Claudine:
I hear R:azzak muttering: "there are NO boring details in R:BASE!"
Given the potential for integrating R:BASE with a small-business
accounting system which holds up its end cheerfully, I'd say the details
might really make somebody's day.
I like Karen's follow-on to your message: do you know if the current
Sage/Peachtree is up to it?
Thanks
Bruce Chitiea
SafeSectors, Inc.
909.238.9012 Mobile
------ Original Message ------
Sent: 5/10/2017 1:21:14 PM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks
From: "Claudine Robbins" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc:
We use PeachTree for A/R, A/P and G/L. We export A/R and A/P data from
R:BASE and upload to PeachTree. It’s primitive but has worked reliably
for many years. Let me know if anyone wants the boring details.
Claudine
From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Bruce Chitiea
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 11:55 AM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re[2]: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks
Ok then, looking forward.
Is anyone aware of - or had any direct experience with - ANY accounting
system in QuickBooks' market segment (Peachtree, perhaps) which hosts
dead-bang, SQL-compliant import/export capabilities; with or without
resort to third-party "translators"?
Bruce Chitiea
SafeSectors, Inc.
909.238.9012 Mobile
------ Original Message ------
Sent: 5/9/2017 8:47:08 AM
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks
From: "Bill Downall" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Cc:
I've built a bridge between R:BASE and QB through a 3rd party product
called Transaction Pro Importer out of Bay State Consulting. It's been
working well for years, but Karen is right: when QB gets upgraded or
moved from desktop to cloud, the TPI product may have to change and the
R:BASE end reworked, too.
That company's experience with trying to move from QB Desktop to QB
Online was a disaster, as others have described. (Would have had to
archive/abandon historical details, and it still took over 24 hours to
convert in testing.) I've also seen a non-profit I have worked with
abandon efforts to improve their QB by moving it to QB Online.
Frank's story -- a company spending 6 figures to learn that moving to
XXX was not an improvement in the end -- is one many people have shared
and heard over and over again when R:BASE developers got together.
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:31 AM, karentellef via RBASE-L
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the two cents. Just confirms everything I've heard that QB
does not want to talk to other programs. The vertical market app
they're looking at apparently has a separate add-on program you can buy
to make the transfer, but who knows what version of QB it interfaces
with. Gonna share your post (but not your name) with the company.
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Massimo <[email protected]>
To: rbase-l <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, May 9, 2017 10:21 am
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks
Karen,
One of my clients has been using R:Base from DOS through Enterprise 10
(nearly 20 years). Their accountant felt that the AR portion of the
R:Base application should be handled through Quickbooks (Enterprise Ver
14). They have been using QB as a check writer for years. I made a
number of arguments against it, as they produce 1000-1300 invoices per
day and the well-honed, specialized R:Base programs developed to create,
track and process the ultimate payment of 1000-1300 invoices a day was
in place and working. The only thing that was missing was integration of
AR numbers for general ledger purposes in Quickbooks, which I pointed
out could be produced easily on demand when the necessary reports were
required. The accountant prevailed and the debacle began. I wrote the
necessary programs to provide overnight data which had to be fed to QB
via Transaction Pro because the QB process of importing the data was too
slow. On the AR side, all of the specialized functionality of the custom
R:Base programs was lost so the AR staff had to learn (the hard way)
that QB had pretty screens and some neat features but it took them twice
as long to post invoices, not to mention the dozens of other glitches
the import process encountered, the difficulty of handling incoming EDI
payments, and all of the other oddities that R:Base let's you code
around. That's the short version, but bottom line, I am now busily
migrating the AR system back to R:Base.
Just my two cents. Cost them six figures to come to the same conclusion,
though.
Frank Massimo
Tri-State Logistics, Inc.
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From: karentellef via RBASE-L <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 1:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks
It's been decades since I've had to deal with Quickbooks, and it wasn't
exactly a joy back then...
Someone just asked me about sending stuff from RBase into Quickbooks
(they do not own QB yet, so it would be a new version of the software).
Has anyone here used a new version of QB and let me know if it's easier
nowadays to send data to QB? For example, what kind of formats does it
accept as an import? Any gotchas? We'd probably be sending over lists
of "members" (name, address, etc), and different kinds of revenues
received (member fees, special fees, event fees)
Thanks for any insight!
Karen
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