Karen,
One of my clients has been using R:Base from DOS through Enterprise 10 (nearly 20 years). Their accountant felt that the AR portion of the R:Base application should be handled through Quickbooks (Enterprise Ver 14). They have been using QB as a check writer for years. I made a number of arguments against it, as they produce 1000-1300 invoices per day and the well-honed, specialized R:Base programs developed to create, track and process the ultimate payment of 1000-1300 invoices a day was in place and working. The only thing that was missing was integration of AR numbers for general ledger purposes in Quickbooks, which I pointed out could be produced easily on demand when the necessary reports were required. The accountant prevailed and the debacle began. I wrote the necessary programs to provide overnight data which had to be fed to QB via Transaction Pro because the QB process of importing the data was too slow. On the AR side, all of the specialized functionality of the custom R:Base programs was lost so the AR staff had to learn (the hard way) that QB had pretty screens and some neat features but it took them twice as long to post invoices, not to mention the dozens of other glitches the import process encountered, the difficulty of handling incoming EDI payments, and all of the other oddities that R:Base let's you code around. That's the short version, but bottom line, I am now busily migrating the AR system back to R:Base. Just my two cents. Cost them six figures to come to the same conclusion, though. Frank Massimo Tri-State Logistics, Inc. ________________________________ From: karentellef via RBASE-L <rbase-l@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 1:17 PM To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks It's been decades since I've had to deal with Quickbooks, and it wasn't exactly a joy back then... Someone just asked me about sending stuff from RBase into Quickbooks (they do not own QB yet, so it would be a new version of the software). Has anyone here used a new version of QB and let me know if it's easier nowadays to send data to QB? For example, what kind of formats does it accept as an import? Any gotchas? We'd probably be sending over lists of "members" (name, address, etc), and different kinds of revenues received (member fees, special fees, event fees) Thanks for any insight! Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
