Sage accounts - bunch of amateurs

[NotAllThere]

User admin console - null point errors all over the place. Seems to work, so probably a flaky gui. Not what I expect from a mature commercial product.

Customer support portal - change your password, and they send you a nice email telling you what you've changed it to. FFS

[MarillionFan]

User admin console - null point errors all over the place. Seems to work, so probably a flaky gui. Not what I expect from a mature commercial product.

Customer support portal - change your password, and they send you a nice email telling you what you've changed it to. FFS

Jesus. Can you not even use Sage now. I'm surprised you can find the exit from the Mods washroom.

[doodab]

About 2 years into my contracting career I bought sage, instant accounts it was. What an awful pos. Once you ****ed up the over complex setup proceess there was no way to start over. I ended up binning it.

[eek]

User admin console - null point errors all over the place. Seems to work, so probably a flaky gui. Not what I expect from a mature commercial product.

Customer support portal - change your password, and they send you a nice email telling you what you've changed it to. FFS

There are worse aspects to the product.... Much much worse however the password bit is due to their customer base and the fact HMRC adopt the exact same approach to passwords...

[Ticktock]

My wife, an ex-accountant, has no trouble using Sage Instant Accounts to do my books.
Then again, she used to use Sage (amongst other accounting packages) at the various companies where she used to work.

[vetran]

Quickbooks is not exactly the best coded either.

I think its more about the original designers of the application. These are Accountants turned coders not coders writing accounts packages.

I just about managed to do my accounts but I'm sure an accountant would have more flair.

[Paddy]

User admin console - null point errors all over the place. Seems to work, so probably a flaky gui. Not what I expect from a mature commercial product.

Customer support portal - change your password, and they send you a nice email telling you what you've changed it to. FFS

Maybe if they merged with these people you could tell them to get stuffed

http://accountingonion.com/

[amcdonald]

The only redeeming feature of Sage is that nearly all accounts have it, so if you're doing the basic bookeeping they can easily read the figures

Of course you could just use Excel...

[DodgyAccountant]

Quickbooks is not exactly the best coded either.
I just about managed to do my accounts but I'm sure an accountant would have more flair.

'accountant' and 'flair' in the same sentence. Must be a first.

[doodab]

'accountant' and 'flair' in the same sentence. Must be a first.

I think he meant flares.