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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
By D. Cannon
Update: Here's where I started exploring MYOB in 2004. Six years later I'm still happy with the decision to use MYOB. Hopefully this review will help you make a smart decision. - David Cannon
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, their usual offer was to loan me a copy of quickbooks on 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 have 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. Since 2004 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. [...]
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 Dan 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 [...] 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 Center - Management Development & Certification
Author, Sybex an imprint of John Wiley & Sons
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, their usual offer was to loan me a copy of quickbooks on 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 have 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. Since 2004 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. [...]
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 Dan 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 [...] 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 Center - Management Development & Certification
Author, Sybex an imprint of John Wiley & Sons
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By Michael
I purchased this software on a recommendation from another photographer friend who is using this for their studio. I must say, this software is unbelievably powerful! It does far more than I could ever possibly use.
The downside is that the software is complicated. I would highly recommend downloading the trial version and then seeking help from your accountant or another person already using the software. MYOB does include 30 day phone support and then you have to pay for service after that.
One last comment is that I always dealt with an individual there by the name of "Mike M" and his customer service was incredible! I can truly say that he went above and beyond doing his job to help me out.
If you have someone to help you through it, or would like to pay for the MYOB phone support, then I would say this software is probably the best choice for your business.
Best Wishes,
Michael
The downside is that the software is complicated. I would highly recommend downloading the trial version and then seeking help from your accountant or another person already using the software. MYOB does include 30 day phone support and then you have to pay for service after that.
One last comment is that I always dealt with an individual there by the name of "Mike M" and his customer service was incredible! I can truly say that he went above and beyond doing his job to help me out.
If you have someone to help you through it, or would like to pay for the MYOB phone support, then I would say this software is probably the best choice for your business.
Best Wishes,
Michael
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
We have been using the basic AE program for about two months now.
My wife, Suzanne, the bookkeeper in our home-based construction business, does all of the data input and record keeping.
We had come from about four years of using QB for Mac and it was, at best, a flawed program.
The funny part of this story is that we were all geared up to update to QB 2011 this past Spring and actually updated to an Intel-based iMac just to do that!
But when it came time to purchase QB 2011 I decided to read the reviews and I was less than impressed to say the least.
Instead of getting more Mac friendly and trouble-free nearly all I read was complaint after complaint about QB 2011 for Mac.
So I started looking into Mac compatible bookkeeping software and found AE.
The reviews looked promising so we downloaded the free trial and found the flow of the program to be
uncomplicated and straightforward.
The best part of it was we had the 30-day period to get free phone help so that is what we started to do.
First off I have to say Suzanne watched ALL of the tutorial videos online and they were very helpful.
When she got really bugged, however, she called the AE office and one of the tech staff there set up an appointment to go over the program with her using a virtual computer program that allowed him to access our computer and run the program live while Suzanne watched him move the cursor and change screens all the while listening to his explanations on the phone!
NO ONE at Intuit ever gave us this kind of outstanding service.
It turned out this man (sorry I don't have his name) helped to create many of the tutorial videos for AE.
All was going very well with Suzanne daily working away with AE getting all of our records entered. Then she started having issues with the spinning beach ball while doing almost every entry.
This went on for a couple of weeks and then she had a breakthrough.
She found that there was a mis-entry in the Setup Menu that had to do with sales taxes.
Since we don't pay sales taxes separately to our state (we pay them at the time of purchase) she deleted that from the Setup Menu.
Voila! No more spinning beachball. The program started to run like a deer once again.
Overall we are super pleased with AE and would recommend it to others with a small business.
We don't use even a fraction of its potential but for our purposes it is serving us well.
The customer service is excellent and that means a lot to us.
My wife, Suzanne, the bookkeeper in our home-based construction business, does all of the data input and record keeping.
We had come from about four years of using QB for Mac and it was, at best, a flawed program.
The funny part of this story is that we were all geared up to update to QB 2011 this past Spring and actually updated to an Intel-based iMac just to do that!
But when it came time to purchase QB 2011 I decided to read the reviews and I was less than impressed to say the least.
Instead of getting more Mac friendly and trouble-free nearly all I read was complaint after complaint about QB 2011 for Mac.
So I started looking into Mac compatible bookkeeping software and found AE.
The reviews looked promising so we downloaded the free trial and found the flow of the program to be
uncomplicated and straightforward.
The best part of it was we had the 30-day period to get free phone help so that is what we started to do.
First off I have to say Suzanne watched ALL of the tutorial videos online and they were very helpful.
When she got really bugged, however, she called the AE office and one of the tech staff there set up an appointment to go over the program with her using a virtual computer program that allowed him to access our computer and run the program live while Suzanne watched him move the cursor and change screens all the while listening to his explanations on the phone!
NO ONE at Intuit ever gave us this kind of outstanding service.
It turned out this man (sorry I don't have his name) helped to create many of the tutorial videos for AE.
All was going very well with Suzanne daily working away with AE getting all of our records entered. Then she started having issues with the spinning beach ball while doing almost every entry.
This went on for a couple of weeks and then she had a breakthrough.
She found that there was a mis-entry in the Setup Menu that had to do with sales taxes.
Since we don't pay sales taxes separately to our state (we pay them at the time of purchase) she deleted that from the Setup Menu.
Voila! No more spinning beachball. The program started to run like a deer once again.
Overall we are super pleased with AE and would recommend it to others with a small business.
We don't use even a fraction of its potential but for our purposes it is serving us well.
The customer service is excellent and that means a lot to us.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Basic functionality flawed
I started trying to switch to MYOB software several years ago to go all mac and did not because you basically have to scroll through items to put them in an invoice. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Dr. Horn
4.0 out of 5 stars
Glad to have it
Seems to be what I need....not to complicated as far as accounting, but robust enough to handle so many different aspects of business. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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1.0 out of 5 stars
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Published on June 12, 2010 by L. Rodgers
