Review by Bass Cadet

Over a decade ago, I tried starting a business. It was a mess and, ultimately, a failure. Among the miscues, I thought I would set up QuickBooks and act like a real business owner. I never got very far with QuickBooks. It had too steep of a learning curve and I did not have the time to experiment with it. Years later, I took a brief introductory seminar about it and reasonably concluded that it was more difficult than useful for me.

Sage 50 Pro Accounting is, to me, much more intuitive. It has a handy setup guide that helps set up common business models. My current business is property management so I used the setup guide for that model. It added many reports and forms and provided step-by-step assistance to complete the essential information. I would prefer to remove some of the many entries that are not applicable but can see why they would want to include everything even remotely connected.

Maintaining records in a real accounting software system is much more involved than, for example, using a spreadsheet or database system, but I never feel completely lost with Sage 50. This is in contrast to QuickBooks where I felt like I had to start over from the beginning each time I ran the program.