Friday, November 16, 2007

Evaluating Mac Billing Applications

I've been using MYOB AccountEdge since June of 2001 when I started working for myself.  I believe it was the first non-Apple MacOSX native applications I used and one of the first available.  It is my belief that Apple gave MYOB a pile of money to port the application to MacOSX when Intuit didn't jump to update QuickBooks (which is still a pile of garbage on the Mac, from what I understand).

While MYOB has been adequate to my needs that's about the best you can say about it.  The interface is very cumbersome, it is finicky to customize it has a whole lot of features that I don't need, but worst of all it is a resource hog.  For reasons I don't understand launching AccountEdge causes the CPU time of LaunchCFMA to jump up to 45% and WindowServer to 50%.  This persists even with MYOB in the background.

The final strike against MYOB came with the upgrade to Leopard.  There is at least one hanging bug involving printing that is a deal breaker for me.

At this point I am trying to decide between Billings, iRatchet and TimeNet.  I have already decided against iBiz because of complaints about data integrity.

More here as the evaluation progresses.

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