Hi Wamugians
One thing to be aware of is that AccountEdge requires the data file to
be on a hard drive that does not belong to any of the users' Macs (this
is different to Premier where it can reside on a user's machine).
Therefore 3 users require 4 Macs. The data file is cross platform
compatible and only needs the Windows extension of .MYO to be included
in the file name to be openable by the Win programme. There is no
upgrade that takes place. There is no known way of migrating the
customised invoices etc to the Mac or vice versa.
I have seen an email this evening which claims that MYOB will be
selling AccountEdge as a single user programme only in future but have
not been able to confirm this yet. They would of course honour Premier
to AccountEdge multiuser migrations.
Cheers, Alex
On 24/11/2006, at 3:14 PM, Holipac wrote:
Rod,
Just did this conversion recently.
All your data is retained. The file format is readable by Mac and PC,
so I just send off my data file to my accountant, and they load it up
under Windows.
When I switched to Account Edge, I just opened up the existing file
... there was some kind of automated upgrade that took place, but
after that the file is still readable on Mac and Windows.
Customised forms didn't make the conversion - so invoices that were
setup as form layouts had to be rebuilt. Perhaps an expert could have
migrated these.
The functionality is basically the same - book-keepers who haven't
used Account Edge before just sit down and use it.
Regards,
Glenn.
On 24/11/2006, at 2:19 PM, Rod wrote:
Hi All!
Big question here, as I have to opportunity to swap out all our PCs
at work to Macs :-)
We currently run Premier MYOB on the PC. Can I import the file into
AccountEdge on the Mac? Are there a lot of things we lose in the
process? Are Premier and AccountEdge quite close in features?
MYOB themselves don't seem to be a lot of help at the moment :-(
Seeya
Rod!
Alex Novakovic - Best Computer Accounting
MYOB Certified Consultant
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Phone: 9305 6310
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