Simply Accounting: Seemingly Anyone Can Do It
By milletappe on
Late last year I was offered the opportunity to take over a friend's very simple bookeeping requirements.Although I had never done any bookeeping, I had this idea that it was something anyone could easily pick up, and I knew I'd be using Simply Accounting, which I'd always heard great things about. I said sure.
What a wild ride! Let's not digress too much and just say that bookeeping is not something anyone can easily pick up, as far as I could tell. But back to Simply.
I actually have almost exclusively positive things to say about the product, since I was able to muddle my way through this whole year without ever calling customer service or breaking down and taking a class. Heck, I was barely in the Help, and never online looking for answers. You can figure out what to do just by reading menus and their descriptions and so forth.WITHOUT ANY PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN BOOKKEEPING - think of it!Sure, this business' setup and ins and outs are, as I mentioned, the very most basic. But still.
The only complaint I have is the unrelenting flow of emails for courses, addons, and upgrades, for which I never opted in. I'm not suggesting there is insufficient means to end that barrage of emails, I don't know as I haven't even opened them to see what they say at the end. It is just the only thing about my Simply experience which I can't recommend. Everything else was quite astounding to this a-little-less-newbie.
Would you mind telling me some of the things that this program can do to justify the expense of the program? Thanks.
Sounds like a great software for bookkeeping, thanks for the information.
I love easy things-accounting is not my forte & it sounds like I would be able to use this program!
I like that the menus are so descriptive that you can find your way around easily. Too bad about the endless emails though. I'd open one and click on the unsubscribe just to stop them from filling up my inbox though.
My husband uses this program for his business. His accountant swears by it. As for the emails I believe she simply clicked an 'unsubscribe me link' located at the bottom of the email. She's not received any since. She's used this program for both small companies (her husbands business) and larger ones like my husband's and his partner's. So far it's been more than sufficient.
Thanks for telling us about this user friendly "Simply Accounting "
You probably provided your email address when you registered the software. I hate when companies do that! Other than that, it does sound like an easy program to use with ot without accounting experience!