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| Before Intuit/QuickBooks ever tried to wrongly tell you that you don't need an accountant, there were businesses running Advanced Accounting (but unlike your accountant, you have different needs, such as strong inventory control). We don't obsolete our products nor force you to constantly buy updates (many of our users think nothing of not updating for years!). We don't put limitations on file record sizes nor adopt non-standard Windows design practices nor implement bizarre proprietary or illogical database methodologies (guilty: QuickBooks and Peachtree). Unlike Peachtree, we don't force you to download a 600 meg demo to even try our product; nor do we install our applications as if we are "king of the hill" as Peachtree does. You won't fall asleep while waiting for our software to load up across a network or on your standalone PC. Advanced Accounting is designed with growth and multiple users in mind. It doesn't just let you do anything and destroy the integrity of your valuable data (QuickBooks often leads to a quick mess). And you will receive the kind of support, when you need it, that QuickBooks and Peachtree users can only dream about. There are certain intangibles that are simply beyond compare! |
- Addsum Advanced Accounting Software Comparisons
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- These product comparisons are designed to help potential users understand what features Advanced Accounting may have as compared to another product. Like other software publisher prepared comparisons, they are not intended to be a fair or unbiased comparison but rather are a start at attempting to point out what set of features/capabilities Advanced Accounting may have as compared to another package. The burden as always is on the evaluator to determine how two or more products compare and in that process (after having determined the needs of the end user) determine which "mix" of features is most appropriate, keeping in mind that it is normally not any one feature or capability that should initiate or exclude a purchase of an accounting software package. One shoe definitely does not fit all.
- Software features continually change. And, while every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, purchase decisions should not be made solely based on the information that is contained here. If you notice an inconsistency or a needed correction or have a question, please e-mail us as info@addsuminc.com. Or even better, call us a 1-800-648-6258.
- These product comparisons are designed to help potential users understand what features Advanced Accounting may have as compared to another product. Like other software publisher prepared comparisons, they are not intended to be a fair or unbiased comparison but rather are a start at attempting to point out what set of features/capabilities Advanced Accounting may have as compared to another package. The burden as always is on the evaluator to determine how two or more products compare and in that process (after having determined the needs of the end user) determine which "mix" of features is most appropriate, keeping in mind that it is normally not any one feature or capability that should initiate or exclude a purchase of an accounting software package. One shoe definitely does not fit all.
- Addsum Advanced Accounting vs. QuickBooks/Peachtree/Small Business Accounting
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- Advanced Accounting, QuickBooks and Peacthree and SBA are really not products that were necessarily designed for the same type of end user, however, because QuickBooks and Peachtree and more recently SBA are packages that potential users are often most familiar with and because Advanced Accounting competes closely price-wise, a comparison is included here. This comparison is also made more difficult due to the fact that there are so many different versions of these products.
Addsum Advanced Accounting 6.1 vs. Quickbooks, Peachtree and Small Business Accounting Feature/issue Advanced Accounting 6.1 QuickBooks Pro 2005 QuickBooks Premier 2005 Peachtree Complete 2006 Peachtree Premium 2006 Small Business Accounting 2006 Single user price $299 $299 $499 $299 $499 $179 Cost per 2nd thru 5th user
(if single user initially purchased)$145 each requires upgrade to 5-user requires upgrade to 5-user requires upgrade to 5-user requires upgrade to 5-user ??? 5-user price $799 $749 $1499 $699 $999 $745 Can scale past 5 concurrent users Yes No Only by changing to the Enterprise version ($3500) No No Yes (max. of 8 user "sessions") Can scale past 10 concurrent users Yes
(requires Pervasive client-server; can scale to an unlimited number of users)No No No No No Has sales order capability and reserves units on hand Yes No Yes Yes Yes ??? Includes a fully integrated point of sale (POS) system Yes (included in purchase price) No (but is available for an additional $799, not real time) No (but is available for an additional $799, not real time) No No No Has bill of materials/assembly capability Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Contains a limit as to the total number of customers, items, employees, etc. that may be added No Yes (1 gig file max, 14500 inventory item max, 500000 transaction max) Yes No No Yes (2 gig max file size, 100000 inventory max, 2000000 transaction max) Multiple location inventory tracking Yes No No No No No? Consolidated financials Yes No No No Yes No Existing program options can be modified and/or new program options added Yes No No No No No Requires recent versions of Internet Explorer to be installed as a prerequisite to software installation No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Works with Terminal Services (or Citrix) Yes No, requires Enterprise No, requires Enterprise No No ??? - Advanced Accounting, QuickBooks and Peacthree and SBA are really not products that were necessarily designed for the same type of end user, however, because QuickBooks and Peachtree and more recently SBA are packages that potential users are often most familiar with and because Advanced Accounting competes closely price-wise, a comparison is included here. This comparison is also made more difficult due to the fact that there are so many different versions of these products.
