Considering quitting my job....

I've used Sage. I sympathise fully.

As long as you have alternatives, I see no problem leaving a job because you don't like how they operate.
 
hayley86 said:
Carry on as normal let the bosses discover how good/bad the system is working its a job at the end of the day they are like gold dust.
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That could happen.

Or they could sack him for not working quickly enough, replace him a few times, get fed up of this 'problem department' and hire in a big shot to sort it out. He will tell them the software is not suitable for the role and they will pay tens of thousands for whatever industry standard package he recommends.
 
Is there actually any good alternatives to Sage 50 which don't cost £10K+ to get up and running and can handle a large amount of products etc? So many things Sage Line 50 fails at but have never seen a reasonably priced alternative with as many features :( Sage did try and sell me Sage 200 but that's far too expensive !
 
Do it, you need the fear. I did it and it's the best thing I ever did (until the raging alcoholism that followed 3 years of unemployment cost me my health). Other than that though, fan bloody tastic.
 
ScoTTyBEEE said:
Do it, you need the fear. I did it and it's the best thing I ever did (until the raging alcoholism that followed 3 years of unemployment cost me my health). Other than that though, fan bloody tastic.
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At my current rate of spending, which would be easy to reign in, I have 5+ years in the bank, not sure I could feel the need to hit the bottle - that's plenty of time to get another job.

As said above it won't be a knee jerk reaction, although I've been looking for other employment already, albeit half heartedly. I did get offered one job but it would have meant relocating to Milton Keynes, not really what I had in mind.

I can battle on with this for a bit, or leave if I really have to - no biggie either way.

With regard to alternatives to Sage 50 - just to clarify, the problem isn't Sage 50, it's what we're attempting to do with it. It's like buying a screw driver and trying to put in a nail - you keep jabbing away at it until you slip and stick it through your thumb - and you're still no further that when you started. Whatever faults Sage 50 has, it won't be me that finds them, not unless I end up in an accounting/admin based role - which I think is fairly unlikely in the foreseeable.
 
Does Sage still use an Access database with a renamed extension for it's datastore?

It's been a while (9 years) since I had to do anything with it, but it certainly used to be the case.
 
Ironic Namesake said:
Is there actually any good alternatives to Sage 50 which don't cost £10K+ to get up and running and can handle a large amount of products etc? So many things Sage Line 50 fails at but have never seen a reasonably priced alternative with as many features :( Sage did try and sell me Sage 200 but that's far too expensive !
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Depending on what areas of the system you wanted to use and how many users you have you could get Dynamics NAV for that. Problem is the cost with ERP systems is getting it installed in the first place and modified to do exactly what you want. I take it Sage Line 50 doesn't allow any customisation? They can't for example make you a quote list and an order list, both the same thing just with appropriate filters applied when you open them? That sort of thing takes no time in NAV.
 
I considered using it in my business. Some accountancy firms won't take you on unless you use Sage. We got that Mamut mac software instead - i don't recommend it.
 
burns said:
Depending on what areas of the system you wanted to use and how many users you have you could get Dynamics NAV for that. Problem is the cost with ERP systems is getting it installed in the first place and modified to do exactly what you want. I take it Sage Line 50 doesn't allow any customisation? They can't for example make you a quote list and an order list, both the same thing just with appropriate filters applied when you open them? That sort of thing takes no time in NAV.
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The initial cost has always been the issue, Sage is a fair bit less. But yes, can't really be customised and the performance isn't the fastest, especially when you have a larger amount of products, and invoices/orders with lots of product lines :(
 
I would not believe everything sage support tell you, i have had them tell me outright lies before.. you should have took the problem to sageworld last month, they had obviously only decided to take the smarter individuals as i got a solutions to a few of my issues that i had struggled to get an answer over the support lines.
 
Sage line 50 is designed for pretty basic "one size fits all" accounting hence the price and it sounds like the directors are just trying to cut costs by using a system which is not up to the job. Unfortunetely apart from trying to convince them otherwise I think you will have to put up with it or leave.
 
Tell me about it, I'm considering quitting my job because of the squeak the bin lid makes when people put cans of coke in it. OOOOOOOooooh there it goes again :mad:
 
Shoes, what version of Sage 50 are you running? I'm on V17 Pro 2011.

Can you do all the quotations 'offline' and then process the sales orders separately?
 
Bit OTT IMO..... I've been an accountant in private practice, Medium sized enterprise and two Multinationals.... and also audited dozens of companies.

One thing thats common in them all is that the financial systems are a nightmare, implemented wrongly, too costly to ammend, error prone etc..... regardless of whether its SAGE, SAP, Agresso, Oracle etc etc


You have to learn to work around what you have, and make the best with what you've got.... and exploit the awesomeness of excel!


Its not great, nor ideal, and certainly chokes the current company I work for. Life unfortunately.
 
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