Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008

by Peachtree Software

Product Features

• Robust core accounting software for small businesses
• Job costing
• Time and billing
• In-depth inventory
• Multi-user option*

Product Details

Manual [7.94mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000PKVYSW
• Item model number: PCW2008RT
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,105 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2008 provides robust core accounting for small businesses, plus advanced features like job costing, time and billing, and in-depth inventory capabilities. Its multi-user option improves productivity while providing screen-level security and a clear audit trail. More than 125 customizable business reports and financial statements are available. Save time with simplified navigation, enhanced integration with Excel, multi-tasking screens, and comparative budgeting. Audit Trail helps you track errors and deter fraud. Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 is ideal for people who want accuracy and control, so they can achieve better business results.

Product Description

Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 is ideal for small business people who want accuracy, control and better business results. It combines robust core accounting with advanced features like job costing, time and billing, in-depth inventory capabilities and analysis tools. Complete Accounting 2008 also contains features to customize and controll Payroll. It lets you choose among 125+ customizable business reports and financial statements. Payroll solutions Time and billing job costing - Know in an instant if a job is worth starting, before you even begin! Easily determine which jobs are more profitable by comparing all job expenses Fixed assests - Calculate depreciation easily, quickly, and accurately Analysis and reporting - Easily select more fields to include on your report, expand your filtering options and sort your reports by more fields than ever Quickly and easily perform what if analysis to understand the impact of changing business conditions with the Peachtree Cash Manager Use the Payment Manager to drill down through four levels of aging analysis Detail Transaction Report Time savers and customization Option for multiple users (additional licenses required); Option online bill paying and reconcilliation Windows Vista Compatible Owners receive 30 days free support upon registration Works with Windows 2000 SP3, XP SP2, Vista / Integrates with Excel, Outlook and Word

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Excruciatingly Slow! A downgrade from previous versions., October 9, 2007

By 

Jake Glenford (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 (CD-ROM)

I have been a Peachtree customer for over 17 years. I had not upgraded for a few years and felt this would be the time to do so. Some of the new features looked quite attractive. The first thing I noticed after insalling the multi-user version on my network is that they had changed the datbase from the Novell btrieve format to Pervasive SQL. I thought this would be good as I have usually noticed SQL databases run faster. Boy was I mistaken. The program ran so slow it was unusable. Different windows might take 30 seconds to pop up and another screen would take 20 seconds to save. The confusing thing was the behavior was not consistent it would run fast for a few transactions then revert to running slow. Peachtree technical support told me my server was not fast enough to handle the new version even though all my other software programs ran fine on the network. I should have been suspicious because Peachtree ran this slow even when I was the only one using the network. Nevertheless, I bought a new $3,600 Server and much to my dismay Peachtree ran just as slow. Then Peachtree Technical support claimed it was my network switch so I bought a newer one for $650. No improvement. I could see what was coming next. They claimed it was my workstations. I was about to upgrade the 3 bookkeeping computers anyway so I spent $1,950 each to buy very fast systems for the 3 of them. Still no change. I have searched around the Internet and found that I am not the only one to have these problems. It seems that the newest versions of Peachtree with the Pervasive SQL database where only designed to be run in Single user mode and not on a network. They built the network functions on later. I am very upset with Peachtree technical support for lying to me. If they would have told me the truth that there where some problems with the network abilities in the new version of Peachtree and that they were working on them, I would have saved thousands of dollars in new hardware that they claimed I needed. The last thing they told me was that I just needed to upgrade to Peachtree Quantum Accounting because it ran much faster. That would cost me thousands more. They must be kidding. I will never trust them again. My old version ran fine but they tell me there is now way to downgrade my data files. I am looking around for another brand of software now. If it can painlessly convert my Peachtree data I will switch.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So Much promise, so frustrating, September 24, 2007

By 

Kevin Svenconis "KCSVEN" (NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 (CD-ROM)

I've used Peachtree and Quickbooks between different jobs going back 17 years and always loved Peachtree software. It was always great value for the price.

The Good: Added some very useful reporting parameters, most reports can be by any date instead of by just periods, you can easily customize your reports in any and all manners, most of the stuff you always needed an ad-on to do you can now do within Peachtree. All the functionality and changes made were well thought out and very useful(Maintaining Vendors and customers is better laid out etc...). It IS Vista compatible, the first version that is fully Vista Compatible.

The Bad: It runs so slow you want to scream. It is mind boggling how they could screw this up. The previous versions run relatively speedy on common workstations. I have a new computer that was bought in March and was a $3000 computer: fast in all aspects and it still runs slow. You call up a vendor or save one and you get the little "I'm busy" circle for a few seconds. They sell a much more expensive version with a different style database that is suppose to run extra fast, for large files especially, I'm not sure if this is there way of getting people to spend a couple thousand dollars on that or what BUT even file size does not matter. I have companies with 2-3MB and companies with large data files and the ALL of them run slow.

Recomendation: Unless you have to have fill Vista compatibility stay with 2007 and hope with 2009 they fix the speed issue because the functionality is the best yet and the program can do more for the money than any software out there. They really dropped the ball on what should have been a great upgrade.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, February 28, 2008

By 

D. Wesolowski - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 (CD-ROM)

I've used Peachtree since the 80's when my boss brought me one of the first Mac desktop computers and gave me his credit card to buy an accounting program. I've used it on both Mac's and PC's and I've found Peachtree to be easy to use and so flexible. Since so many people are using Quickbooks these days I decided to purchase the Pro series to see if it was a better produce...that was a mistake. With Peachtree I was able to design my own report layout and I find it so much easier to use in all aspects. I couldn't even get QB to give me a total for deposits and checks at the bottom of my check register...and don't get me started on the way QB payroll reports print out. Just know that you'll have to purchase a lot more paper. Buy Peachtree...in my view....it's a far superior product. It will make any accounting/bookkeeping tasks easier.