Customer Reviews

MYOB Accountedge 2005 (Mac)

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I've used MYOB AccountEdge (version 4, release 7.50, for Macintosh) for nearly 18 months. Buying this software was one of my worst mistakes.

Unlike Quicken, you can't connect to your bank and download credit card purchases, statements, etc. Everything has to be entered by hand.

Finding mistakes is difficult. If my employee enters the date as 1/23/05 instead of 11/23/05, MYOB changes the records for January. I see that November's accounts don't reconcile. But there's no mistake in November...or October, September, etc. I have to look back thru the year's records to find the mistake. With my old accounting system I could close the books each month. That way all mistakes made in the next month would be somewhere in the current month's records.

The bank accounts don't list a running balance. You get today's ending balance but you can't see the balance after each transaction (e.g., whether last month's balance is the same as it was a month ago!).

There's no way to reconcile paper receipts against accounted purchases. Sometimes I pay by credit card, then the supplier sends a paper invoice saying "Balance Due" and I send a check. Most suppliers call me and tear up the check, but with my old accounting system I caught one supplier that double-billed me over $3000.

The first keystroke is lost on some fields. E.g., when you type in an address or telephone number, the first number isn't recorded. If you're not paying attention the address or phone number is wrong.

MYOB will search for invoices by date, invoice number, customer name, and amount. Not by location, item purchased, etc. Same for the customer and supplier databases, some fields can be searched but not all.

When you enter a new customer, the customer ID number field doesn't auto-increment. I have to use Filemaker Pro to generate the customer ID numbers.

The documentation is minimal. I had to write a manual for my employee to use, taking up too much of my time.

There's no way to create a pro forma invoice (an invoice that doesn't appear in the accounts receivable list).

MYOB's templates don't include a chart of accounts based on Schedule C.

There's no Preferences for setting that payments usually go into a primary bank account, that your billing is usually Net 30, your usual shipping method is UPS Ground, etc. Your employee has to click all this for every invoice and payment, and I assure you they will make mistakes.

MYOB can't check the Postal Service website to see if an address is correct, integrate with the UPS website to create a shipping label, connect to my bank to process a credit card, etc. When a customer calls to buy something I have to open four applications and go to three websites.


MYOB opens a little window for every new thing (sales register, customer address, invoice, payment, etc.). The little windows always open in the middle of the screen, on top of each other. This would be ideal for users with 640x480 13" monitors. But I have a 23" monitor. My screen will fit six of the little windows, if I move them around. But then the next little window opens right in the middle, then I have to move it out of the way, etc.

MYOB just looks ugly, like it was designed for Windows then ported to the Mac.

Bought this product based on an Apple consultant recommendation - best thing I did. The interface is so easy and install process assistant got me up and running within 10 minutes. Everything is right in front of me and I know exactly all I can do in each section of the product following the cool navigation tool - "Command Center" design.

I'm not an accountant - don't want to be - just want to get paid and track my customers, sales, etc. - This product does it all. Bonus - I can charge credit cards in the software and the rates are WAY LOW!!

This is one of the best Accounting software titles available, for any platform. While QuickBooks will not let an "advanced" user (someone with a good knowledge of Accounting) to see what is going on and enter double-accounting transactions directly, MYOB AcccountEdge lets you do either way you prefer. One of the best Mac software titles available. It makes the entire process fun. Highly recommended. You will not be disappointed. Check also the online tutorials for FirstEdge on the MyOB site to get an idea of how easy and pleasant this software is to use.

MYOB has a great product here that has the opportunity to rule the SOHO Macintosh space. Unfortunately, their inability to provide customer support limits their growth potential.

Almost a good program but its shorfallings make it very frustrating to use. It's like a pickey women (or man) and you are going to spend more time trying to keep it happy than you will doing books. ie. Write a purchase order and then find out you were off by a penny. Sure, you can fix it. But only after a long and complicated task. It's hard to believe these people aren't scarecrows in Kansas. Also the invoice price area is too small. I can't see the entire price on big orders and there is no way to adjust it. There are little quirks like these all over the program. I highly recommend finding another program. But for Mac OS, good luck!

After 20 years of good experience with Peachtree accounting software, I had to change because Peachtree stopped supporting Macs.

Switching to MYOB was a mistake. This company is ONLY concerned with getting more money out of you. Their free tech support only answers 1 question, then nothing. They charge a fortune for tax tables. They are so concerned about software theft that they make their product difficult for registered users to use.

I'm changing software after only 2 years on MYOB. It will take a lot of time to move my information over, but it's worth it just to get away from these problems.

I bought this version on the promise that my data from Quickbooks Pro for Mac could be translated over to MYOB. This just isn't true. What you get when you transfer is your contacts and your account list with a balance in each account. You lose all of your transaction history. This is not a data transfer, just creation of accounts with an opening balances. Comments in the past had glowed about this program. More recent ones do not. If you have a quickbooks system and want to leave that package (for good reasons) MYOB will not work for you.