Express Accounts Plus 4+

Buggy and not very flexible

The dicription of the software talks about its ease of use and that its highly customizable, I have to disagree on both accounts. Its very tightly controlled which may might be great for professional accounts but if you need to configure your invoices in a certain way and provide more information on an invoice its like cutting a wedding cake with a machete and the output dosen't look that great. Putting your business type in either "Product" or "Service" pretty much yeilds the same business set up. Changing/adding to the chart of accounts caused the software to constantly crash. I'm a professional service provider and the software treated my service items as if they are inventory parts for assembly. There is also no way that I can tell to bill against an invoice on a percentage complete basis. I asked my CPA to look at it and he just flatly said he didnt think it was for me after looking it over. On the Mac it looks like a program that was ported over from Windows and doesn't take advantage of the Mac's great graphical interface. For me this was a one time $129 mistake to avoide monthly charges for online accounting services from other providers. It might work for others, but not for me.

Developer Response ,

Hello there, thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear you found our software hard to use. We offer free and interactive video tutorials that will help you get started and go over some of Express Accounts features. You can find those here: https://www.nchsoftware.com/accounting/tutorial.html in our efforts to enhance our products we thank you for your feedback. Our Support Team is always available to help you with any further questions or concerns you may have, please reach them here: https://www.nch.com.au/support/supportcontact.html?software=ExpressAccounts

-NCH Software Team

Extra Steps

I find this software very frustrating. I hjave been using it for about 3 years. In the last year it constatly freezes. It wont print purchase orders or invoices without freezing. At this time the only way to get it to work is to email myself what I want and then print it. Very time consuming

Developer Response ,

We have forwarded your feedback to our Development Team and they are taking a closer look. If you haven't already, it would be really helpful if you could reach out to our Support team here: https://www.nch.com.au/support/index.html

WAY MORE INTUITIVE THAN QUICKBOOKS PRE FOR MAC

I’ve been uisng Quickbooks Pro for many years without much issue. The lastest version of Quickbooks Pro requires: a subscription, being online, and only stores data on Quickbooks cloud. Intuit had 5 years to improve product and used that time to make Quickbooks Pro worse and much more expensive.
I just downloaded this APP a couple of hours ago. Without veiwing ttorials or using the help feature, I have been able to: enter all my payments for the month, reconcile the checkbook, back up my data to my business file folder on my Mac, and create a couple of quotes (which easily convert to invoices). This is a very intuitive APP and well worth the price.