[WelMac] Moneyworks

[Neil Bartlett]

Hi David,

Yes I have MW Gold already for my internet Business. I needed to have  
inventory control for MW to replace my PC based auction Programme.  
Unfortunately I have never got MW set up to do so. Now I have a  
different set of needs for MW to cover in addition to the Inventory.

The problem I find with MW in comparison to MYOB, a programme that I  
have used extensively, is that MW is so free-form that it is hard to  
get started because it is impossible to see the implication any setup  
actions might have down the track. The tutorial is so intent on  
showing that MW is simple that it ignores any advanced features and  
techniques. Even Inventory is only lightly touched upon in the  
tutorial, although to be fair I need to revisit versions 5's training  
to see what has been added to its training system, as apart from  
extra features in the App.

Regards
Neil

On 2/01/2008, at 8:57 AM, David Empson wrote:

> At 8:21 AM +0900 2/01/2008, Neil Bartlett wrote:
>> I everyone, Happy New Year.
>>
>> Just wondered if any of you have experience with setting up
>> Moneyworks to do property management tasks or using one data file to
>> manage multi companies or branches. I need to look at setting up a
>> holding company and subsidiaries.
>
> Hi Neil. Happy New Year to you too, and to everyone else.
>
> I've been using MoneyWorks for many years, for managing my
> self-employed finances. I orignally used CashWorks (now known as
> "MoneyWorks Cashbook") and recently upgraded to MoneyWorks Express,
> which adds debtor and creditor ledgers. I'm currently using it for
> managing my self-employed accounts and to keep track of finances for
> my flat, which I'm doing as two separate account files. (I may get
> around to adding my personal finances at some point, with a third
> file, but haven't seen any need to do so yet.)
>
> With Cashbook or Express, if you want to manage multiple independent
> companies or branches, you have to set up a separate account file for
> each company or branch. There is no easy way to separate them or to
> generate independent reports for each company or branch in a single
> account file, and no easy way to produce combined reports if you do
> separate them.
>
> I am aware that MoneyWorks Gold adds support for "departments" within
> a larger organisation, but I have no idea how capable this is and
> whether it would be sufficient to handle semi-independent property
> management.
>
> Do you already have MoneyWorks, and if so which variant?
>
> If necessary, you can download a 30-day trial version of MoneyWorks
> Gold to test whether it can do what you need.
>
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