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[Jamie Brougham]

We are mac based, however we have a PC for doing our accounting.
Our first priority is to find a good PO management system that is ideally excel based.

Then, we would like a PO management system that works on mac computers with an excel base. This will allow us to switch to Simply Accounting when doing invoicing.

We're over 20 years in the industry and want to create our own system. Please help if you can! Thanks

[benbaker]

We use the system that has been created by ASI. We've been using the dos version for years and are just about to update to the windows version. Nothing wrong with dos except that it is no longer being supported. I have looked at the way it interacts with Excel and seem to be fairly satisfied. Have no idea whether they have a Mac based version but it does handle PST and GST very well as well as allowing you to setup tax codes if you sell into the US or other provinces which we do.

Let me know if you want more info (PM me) and I'll get you to the right contact as ASI.

happy selling.

Ben

Jamie Brougham said:

We are mac based, however we have a PC for doing our accounting.
Our first priority is to find a good PO management system that is ideally excel based.

Then, we would like a PO management system that works on mac computers with an excel base. This will allow us to switch to Simply Accounting when doing invoicing.

We're over 20 years in the industry and want to create our own system. Please help if you can! Thanks

[wilwil]

We encountered similar issues in the past - we have an office based on Macs. we looked at numerous software packages and could not find one that would do the accounting, plus do sales quote, turn it into an order, then generate PO's and then seamlessly inegrate with the accounting fuctions.

After some research we have used Connected - see www.accounttek.com - and it is great! It works over our network and can work cross platform PC or MAC - everyone in our office can be on the system and it is still very quick and stable. I would highly reccomend it. (we are considered a mid sized distributor)

You enter an sales quote once - then you can convert it to an order (with edits if you need) then the order will generate your PO's - which you can check over and edit, then you convert the order to an invoice when you ship (and it is posted to your receivables) - you do not have to reenter the info over an over! - when the bills come in you bring up the PO that is in the system already and change it to a "bill" with the corresponding supplier info and now you are in your accounting side with payables ...

Good Luck
:D

Jeff
Wilson & Wilson

[wilwil]

I looked at the ASI software and they did not have a version for MACS. It was also considerably more expensive, but according to a good friend in the industry it works really well.

Take care!

Jeff Wilson

[Syb]

I have been Mac based for as long as we've had computers in the business. We got lucky with a programer who specialized in Macs and he created the program in Filmaker Pro. Filemaker is very powerful. It also updates easily.
Look into it. Lots of folks think we're pretty freaky with our Macs but they are Virus and Worm proof. And they are virtually unbreakable.
Good luck.

[wilwil]

Syb said:

I have been Mac based for as long as we've had computers in the business. We got lucky with a programer who specialized in Macs and he created the program in Filmaker Pro. Filemaker is very powerful. It also updates easily.
Look into it. Lots of folks think we're pretty freaky with our Macs but they are Virus and Worm proof. And they are virtually unbreakable.
Good luck.

MACS are great! We used the file maker solution when I first started. As the business grew we found it difficult to do the accounting and contact management with the filemaker solution. now we have ended up with Connected - www.accountek.com - I am thrilled. Like a MAC it just works - quoting-order entry- accounting -contact management and it works over the ethernet network perfectly with mutlitple users... it is also cross platform compatiable for MAC and PC (although once you go MAC why would you use a PC)

[hunterbz]

wilwil said:

We encountered similar issues in the past - we have an office based on Macs. we looked at numerous software packages and could not find one that would do the accounting, plus do sales quote, turn it into an order, then generate PO's and then seamlessly inegrate with the accounting fuctions.

After some research we have used Connected - see www.accounttek.com - and it is great! It works over our network and can work cross platform PC or MAC - everyone in our office can be on the system and it is still very quick and stable. I would highly reccomend it. (we are considered a mid sized distributor)

You enter an sales quote once - then you can convert it to an order (with edits if you need) then the order will generate your PO's - which you can check over and edit, then you convert the order to an invoice when you ship (and it is posted to your receivables) - you do not have to reenter the info over an over! - when the bills come in you bring up the PO that is in the system already and change it to a "bill" with the corresponding supplier info and now you are in your accounting side with payables ...

Good Luck
:D

Jeff
Wilson & Wilson

what does Accountek cost?

[promobob]

Hi All - I've been in the industry for over 18 years and for most of them have been an all MAC shop! At first we had created proprietary software that was a database/CMR, one hit entering system where you entered the Quote, which became the Order, Invoice, PO, Statement type system. Once we grew out of that (data-wise), we were forced to look for another solution. After about 2 years of searching, we ended up with ePromo/Vermotion. They have started doing a lot of advertising in the recent years and you may have heard of them. They do have a decent accounting side with a quickbooks download and i absolutely love the fact that you can be anywhere in the world and login to your system to review salespeople's number, enter quotes/orders or do whatever needs to be done. they also have an option to link company stores, a front end website, etc. to your back end order processing. the cost is quite affordable as well and you can manually back it up every night into excel spreadsheets. hope this helps.

[nycam]

We are all-Mac, and use MYOB AccountEdge, because it (was) the only networkable, somewhat more affordable, software, at the time we bough into it. It is a bit sluggish when three or more of us are using it, but it does fairly easily create quotes, convert them to invoices, and PO's must be separately entered :( which can get tedious. I would give it a higher ranking than their early effort, which was quite buggy, but would really like to get a program for our Macs that;
[a] work seamlessly with Miva Merchant or other e-cart program,
[b] automatically generate a customizeable invoice or bill, AND a PO to the distributor, if one is used, and
[c] doesn't cost me my first child, or require learning boolean algorythms :eek:.

[rdanziger]

I'm not a distributor, but if the ASI distributor software works as well (ugh!) as the supplier side... I wouldn't waste my money.