(previously on another thread)

Its day 2 on my implementation of MS SBA 2006, and its been an interesting time I must say. While the software has many of the features of QB and PT, it also falls short in some ways. Hopefully MS will start on improving the software in a meaningful way, but they will need to get some good listeners.

Here is my list so far:

Won't import from MS Money - requires you to export to QB then import to MSSBA... gimme a break eh? I imported from my bank okay, but I had to verify each and every transaction, instead of just doing it in bulk, and allowing me to go back and add details later... Do they think people only install the software on January 1st? How about an accept-all checkbox MS?

Limited fields on inventory items - NO SHIPPING WEIGHT! No pics allowed (the future is now guys), weak import program, lame error feedback. Mostly just annoying fiddledybits that should have been fixed prior to release.
On the plus side, it imports from Excel nicely, but you have to build the Excel file with redundant fields because they dont allow multiple matches to the description field on import... my auto-update program I'm writing will take that into consideration.

Invoices - they ship with a bunch of colors, but only one format... cmon MS, it is not even 1-days work for one programmer to premake several common formats. Its also difficult to see what the invoices would look like in the word editor...again no shipping weights here.

The biggest problem I have seen by far, is that the interface seems to do more, but its not documented or clear what to click, to make it happen! It seems MS should get some better Alpha/Beta testers that actually use the software.

Tonight I try to import customer lists and try some test invoices etc.
Still optimistic ...

John ka0osk midwesttent.com