Hello
One of the aspects of MYOB that I find slows me down considerably is the need to know numbers instead of being able to search by name. I was able to do this on another accounting packag...
we are currently allocating more than 100 jobs in MYOB. but sometimes it is really hard to find the job number when input data in PURCHASE or SALES function. 2 reasons
- there is a limitation on JOB's name, so some of jobs have similar names, but hard to identify each other if there is a limited letters on Job's name
- there is no search function for JOB when input PURCHASE or SALES. for example, we have 100+ jobs, and when we received one bill, it related to 50 jobs, so i need to record 50 lines in the PURCHASE section, but it takes a lot of time to go through the list when input JOB NUMBER.
we are using XERO as well. for XERO
1. there is no limited letters when input JOB NAME, so, we can put the whole name in the JOB NAME section
2. there is a search function when input JOB NUMBER in SALES and PURCHASE. Using same example, after input one line for particular job in the invoice, if i know this line is related some job named "red", in the JOB section, i can type in RED, then all the jobs have RED in thier names will be shown up, maybe narrow down to 3 or 4 options, then i only need to select one from these 3 or 4 options, it saved a lot of times.
i am using MYOB for more than 7 years, only using XERO for few months...
MYOB job number add and search function is ridiculously poor. It doesn't error out when a wrong key is it, it just defaults to whatever it wants. It doesn't replace the job number if you change it to a new one, you have to key it in AGAIN. You can't search for job details etc. to choose the right job to allocate to.
Another issue MYOB has long failed at and still hasn't fixed.
I emailed a long list of similar issues about 3 years ago and they clearly don't care as its not been fixed.