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jayemee
Experienced User
4 months ago

Moving to AccountRight

I have started doing work for a company that uses MYOB Business Pro only online.  The product has limited functionality compared to the PC addition of AccountRight, when it comes to more complicated Bookkeeping transactions.  

They have been using this product for years with difficulty and I can see how much better it could operate with the correct software.  AccountRight would allow me to use the more diverse accounting type of functions, while they can still use the AccountRight online version which operates the same as Business Pro anyway.

 

Has anyone found that they needed to move a client to AccountRight instead of staying with an online version with reduced function.  Is it something that I just need to get used to, or how hard it is to move it all to AccountRight.  MYOB will only migrate from AccountRight to Business and not the other way around - I will have to do it all myself which makes me very nervous. 

Any comments or advice, or is anyone an expert at doing this particular task?

 

thanks

3 Replies

  • Mike_MYOB's avatar
    Mike_MYOB
    Community Manager
    4 months ago

    Hi Antoon - it wasnt deleted, it had been marked as Spam by the system and I had not noticed.
    It is published now. Thanks, Mike

  • Antoon's avatar
    Antoon
    Experienced User
    4 months ago

    You would need to export your files from Business Pro. You can open and view this in Excel.

    Once you have AccountRight you open a trial business and do an export from it to see the correct headers and layout. Then you can copy and paste your file information into the AccountRight export in Excel.

    Once this is done, you can save that file and then you should be able to import it back into AccountRight. I had to do this with an old DOS based program and managed to import all the relevant files. You just need to practice in the trial business.

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