Ive tried using the free trial of sage, but since I don;t understand a single peice of the information or gumpf it describes, I found it useless! Are there guides out there for idiots like me?
There's a post on the accountingweb.co.uk forums which sums up my own feelings about Sage:Anyone use this at all? Looking for some advice on the appropriate package to get for a small business wanting to do wages and tax records.
Thanks.
SAGE is the only software we ACTIVELY discourage clients from using, unless they have a top notch bookeeper who really likes it, or the advantages in multi-user enviroment and audit trail for adjustments are really necessary.
I dont let small clients doing their own books anywhere near it - huge level of support required vs next to nothing on pretty much anything else.
you really do need a solid knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping if you're not going to end up totally at sea.
Perhaps not really a shocker I suppose, but the fact remains that some other small business accounting packages are easy to just dive in and use *without* any such knowledge.Shocker as accounting package requires knowledge of double-entry!