It's difficult for anyone working full-time in accounting/consulting to find opportunities to actually use the software they sell and consult on themselves: to run a shop and experience 'real-world' use of the product. To eat your own dog food, to use one of those strange but useful expressions that's come from the tech industry.All parents with children in sports clubs, swimming in my case, will know that sinking feeling that comes with the receipt of the relentless (but total necessary) requests for help with the club. Desperate to avoid anything that involved responsibility whatsoever for any actual swimming such I was suffering from a degree of guilt for not contributing.My ‘opportunity’ came with the chance to take over the club shop. I say 'shop' but, to put it in context, it is very literally a ‘pop-up’ that pops-up on a table at the pool for a couple.Posted by Jonathan White on December 04, 2016. One of the those questions that comes up quite frequently with Checkout users is now to move the program and data file to a new Mac.First off, you need to decide if you want to upgrade to Checkout 4; take a look for details of the new features and improvements.If you decide to upgrade then you can download the software onto your new Mac via the trial button on the Checkout site.If you want to stay with Checkout 3 you'll need to email Checkout support and ask for a link to the download. Either way, install the program on your new Mac. Provided your new Mac hasn't had a previous Checkout installation, you'll get 30 days before you need to transfer your licence from the old Mac.If you've gone for Checkout 4 you can register it with the serial you'll be given.Posted by Jonathan White on April 30, 2016.
It's probably fair to say that big new features have dominated AccountEdge upgrades in recent years: web store integration and serial number tracking being examples; features that appeal to a particular niche amongst users and potential users. The great thing about small business accounting over the last five years or so has been the plethora of software and apps that have emerged to make running a business that bit easier. All former MYOB users here in the UK who were using the software back in 2008 will remember the situation we found ourselves in when MYOB announced that they were pulling out of the UK. Mamut, a software company based in Norway, stepped in and took over the MYOB customer base.
Their intention was to migrate the MYOB Windows users to their own accounting products which obviously left a bit of a void, to say the least, for MYOB Mac users. Fortunately a deal was struck with Acclivity, a US company who by then had taken ownership of the MYOB Mac product and renamed it AccountEdge, that let Mamut distribute the AccountEdge products in the UK.There were two issues, the first being the departure of the MYOB Windows product, which we could do nothing about but, to some extent, was mitigated by Mamut's later decision to.Posted by Jonathan White on December 30, 2015. Many AccountEdge users sell stock that's been received on a sale or return basis from suppliers. Throughout the MYOB days here in the UK and more recently with AccountEdge we've trained people to use the software for their business accounting. One of the key things that we've learnt ourselves over the years is that the old adage ‘different things suit different people’ that you sometimes hear in relation to accounting software in general applies equally to training people on AccountEdge.Some users are happy to do pretty much everything needed to produce a data file that their accountant can rely on for the year end accounts and tax work.
Others want to do everything apart from, say, their VAT returns or bank reconciliations; and some are happy to just use AccountEdge for sales invoicing. The obvious issue for anyone training clients to use AccountEdge is closing the circle between the amount of work the user is comfortable with and what's needed to submit VAT returns and annual accounts.Posted by Jonathan White on October 29, 2015. For anyone not already familiar with Shopify, it's a leading ecommerce platform that makes building and running a fully-featured webstore straightforward.In short, the AccountEdge integration closes off that black hole that often exists between webstores and accounting software by taking accounting data directly from the webstore.Up until a year or so ago AccountEdge's webstore integration was with Enstore, another Acclivity product. Enstore allowed you to build a relatively simple (and free) webstore that could import a product list including images from AccountEdge then push back sales and payment information into AccountEdge.
Enstore was a great product but lacked the plethora of features and add-ons found in a cutting edge product like Shopify.Consequently the decision was taken to discontinue Enstore and instead integrate AccountEdge (and Acclivity's Mac point of sale product, Checkout) with.