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melissa77368


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I have made the devision to start up my own booking business but I'm now struggling to work out which software to use.

ive looked at sage, quickbooks and kashflow briefly and my head is in a mess!

Some advice would be greatly received on what to do

thanks



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Hi Melissa

Would it best to use the software you're already familiar with?

Have a look at vt transaction+, it comes with a 60 day trial but if Sage and Quickbooks are giving you headaches it may not be to your liking.



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Personally I use VT Transaction+, VT Accounts and 12pay for payroll.

You may find that the software that you use is dictated by clients but where it is not you need to ensure that your software of choice will handle multiple clients for one price.

Both VT+ and Quickbooks Pro are unlimted clients. Sage you have to pay through the nose for for get multi client.

Try a couple of months free trial from VT and see if you like it (some do, some don't).

Yopu may enjoy this thread which is not actually as one sided as the title would suggest :

www.book-keepers.org.uk/t43689388/convince-me-that-i-dont-need-sage/

Its an old thread and quite out of date, but the sentiments in it remain largely true.

HTH get you started,

welcome to the forum.

kindest regards,

Shaun.

p.s. I note that you have posted in two seperate threads. I'm going to clear the other oner up. For info, regulars here just use the recent posts tab rather than going to specific sub forums.



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Hi John,

snap. :D

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melissa77368


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Thank you all for your advice. I will get researching again this weekend ğ

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Welcome to the madhouse!!!

Definitely don't go with the sage cloudy nonsense. Admittedly it's had some improvements over the last few months but it's still bloomin awful. You might find sage for multi client is a bit off putting on the price front. Sage will tell you that you can only get it on a monthly subs basis, but that's not true, at least for now, as you can still get a perpetual licence.

I don't use VT, but the terrible two who have just posted do, plus a pile of others on here, so as long as you are comfortable with your double entry, I would add my two penorthworth in for that one. QuickBooks pro multi client is good value.

I use Moneysoft for payroll and CIS.

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Oops, forgot to add, do a search for software, cloud etc on the forum and you will find loads of stuff.



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