I have been using Quick Books before MYOB and just did not like the interface at all. Took far to long to get around in it or to quickly find something or lookup a past entry. Search feature was poor at best.

MYOB is much easier to use. Straightforward approach to doing anything. Entry forms are much easier to use than QB. Something else that always bothered me was QB was always trying up upsale me with support at a zillion dollars a year. I had a simple question once that was NOT covered in the Qucik Books maual or online help. Quickbookss wanted $ to answer the question which would have taken less than two minutes! Really ... me off.

I haven't set up my books completly yet but have been working on it for the last three days non stop. I can tell you that as far as easy of use, it's light years ahead of QB.

Quick Books, their tech support, and their upsale attempts, are going in the trash this week. MYOB has made a GREAT product! I haven't used all the report features yet but I think for my needs (small business doing $500K or so a year) that it will be fine.

Anyone want to form a Quick Book haters support group? I'd be the first to join!

David

26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MYOB Plus ROCKS!, November 13, 2002

By 

Kate Lewis (Bangor, Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Myob Plus 12 (CD-ROM)

This product should be called... 'The Intelligent Business Partner'.

I got MYOB Plus so that I could figure out how to stop giving my accountant so much money to do my books. Little did I know that doing my own books would lead me to various time-saving procedures that makes my business processes more efficient. These accounting software companies like to talk about these 20,000 foot-level virtues of using their software but in this case, I've found it to be true. My staff and I save probably an hour a day using MYOB Plus as an estimates & invoicing tool. Bottom line, I can email estimates & invoices to customers right from MYOB - rather than doing this by hand, using fax machines, getting busy signals, re-sending, etc.. I've also discovered something called a ToDo list which provides immeasurable value to the running of my business.

And, the reason I got it in the first place, I now have the ability to get financial reports whenever I want them - and at no extra cost. Of course, I've also discovered the really neat sales and receivables reports so I know who owes me what and when.

I now wonder how I did all of this before I went with this accounting software.