(MYOB) Mind Your Own Business v. 13

by MYOB

Product Details

• ASIN: B0000SWYXS
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 29, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,368 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Mind your own business easily, expertly, and efficiently with the powerful accounting management tools and services in MYOB Plus. Use it all or just what you need:

• Setup Wizard
• 100 Business Templates
• Checkbook Register
• Customizable Quotes/Orders/Invoices
• Customizable POs
• Receivables/Payables
• Integrated Payroll
• Inventory Management
• Contact Management
• Professional Time Billing
• Customizable Reports
• Job Costing
• Purchases/Payables
• Multi-User Ready
• To-Do List
• Credit Card Processing Service
• Direct Deposit Service

MYOB Plus will save you time and money and help keep your business on track. Email financial and management reports, invoices, quotes, and orders directly from Plus. Send reports to Microsoft Excel and create ready-made letters with direct links to Word. Easily track your profit and loss and other financials with a click of the mouse.

Accept credit cards and offer your employees direct deposit through optional, cost-effective services which are fully integrated with MYOB Plus. Plus will grow with your business due to its multi-user capabilities. Streamline your business with MYOB Plus today!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A ray of hope..... How to decide for yourself, October 10, 2004

By 

D. Cannon "Business Founder" (CertTest Training in Grapevine "Dallas" TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: (MYOB) Mind Your Own Business v. 13 (CD-ROM)

I, like you, have been wading through the sea of worthless hyped information in search of a decent small business accounting package. I'm not an accountant, I am small business owner with a mission. When I asked my small biz friends what they were using the usual offer was to loan me a copy of their quickbooks cdrom. I declined each time while asking more probing questions. The #1 QB complaint was too many upsell ads followed by complaints about QB's cumbersome steps. All recommended at least 12 hours of self training before using QB. Three of five said they had quit using quickbooks pro. Two had outsourced accounting to a part time bookkeeper for about $1500 month. Over the years I worked in consulting. I was on the project team for installation and conversion of the worlds largest installation of Oracle Financials (at Zales Jeweler's). The moral learned was that consultants NEVER recommend something that cuts into future consulting revenue. So why do accountant's pitch QB??? Is it popularity, apathy or greed? Interesting that CNET reviews of QB don't display any score. CNET gives MYOB a 7.7 and SA is 7.0. So how could I possibly compare with that data? The answer is that it's not possible. While most people would give up and simply roll the dice on QB - My stubborn dedication drives me to seek a better answer.

Facts discovered so far:

1) ALL the old QB reviews are bad signs, Many of the old MYOB reviews were somewhat good with certain conditions.

2) MYOB offers a free flash tutorial & 30 day moneyback or you can take the trial download. http://www.myob.com

3) Small business owners are pioneers, control freeks, willing to give-up a steady paycheck to purse an uncertain path to their dreams. We take our chances and make our own money. I can't get ahead by just following the pack.

4) You will have to invest some effort to learn a new product. I planned on 12 hours over one weekend.

5) I need a good solid bookkeeping system. Advanced forcasting just does not apply in small business. We always want more and need to focus on better marketing & promotions. No accounting package would have forcasted my sales growth correctly. A good promotion can completely change your future. (You can really kick start sales with "Free Publicity" by my new friend Jeff Crilley (Fox News) and "Ultimate Marketing Plan" by Kennedy).

6) I will always have to pay for annual upgrades anyway.

7) You should expect tech support is usually a low paid warm body reading from the manual. Good training on my end is the better strategy for most issues. (search on myob training)

I downloaded the free trial from MYOB.com along with the tutorial. My control freek nature wants to make a program conform to me, but I have agreed to give it a chance using it as designed. Next week I will reload the system and begin using it for daily operations. So far it looks good for my service business... Try it yourself before cratering to QB. Your future may depend on it.

I wish you all the best in your endeavor,

David Cannon

President

CertTest Training Centers - Management Certification Training

http://www.certtest.com

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MYOB Still Beats Quickbooks, August 26, 2005

By 

Joe Bruce (Somewhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: (MYOB) Mind Your Own Business v. 13 (CD-ROM)

Intuit treat me (their customer) with complete contempt. Every year they make piecemeal upgrades to their software instead of sitting down to do the job properly with major releases every 3 to 4 years. MYOB is the small business accounting leader outside the US. My take is that MYOB spend their money on PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT whereas Intuit spend their money on ADVERTISING. I am a MYOB convert. The package is robust and has more features than Quickbooks. Minor whiney comments like "doesn't print duplicate invoices" (ever heard of multipart forms???) just don't stack up. Software is very stable and quite intuitive.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Quickbooks Converters be cognizant..., June 4, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: (MYOB) Mind Your Own Business v. 13 (CD-ROM)

I ordered this product knowing that it had a freely available Quickbooks converter. The Quickbooks converter, while simple, did not do what I had hoped:

1) For any bank accounts, it carried over the balance accurately but it did not carry the register.
2) Transactions carry over as "historical transactions." You will not be able to see the specific details of these transactions (apart from the balance) in MYOB.
3) Along with that, if you run a statement on any preconversion purchases, all it will say is "Preconversion Sale" which is confusing to a customer who has no idea you "converted." I have not found a way to edit this.
4) It didn't pull my customer data well. The data is all there but it put the customer name in the address field as well as the name field so my invoices come out with the name twice and then the address.
5) Also know that you have to pick a conversion date and it must be the first of a month. It will not accept any transactions dated prior to that conversion date.

The software in and of itself is decent. I have some minor issues with the fact that I can't use my scrolling mouse and that the form customization interface doesn't have tool tips but otherwise the interface is not too difficult to navigate and I haven't come across any major problems that weren't directly related to the conversion.