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Kool Tools AccountEdge 2010
Acclivity’s AccountEdge 2010, the latest version of their small business accounting software for the Mac, is a solid update—especially if you need web store integration.
Among the new features are integration with Sofa’s web store Enstore, more detailed tracking of item information, profitability of a sale analysis, and bank deposit slip printing.
EnStore is the new web store developed by Acclivity’s Checkout partners, Sofa. This feature should appeal to anyone that wants to offer their customers a simple, elegant online shopping experience.
EnStore is a pay-as-you-go web store that integrates with AccountEdge. Products, images, pricing and other details are managed in AccountEdge and synced up to EnStore. AccountEdge pulls down new orders, customers, payments and taxes.
EnStore comes with the flexibility to customize your store, automatic shipping and tax rate lookup, hassle-free payment processing through major payment providers and a set of designed templates. EnStore comes with free setup, free hosting and unlimited bandwidth and storage. Several store templates come with EnStore; you can add your own pictures and descriptions.
Also, AccountEdge 2010 comes with more robust tracking of item information, including item weight, tagging functionality, brand association, Internet price, and the ability to attach up to three images to an item for multiple viewpoints. You can learn the profitability of a sale with the Show Profit Analysis button. It shows gross profit, margin, and cost of each item you’re selling and for the entire invoice. You can change the price per unit to see how it affects margin and profitability. You can show profit analysis from an order, quote, or an invoice.
You can now print out your bank deposit slips, while taking into consideration cash back on deposits, total cash, total checks, and number of items deposited. You can purchase accompanying deposit slips that come pre-printed with your account information, and take your deposit slips right to the bank.
AccountEdge 2010 offers list searching improvements. You can search by first name, last name, company name, phone number, and more. The new Search By feature works for vendors and items, too.
An “Open last company file” window comes with a new design that purportedly makes it easier to open your company file with the new Open Last file function. Open Last displays the last company file you opened, allowing you to start working with a single click.
The User Guide and Getting Started Guide are installed and accessible from the Help menu. Of course, you can always seek help from the support section of the AccountEdge web site. The Help menu gives you the choice of going to the website for help or searching the help files included in AccountEdge. Most windows in AccountEdge also include the Help icon, which displays information related to whatever section of the software you currently inhabit.
AccountEdge’s Auto Update feature automatically checks for any new software and payroll updates. Plus, you can back-up your file in .zip format to share your file with Windows users.
For more information on available accounting software, click here.
Popularity: 10% [?]
No commentsIntuit’s Switch to Online Services
Last month, Intuit Inc., a business accounting solutions provider, had more than 300,000 customers stranded when a power failure shut down the company’s servers. This was perhaps a wakeup call for Intuit to consider Software as a Service.
As planned by Brad Smith, CEO at the company, Intuit will transfer more than 75% of its sales to Web-based services by 2015. Intuit will make a series of internet company acquisitions. Additionally, the company will reform operations and product features so that Intuit applications, such as for TurboTax and Quicken, will run dependably as online services.
“We don’t have the luxury of going down,” Smith says. “We are required to be available, 24/7, and we’re doing everything we can to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
In the meantime, Intuit is making investigations into the June power outage and how it can be avoided in the future. Data centers will also be made more efficient and centralized. Smaller offices will be shut down and operations will be concentrated in an advanced, 240,000-square-foot facility built in Quincy, Washington.
According to Smith, the Intuit strategy since January 2008 has been to adapt from a desktop company to an internet company.
So far, the company provides online services to handle small business payroll and payments, manage health care costs, pay physicians, build websites, give financial advice, and process credit card charges over mobile phone. Intuit’s most conspicuous acquisition last year was $170 million for Mint.com, a service that records, analyzes, and creates graphics on data from consumer accounts on all spending habits. The company plans on integrating some Mint.com services with its other software offerings.
Popularity: 11% [?]
No commentsConstruction Industry Gets Revamped Accounting Software Solution from Sage!
Sage, a leader in accounting software, has tailored their accounting software to meet the needs of the construction industry. Sage Timberline Enterprise is accounting software made to fulfill the unique needs of construction companies everywhere. Sage Timberline Enterprise integrates core accounting functions with service management, job management, and an estimator estimate.
The benefits of Sage Timberline Enterprise are the newly designed process maps that allow customizable, visual representations of everyday tasks. Sage Timberline Enterprise also features a dispatch board that helps users visually schedule service workers by assigning the appropriate technician with the right skills to perform a job. Sage Timberline Enterprise is an all in one solution for those in the construction industry. Other products from Sage for the construction industry are Sage Timberline Office and Sage Master Builder.
Popularity: 14% [?]
No commentsIntacct, Top New Product of 2010
Accounting Today named Intacct as one of its Top New Products of 2010. The list was made up of the top products in 16 different categories, and Intacct was chosen as the winner of the Top Accounting/ERP Solution category.
Intacct is an established solution and its latest edition was praised as being extremely user-friendly and effective.
Intacct is so highly regarded that ten of the top 100 largest CPA firms use the software with their clientèle. More that 3,300 companies use Intacct accounting software, in a wide rage of ways; from automating financial processes to improving transparency.
The company stated that they are continually improving and developing on their software, and hope to continue to provide superior accounting solutions in the future.
Popularity: 17% [?]
