Acclivity – AccountEdge 2011 for Windows

www.accountedge.com

 

Best Fit:

With hundreds of business templates, AccountEdge is suitable for a variety of small businesses.

Strengths:

–          Strong Apple Mac support

–          Mac network version available

–          Includes 100 industry-specific charts of accounts

–          Mobile version for iOS devices

–          U.S. & Canadian versions available

–          Supports multiple currencies

Potential Limitations:

–          Doesn’t offer true integration with common shipping carriers like UPS and FedEx

–          All data import/exports must be from/to a tab-delimited or comma-separated text file

 

Executive Summary & Pricing

While many readers may not be familiar with Acclivity or AccountEdge, this recently updated product has undergone a major transformation and was re-introduced in February 2010. And the latest release (2011) contains numerous new features. Formerly known as MYOB, AccountEdge has a fresh interface, easy navigational capability and a lot of features not commonly found in small business accounting products. With hundreds of business templates, AccountEdge is suitable for a variety of small businesses. Acclivity provides a good multi-user small business application for Mac, with support for single and multi users on Windows, as well. The product offers a larger number of features not commonly found in other small business accounting products, but does not currently offer industry-specific versions. It has a good combination of features and a starting price of $299 for a single-user license (additional licenses are $149 each).

 

5 – Basic System Functions

5- Core Accounting Capabilities

4 – Day-to-Day Operations

4.5 – Management Features

4.25 – Integration & Import/Export

4.5 – Help/Support