Product Description

Peachtree Complete Accounting is easy to startup and easy to learn. You get the tools you need to start working right away. There are Instructional Demos, Guided Tours, Navigation Aids, Setup Wizard, Sample Company Charts of Accounts, Check Off Task lists and it's easy to convert QuickBooks Version 4.0, Basic through Enterprise, to Peachtree files. Peachtree Complete Accounting also has additional standard accounting options such as: Customer registration and acceptance of the license agreement for Peachtree Software is required. Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000 SP3, or XP SP2 Pentium II (or equivalent), 300 MHz minimum 450 MHz or higher recommended 128 MB RAM minimum, 256 MB or higher recommended 250 MB available hard disk space Display settings of at least High Color (16 bit) SVGA Video; 800x600 resolution with small fonts CD-ROM Drive Mouse or compatible pointing device Additional 55MB available hard disk space is required to install the Guided Tour In-product demos require Macromedia Flash Player Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 required (6.0 SP1 provided on CD. Requires an additional 70 MB (or higher) available hard disk space to install) Online Services require Internet access. Minimum connection speed depends on service. Printers supported by Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Microsoft Word integration requires Word 2000, 2002 or 2003. Microsoft Excel integration requires Excel 2000, 2002 or 2003.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3586 in Software
• Brand: Sage
• Model: PCW2006RT
• Released on: 2005-06-20
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Complete accounting software; integrates with Microsoft Excel and Word
• Quickly generate customer quotes; detailed invoicing; 125+ business reports
• Create and track sales orders and back orders; onscreen "out of stock" warning
• Payment status tracking to view partial payment info and net due for invoices
• Comprehensive time tracking; info auto-flow to both invoices and paychecks

From the Manufacturer
Peachtree Complete Accounting includes the robust, multi-user-option accounting features you want, and helps provide the valuable insight you need. Better manage your accounting and business with advanced features such as online bank reconciliation* and Peachtree Bill Pay**, in-depth inventory, job costing, time and billing, and fixed assets.

Highlights:

• Invoicing
• Bill payment
• Payroll solutions
• In-depth inventory
• Job costing
• Sales orders
• Integrates with Microsoft Excel and Word
• 125+ business reports

Features:

• Generate Customer Quotes: Quickly and easily provide your customers with estimates for their orders by printing quotes! Your quote does not actually update your accounting information until the quote is converted to a sales order or invoice.
• Create and Track Sales Orders and Back Orders: Track your sales from order to invoice. Easily enter orders and track partial shipments, and always know what is on backorder with the onscreen "out of stock" warning or review the sales order report. Plus, make sure you accurately fulfill your shipments by using the pick-list report.
• Check Your Payment Statuses: Instantly know which purchases or invoices are paid in full, partially paid, past due, or unpaid so you can easily stay on top of who owes you and who you owe. Plus, use payment status tracking to view partial payment information and net due for any invoice.
• Customer Statements: use statements for billing your customers with detail from invoices, credit memos, and payments automatically printed on the statements.
• Receive Payments: Track each invoice until it's paid, even drill down to the detail in one click, and see how your receipts affect your balance. You also have the ability to print receipts detailing items sold and payments received upon recording Time of Sale payments.
• Easily Void Invoices: Voiding invoices is as easy as voiding checks! Voiding an invoice reverses out the transaction instead of deleting it. It will automatically update your balances and aging reports, while keeping an audit trail of the original transaction.
• Credit Memos: Easily create credit memos for your customers by linking to outstanding invoices. Just choose the invoice to apply to, record the amount returned, and you're done! You can even track return-authorization numbers.
• Comprehensive Time Tracking: Easily track time using the time-card features, and never enter information twice! Employees simply enter hours on daily or weekly forms and the time information then flows automatically into both invoices and paychecks.
• Flexible Billing Rates: choose from multiple rates--employee, activity, and flat fee--or choose to override the rate.
• Flexible Billing Status Options: choose from multiple billing status options the moment you enter a time ticket--billable, non-billable, hold, or no charge.
• Instant Expense Tracking: Track all job or project costs and streamline your billing procedures by keeping track of expenses like travel, copies, meals, and more! Your expenses can then be linked automatically to your customers' invoices.

*Internet access required; see www.peachtree.com/banks for a current list of supported banks, which is subject to change
**Subject to approval and to Sage Software terms of service; additional fees, Internet access, and checking account required

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Customer Reviews

Software ok, support is horrible
This program is very inflexible and rigid. On board Help files are very limited and I've never dealt with another company who seems to care less about supporting their product as you can tell just by trying to find out where to write or call. Unless you're paying the bucks for a support plan, you're toast. However, given the price of the software, which is expensive, you'd think some consideration would be given to users. If I ran my company the same way Peachtree support is managed, I'd be bankrupt.

I don't even think a "FOR DUMMIES" book could help me with this
I've been around my share of software in my time, both on Mac and PCs. But I have never, ever experienced such a user-UNFRIENDLY bit of software as Peachtree Complete Accounting. Navigation is not at all straightforward, actually there is nothing about Peachtree that is remotely straighforward! Even attempting to register the product was a nightmare.

I was setting this up for the company I work for and it began to look like it was going to take a year just to enter all of the banking and vendor information. And unfortunately, Peachtree considers bills such as utilities, as a vendor, so you are forced to enter meaningless infomation such as Net Terms and SHIPPING just to be able to key in your electric bill.

I could go on and on about how horrible this software is, but...

While struggling with this, I decided to order Quickbooks Pro and use them both so I could compare. Hands down, Quickbooks was just so much better in every respect.

Now, I'm sure there are some die hards out there who just can't say enough about how good this product is, but trust me, if you aren't a CPA and you don't have the time to mess around with a poorly designed software package, just skip Peachtree, it's not worth the aggravation.

Excellent easy to use software
I couldn't disagree more with the reviews bashing this software. I've worked with numerous accounting software packages and this is my favorite. My opinion is Quickbooks is a MUCH more difficult to use, and not at all intuitive. Do not be persuaded by these horrible reviews. Peachtree is a stable, complete and well respected software package.

With any software there is a learning curve. Quickbooks, because of it's wide following, tries to be everything to everybody. It is overly complex, and not easy to learn. Peachtree focuses on small business, virtually exclusively. It doesn't make accounting overly complex like Quickbooks. The reality is, you must have SOME accounting knowledge to use either product effectively. While Quickbooks might "seem" easier to the untrained, the reality is, if you're untrained, the end product will be garbage. Just because it's easy, doesn't mean it's right.

If you learn this product, not only will you be able to handle your accounting, it will be right. Just because the masses are heading to Quickbooks, doesn't make it better..... Think for yourself. This IS excellent software.

Good luck....