Hi Ed,

Thanks for the Accountmate Info.

Ken

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>I don't know if it will run standalone; we've converted ourselves internally at Weatherhill from SBT to Accountmate with the help of Purtill & Co.. We have ADP handle our payroll, so I don't have first-hand experience with the payroll module; the demo is impressive. More importantly, the modules that we do have work well, the code is well-written, and our biggest interest, import of transactions from other data sources (we have in-house developed order processing, distribution, warehousing and logisitics support, as well as using Pitney Bowes' Ascent shipping systems (I do a lot of consulting for PB related to the product, and Weatherhill serves as a test site for PB.) The import facilities made importing invoice/credit memo/debit memo/vendor invoices a piece of cake; we didn't have to touch the source to get our basic transactions in from our OE/distribution applications, and where we have needed to access
>the source, it's been clean and well written.) You can buy the source without becoming a dealer; i don't know what dealer/vendor requirements are, but I've been impressed with the Accountmate vendors that we talked to as far as their knowledge of the product.
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>It cost us less to replace SBT with Accountmate, including porting our data and developing the basic interface between our OE/distribution apps, for GL/AP/AR/SO/System Manager for 10 seats, than SBT wanted to 'upgrade' us to a new, Y2K compliant version. And since SBT's import facilities are non-existant, we would have had to buy source and use it as a guide to develop our import facilities all over again. I'm pleased to say I won't be looking at any SBT code ever again...
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