While we focus much more on QuickBooks than Peachtree here in this blog, it is worth pointing out that the new version of Peachtree has just been released and is now available for purchase. We have only had a few days with it, but so far, the 2009 release is a significant improvement over prior versions of Peachtree.
Below are some of the new feautures Peachtree touts on their website. We look forward to using the product and giving a more thorough reviewe in the weeks to come.
New Features of Peachtree Complete Accounting 2009
Multi-Year Reporting*
Compare budgets and financial results across multiple years within your General Ledger reports and Financial Statements. As your business grows over the years, you will be able to use this functionality to get improved trending analysis, better research, and more accurate forecasts based on prior year activity.
Flexible Payroll Management
Access to a flexible payroll management tool for your business is available. Peachtree 2009 makes managing your payroll easier with set-up improvements and expanded offerings for benefits and deductions. These expanded feature improvements offer you a better way to account for items that you need to effectively manage your business.
Real-Time Error Alerts
Having data accuracy is critical to any small business. Within Peachtree, you will be alerted when using non standard AP and AR accounts upon saving the transaction or when using a non-cash account in the cash account field on receipts and payments.
Cash Flow Management
Easily analyze and forecast your cash flow with the use of the cash flow management tool. You will have the ability to know whether or not you will have enough cash to meet current and upcoming financial obligations by managing your cash flow from one location. Additionally, you will be able to export cash flow forecasts into Microsoft Excel.
Time and Expense Tracking
Peachtree 2009 allows you to locate your time and expense tickets through a quick list view, utilize a new invoice form specific for your industry, as well as customize the first day of your business week depending on how your company tracks time.
* See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details
2 comments:
Our letter to Sage:
Peachtree Complete 2009, "doesn't support Remote Desktop Connection” Which Sage Software & Our Company, sure know it can. It's sad to see that the software company that our company has pushed for years, start to pitfall. Your 2009 complete edition is programmed to disable the program from launching in a Remote Desktop Connection, but at the same time, if you launch the program from a users account at the server, then the user logs back into RDC from the remote terminal everything is peachy, with full functionality.
Our company sees this as Sage just trying to boost sales and sell someone a higher level of the program that offers them “more forms” which many users DO NOT intent to use, but does give those RDC privileges. We can’t justify the cost difference for the RDC “feature” & we have no choice this year, but to switch all of our clients from Sage Software to Intuit, as anyone can RDC into their software, without the program refusing the launch in a RDC session. I hate to do this to the company we have supported for years, but unless a patch comes out to release the program from being denied on an RDC connection before mid September comes, we’ll have no choice. We are a nationally respect consulting company & we can not recommend a product that is below par to our standards.
Thank You,
J. Mehtala
www.JMComptuersInc.com
I can't disagree with your assessment Joe. It doesn't make a lot of sense to disable a feature that many users have relied upon for years. We have some clients who practically run their business via Remote Desktop - so this is a significant issue.
As for advising clients away from Peachtree - I wouldn't go that far. Our philosophy has always been "the right tool for the right job." There are some clients who need the features of Peachtree that QuickBooks lacks - such as FIFO and LIFO inventory costing.
For those who need or simply prefer Peachtree, 2009 has a nice set of improvements. I appreciate you pointing out the RDC issue Joe and hope Sage follows your advice and patches it.
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