- Adsum Advanced Accounting vs. DBA Classic
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- Advanced Accounting 6.1 and DBA (latest version 2002.4) share a common ancestral product, Advanced Accounting 3.0. DBA and Advanced Accounting were both written in (albeit different versions) of the TAS Professional programming language from Business Tools, Inc. While they are different products suited in many cases for different types of users who have different needs, because of the history they have shared and because they were written in similar languages and each use similar database engines, a comparison of the two products is sometimes inevitable.
- Since DBA was designed more with manufacturing features and capabilities in mind rather than the primarily wholesale/distribution/retail features of Advanced Accounting, DBA most certainly has a number of features (for example, MRP, scheduling and forecasting and many others) that Advanced Accounting does not. For this reason and as with most comparisons, it is difficult to provide a truly balanced, apples-to-apples comparison (in part because the products were not per se necessarily designed to be used by the same end user). This chart is intended to generally be an indication of some of the features that Advanced Accounting 6.1 has that DBA does not and/or to point out some of the areas of similarity that may be important.
Advanced Accounting 6.1 vs. DBA Feature Advanced Accounting 6.1 DBA (thru 2002.4) Product/item number field length 25 15 Tracks inventory movements Yes Yes Max number of checking accounts 99 9 Checking accounts can be made inactive Yes No Max number of terms possible 999 20 Terms can be restricted to appropriate modules Yes No Supports EOM terms Yes No Unlimited freeform notes can be attached to customers, vendors, employees, GL accounts Yes No Any report can be output to PDF, XLS, RTF, other formats Yes No Internal e-mail capable Yes No Years of GL data available for financial statements 7 3 Limit on retaining GL transaction detail and other kinds of history (for example, invoice history) None None GL postings can occur up to how far back into the past 5 years past 2 years past Transactionalized GL Yes No Tracks credit cards Yes No Integrated credit card authorization available Yes No Tracks alternative customer addresses Yes No Tracks alternative customer ship to's Yes No Point of sale module Yes No Tracks customer payment history and provides credit analysis Yes Yes but no credit analysis Sales order entry, purchase order entry, customer order entry all involve truly GUI/object-based programs Yes No Reserves units on sales orders (critical wholesale/distribution feature) Yes No Sales order message line max 75 chars 30 chars Freeform notes can be attached to sales order/purchase order line items Yes No Purchase order message line max 65 chars 30 chars Location entry at the line item level possible in SO's and PO's Yes No Average cost computed by location Yes No Job costing capabilities Job can be defined as anything with series of tasks/cost codes Limited to reporting on work orders Payroll tracks W-2 history Yes No Accounts payable voucher GL acct distribution max 200 10 Encrypts user logons/passwords for greater security Yes No User permissions for allowed actions within program options Yes No User can change their own password Yes No Order entry on the fly from customer module Yes No Uses Pervasive database engine Yes-V8 (also works with 2000i and prior) Yes-2000i (V8 works but requires additional purchase) Client-server or workgroup database engine configuration support Yes No Data is ODBC compliant and can be accessed via Crystal Reports or MS Access Yes Yes Frequently consumes 100% of CPU resources No Yes Numeric keypad fully available Yes Not always available - Advanced Accounting 6.1 and DBA (latest version 2002.4) share a common ancestral product, Advanced Accounting 3.0. DBA and Advanced Accounting were both written in (albeit different versions) of the TAS Professional programming language from Business Tools, Inc. While they are different products suited in many cases for different types of users who have different needs, because of the history they have shared and because they were written in similar languages and each use similar database engines, a comparison of the two products is sometimes inevitable.