Quickbooks for Charities

[gaffarn]

Hi everyone,<BR><BR>I am trying to source a Quickbooks package for my workplace and would like to ask about which one you all are using, which one would you all recommend for a small charity? <BR><BR>I was leaning towards Sage myself, however our Auditors have recommended Quickbooks as it's easier to use than Sage, having used Sage before I know next to nothing about Quickbooks and would appreciate any help you all can give me. <BR><BR>I have been on they website and printed off the comparisons of all they products and they have something called &quot;Nonprofit-Specific Financial Software, Quickbooks: Online Edition, Quickbooks: Pro 2005 & Quickbooks: Basic 2005&quot; Our company requirements are to carry on the Payroll function, Invoicing & Reports. <BR><BR>I would like to call Quickbooks up but they are in America and wouldn't like to run up the company's phone bill, lol.<BR><BR>Thank you for your help.<BR><BR>Nafisa <BR>

[Flossie]

As someone who works in practise and has used both packages i would disagree with you auditor. My advise would be to stick with what you know! Sage is so much easier. Stick with sage, i would.

If in doubt ring them as they are based in GB and have good customer service. Good Luck :D

[ScoobyDoo]

Funnily enough I was speaking with a charity accountant today about this as I work for a Charity and he said that Quick Books was better too as it is easier to keep track of restricted and unrestricted funds.

Hope this helps, but as I see the original thread is dated Nov 04 not too sure about that!!!!

Scooby

[blobbyh]

I've used both Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks Pro and I prefer the latter even though it does seem to have a bad rep on here. When I first started using QB, I just found it much more intuitive to get to grips with than Sage without having to dig out the user manual every five minutes.

Robert