[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-17 Thread Phil Sim
If you have staff the payroll module in Saasu is brilliant - let me dump ADP Payline so has paid for itself many times over. Although I must admit, despite being a long-time Saasu advocate, Xero looks pretty damn nice and I particularly like their dashboard. No payroll, no good for me though.And I

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-16 Thread alan.jones
My blog posts about how much I hate MYOB are amongst my most popular (that says something about how craptastic my blog is, huh?) My book keeper and I switched my business to Saasu initially but then because she thinks like a book keeper and not a businessperson, she wanted to switch to Xero,

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-16 Thread Karen
On Jan 16, 2:25 pm, Chris Bayley ch...@domainpartners.com.au wrote: Hi - Has anyone been using Xero for their accounting (www.xero.com)? MYOB is killing me, I find it a pretty hard piece of software to understand and learn. Xero is a listed NZ-based start up and is a pretty awesome SAAS

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Collins
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Chris Bayley ch...@domainpartners.com.au wrote: Hi - Has anyone been using Xero for their accounting (www.xero.com)? MYOB is killing me, I find it a pretty hard piece of software to understand and learn. Xero is a listed NZ-based start up and is a pretty

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Specht
-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Collins Sent: Friday, 16 January 2009 2:40 PM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Chris Bayley

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-15 Thread Warren Seen
I'm using MYOB currently but I'm not particularly enamored of it and never really have been. I have to ask though: if you're using Saasu, what happens in terms of getting your data out of the system if you want to close your account, can you export to a format MYOB et al will understand? What

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Collins
Warren 10 years of company history = reliability. Two CeBIT awards. Standard file formats for export (http://www.saasu.com/help/answers/archiving-data/). Public uptime history - 99.9 since 2003. As for letting your account at it, you can - you can assign very granular controls to additional

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-15 Thread Warren Seen
Cool, thanks for the response! I certainly wasn't setting out to knock them, just genuinely curious as to how they handled each of those points, which I'd imagine are fairly common questions from prospective clients. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Stephen Collins t...@acidlabs.org wrote:

[SiliconBeach] Re: Xero vs MYOB - Accounting Packages

2009-01-15 Thread Elias Bizannes
Marc's the founder - he brought in an ex-Macq bank dude to run it and take it to the next level. Oh yeah - he also subscribes to this mailing list. ;) As do some prominent venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and others in the industry. I am sure they love seeing the open dialogue but just a