Anyone know of Pastel Partner Accounting?
John Parnell
Is anyone out there familiar with Pastel accounting software? It's a South
African company. I would appreciate hearing some comments on it. Thanks in
advance.
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John F. Parnell
Vice President
Parnell Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Post Office Box 5130
Larkspur, CA 94977 USA
ph. 800-457-4276
or 415-256-1800
fax 415-256-8099
Paul MacFarlane
or
Peachtree.
They do handle exchange rates, etc.
I think the US distributor has been banned from this list.<g> They
replied
to every message saying "Pastel will do it" -- but, some do the same for
QB.<g>
http://www.pastel.com/
US Distributor: www.1usi.com
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Paul MacFarlane
American Riviera Software
mail: paul*Spamless*@business-plaza.com
http://www.business-plaza.com
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Pastel provides a developer's toolkit that gives developers access to
the underlying engine via an API, so it might be a better choice than QB
if planning to integrate with another application.
Paul MacFarlane wrote in message
<36c22b31...@news.mia.bellsouth.net>...
>I've played with it a bit. Didn't see any immediate advantages over QB
>or Peachtree. They do handle exchange rates, etc.
>
>I think the US distributor has been banned from this list.<g> They
>replied to every message saying "Pastel will do it" -- but, some do the
>same for QB.<g>
>
>http://www.pastel.com/
>US Distributor: www.1usi.com
>
>Paul MacFarlane
Eric Salmassy
<paul*SPAMLESS*@business-plaza.com> wrote:
>I think the US distributor has been banned from this list.<g> They
>replied to every message saying "Pastel will do it" -- but, some do
>the same for QB.<g>
>
Somehow I was the one that got all of the Pastel Partner posts for
approval, I guess my schedule for approving posts coincided with this
schedule for spa... I mean posting.
Actually what he was doing was responding to posts in an essentially
off-topic way. Someone would ask how to do something in Peachtree,
and he would reply, snipping all of the original post, with an ad for
his website.
He did that with five messages one day. I emailed him saying four of
the five were being deleted, one would be posted, and if he continued
to do that he would be killfiled. Haven't heard from him since. He
must not be reading this group anymore or I'm sure he would have
replied to this thread..
>http://www.pastel.com/
>US Distributor: www.1usi.com
Eric Salmassy / Accounting Solutions Northwest
salm...@aa.net http://members.aa.net/~salmassy/
Co-Moderator biz.comp.accounting
Kevin Colton
I have just bought the "Bookkeeper" version of their software for
one reason only - it supports multi-currency and my company has
income and expenses in both US and Canadian dollars. Handling
this was turning out to be a major headache when I tried to do it
in QuickBooks, but Pastel does exactly what I want.
Pastel is clearly designed for a much bigger company than my
small consulting company (ie. multi-user capabilities) but I don't
really have an accounting background and couldn't tell you how
useful most of the stuff would be. In general I find I can configure
far more things than in QB, but of course the learning curve is
steeper. The forms designer seems to have some problems.
Pastel Bookkeeper cost me $400 vs $120 for QB. More advanced
versions are more expensive. Currently Pastel doesn't have
Payroll although supposedly a US/CDN Payroll module will be
available later this year for an additional $200, with free yearly
upgrades.
Later,
Kevin