I'm sure this has been asked before, but I have searched on this forum and I haven't found an answer. We are a relatively small retailer looking at changing our software over to RMS, mainly due to a physical store location move in a few months and we need software that is more user friendly than what we use today. Currently, we are running the old Realworld Expertise software as our POS and financials. In our new store, we will have 4 POS stations with approx 6~7K SKUs, 200~300 invoices per day (hopefully). The local Microsoft partner I have talked to does not provide any info on the financials side. Are there any general guidelines to go buy when trying to decide between integrated financial software (such as SBF, Dynamics-GP, etc.). Any info you guys may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
Question about Financial Software Intergration
Dec 26, 2006
7 Replies
Jason,
There are many options for financial integration with RMS Store Operations. Some of them are -
- Microsoft Dynamics Small Business Financial (SBF)
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- Quickbooks etc. I assume you are only using RMS Store Operations and not RMS HQ (for multiple stores) Quickbooks and Microsoft SBF are easy and simple to use as a backend accounting program. RMS has GL level integration with Microsoft SBF and GP. With QB, RMS also send closed POs as bills to pay in addition to GL integration.
Beat regards,
Mihir Shah Diviasoft, Inc.
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We have been using Quickbooks for years. You would think that Microsoft would have a fully, seamlessly integrated solution by now. Perhaps with RMS
3.0 and the next version of SBF or GP? What do you guys recommend for a growing business that is about to outgrow Quickbooks? What does SBF do better than Quickbooks?
Operations.
SBF and GP are both GAAP compliant double-entry financial accounting software. They are better and more sophisticated business applications as compared to Quickbooks and other entry level software. SBF & GP both work on an SQL Server database backend and thus you get all the benefits of SQL Server database. (integrity, scalability and security). For a company outgrowing QB, I would recommend to look at SBF first.
Mihir Shah Diviasoft, Inc.
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What about ACCPAC? (sage)
Any hope there?
Thanks.
Mihir Shah wrote:
Hi Jason,
I am a little late coming to this thread, but in following what you describe, Luna Prix Fixe would be a great option for your company.
Essentially what you get is Microsoft Dynamics GP, an HP Proliant Server with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005, 1 year of Microsoft support, and your starting data loaded into the system by our consultants. This would very nicely cover off your requirements for a standalone server, database, and most importantly a real accounting system that integrates with RMS.
Check out the website at
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-Mike
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