What Accounting Software to use for your Business? And Alternatives

What Accounting Software to use for your Business? And Alternatives

There are many alternatives when it comes to doing your accounting for your business here in Alberta. Sage is the most common software that we generally install, and provide IT support where second to that is QuickBooks mostly used for personal use or companies doing payroll or tax reports that are not building inventory and complex accounting structure.

AccountEdge is another type of accounting software that is focused to be a direct alternative to Sage, and it develops this software mainly for North American market in US and Canada. We have had experience installing, migrating and working with this software that is used by some of our clients as their Managed IT provider. The similarities of AccountEdge and MYOB accounting software are identical because at some point it was same company. MYOB moved to only online based software, where AccountEdge retained the right for end-users to install the software on their computers and keep their data private in their control rather than on cloud. Therefore, migration is very straight forward with few small hick ups that can be quickly resolved even if you have a large company inventory.

Sage is more broadly used because it stretches beyond the North American clientele. It gives you the option to run on your computer or on the cloud. Sage originates in UK, and it has developed this software for African continent market as well. We have been actively involved in IT support for this accounting software as well in Africa such South Africa, Madagascar, etc.

If you need IT support to implement, install or upgrade your accounting software for your company give us a call. We can also provide Virtual Servers to run your accounting software with automated backups and access security features.