>Hi,
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>My company is looking to purchase a generic suite of accounting software and its source code to enhance and resale in a vertical market. Does anyone have any experience with either of the to 2 products in the message title or any other similar suite of applicatons?
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>We need Inventory, Sales Orders, AR, AP, GL, Payroll. Thanks in advance for any information I can get.

I have experience customizing SBT and Visaul Account. I don't have any experience with IAS Visual Advance!, but here's my 2 cents.

SBT 5.0 is basically the same code in the DOS FoxPro version. Once I learned their coding style it is okay. It had a steep learning curve. One plus is you get 100% of the source code.

VAM is written in VFP. Only by the will of God will I ever work on it again. The company I worked for did not own the source code for the System Manager and 10-15% of the customizations we needed to do were functions of the system manager. We got two stories, System Manager source was not available or it was too expense. Simple things like adding a 3rd address line to a check could not be done because the check printing routine was a system manager function. VAM security sucks. A user to go in and print out a payroll report to see everyone's pay rate. Forms like SO and Invoicing which are functionally similar, behave completely different. It is obvious that two different developers wrote the forms that are similar in functionality. VAM is dual currency only. For some reason, payment terms and bank is tied together. A separate entry in the bank table needs to be made for each payment term. Net30, Net45, NET90, CASH, COD.....

I guess you get the point that I am not a fan of VAM.