No commentsSage Brings Accounting Software to the Mac
Mac has already seen strong growth in business adoption in the past few years and now with new business solutions software that are Mac compatible, accelerated growth seems inevitableExciting news for enterprises that use Macs as their IT platform-Sage 50 is now Mac compatible. Sage is a business management software solutions vendor with a suite of platforms in several sectors, including accounting.
Exciting news for enterprises that use Macs as their IT platform-Sage 50 is now Mac compatible. Sage is a business management software solutions vendor with a suite of platforms in several sectors, including accounting.
Apple Mac users can now enjoy the benefits of Instant Accounts and Sage Micropay Professional payroll software. “Demand has never been greater for complete and easy-to-use business software solutions on the Mac,” said Liam Mullaney, managing director at Sage Ireland. It was only a matter of time until Sage brought their user-friendly product to Mac’s user-friendly interface. “Sage Ireland is giving Mac users the functionality they are looking for while delivering the kind of user-friendly experience that drew them to the Mac in the first place,” said Mullaney.
Mac seems to be the IT platform of choice for several companies, however in the past accounting and payroll software had to be run on standalone windows-based PCs. Now that Sage’s accounting software is Mac compatible, businesses can integrate their business software on a single easy-to-use Mac platform.
Beryl Furlong, GM of Apple reseller Typetec explains that “Our Mac-based customers have for many years been looking for a sound, financial application that is supported on the Mac OS and I think this clearly offers a very attractive solution to them.”
Mac has already seen strong growth in business adoption in the past few years and now with new business solutions software that are Mac compatible, accelerated growth seems inevitable.
Popularity: 9% [?]
No commentsPeachtree by Sage Goes to The Middle East
This month, Sage Software announced a partnership agreement with ITE Distribution, which is one of Dubai’s top IT distribution conglomerates. Specifically, ITE will be broadening exposure in the Middle East for Sage’s Peachtree accounting software, and their ACT! contact and CRM solutions.
According to the contract, ITE will oversee all distribution activities for Peachtree by Sage and ACT!, from product launch, to in-store merchandising, to development with resellers. Particularly, they look forward to promoting Peachtree by Sage, with its capabilities to project cash flow, perform multi-year reports, give real-time alerts, and track expenses.
Regarding the motives behind the partnership, Sage cites they high regional demand for business and contact management applications. But the partnership will also bolster ITE’s position in the software market, as they were previously known as dealing mainly in hardware. Still, ITE put another feather in its cap earlier this year: they signed a contract to distribute Microsoft off-the-shelf software a couple months back.
Popularity: 3% [?]
No commentsQuickbooks Accounting for Cell Phones
Intuit, the creator of the well known Quickbooks Accounting application, has announced that it is developing another version of its extremely popular accounting software. This version will be geared towards small business owners and it will be made even more useful to small business owners by making it readily accessible and usable via cell phones. This new function should make the already popular Quickbooks Software even more popular.
The initial versions of Quickbooks for the cell phone will be stripped down versions with limited features. However, this is still a step in the right direction as Intuit tries to make QuickBooks more user friendly and easily available to its users. Initially the target market for this new functionality will be in Asia. This continued innovation by Intuit will help Intuit maintain its position as the top producer of accounting software products.
Popularity: 2% [?]
No commentsALCiE Accounting Software Celebrates 20th Year
ALCiE Integrated Solutions, a developer of business software solutions, is proud to mark its 20th anniversary for its ALCiE ERP/Accounting Software. Although ALCiE Software can be traced back for over 30 years, ALCiE’s current software traces back to its roots in 1988. ALCiE was one of Oracle’s first ERP/Accounting software offerings. Today, it maintains its popularity in offering an affordable and reliable business solution that has been kept up to date over the years with a number of modifications and adaptations to keep up with the everchanging business software market.
The 20 year milestone for AIS is a huge achievement and is a testament to the company’s values and products. To celebrate this monumental milestone, AIS is offering a promotion that allows referrers of new customers to generate income.
For more information about this new referral service, you can read the full article found here.
Popularity: 2% [?]
No commentsIntuit Believes There is No Preference for Online or OnPremise Software
The type of software busineses like to invest in is often a very important decision to make. The way software is delivered affects the way it is utilized in the company and also affects the pricing and cost of the use of the software. Traditional and Online Software both have their benefits and their drawbacks and Intuit believes that companies would really not care about how they choose to have their software delivered.
Intuit has taken a different approach with its accounting software in specifically gearing its product towards a targeted group of small companies. In addition it is also expanding its software products to include many other business software technologies which will also geared toward these same companies. Intuit is aware of the two different modes of software delivery and the doubts companies may have towards each one. To approach this problem, Intuit has decided to use a hybrid strategy in order to try and satisfy the needs of a variety of vendors.
To read more about this topic, you can read the full article found here.
Popularity: 2% [?]
No commentsAccounting Software Firm Continues to Grow
As more and more companies turn towards business technology software to help solve many of their business needs, software providers are continuing to expand and grow to meet the demand. Xero Software is an example of a company that continues to grow as it provides online accounting software for a number of companies.
Xero’s customer base has continued to grow rapidly, with its number of customers doubling in only a 6 month span. Xero’s growth is unusually strong for the time period as accounting software traditionally quiet during that time of year. Xero has also announced other positive news as it released its IPO last year allowing them to raise much needed money to allow further expansion of their company.
For more information on Xero Accounting Software and their continued growth, you can read the article found here.
Popularity: 3% [?]
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