OMS Office Master System vs. AccountEdge

Well OMS can be perfect for medium and large organization,project management, dealing with large volume of documents.The system would be less effective where its small business and simple needs, limited budget, and where there is resistance to adopt new technologies .

Incentivized

If you are handling a large client list, and are selling services, it is dead easy. If you are managing/selling a physical inventory, it seems like it has great options to do that quite well (disclaimer, I do not use those functions, but I have paid attention as that functionality was built into the software). If you want to link your bank account to a bookkeeping platform, this is not the software for you (at least so far).

Incentivized

• Ih helps in inventory management, thus providing detailed updates on how much stock in availabe and at any moment can retrieve the detailed reports.
• It helps to schedule daily meeting and appointments with clients
• Save and retrieve real time orders information.

Incentivized

• Complete Macintosh accounting software solution
• Robust inventory with price levels, quantity price breaks, and item assemblies
• Robust Job costing including progress billing, budgets, and profitability
• Mobile and web apps to add transactions from anywhere to sync back to your company file
• Integrated payroll
• Retainers and escrow accounts
• Three levels of transactions categorization-jobs, categories, and departments
• Multi-currency
• Network capable for multiple simultaneous users
• Ability to see profitability on an individual invoice
• Company file can be transferred back and forth between Mac and Windows with NO conversion needed.
• Can import text files of practically any kind of transaction

• OMS software been around for a long time and they have thoughtfully added features for wholesale businesses. However, the software is in need of an update that makes the software easier to use and more modern.
• The user flow could be improved and the layout could be more intuitive. It is inconvenient to change between modules. It takes time for team members to become familiar with the software.
• We appreciate the ability to import/export data, however we wish that this feature was easier to use for the team. Currently only a few members with technology experience are able to use the feature.

Incentivized

• Probably our biggest beef is the sales pitch a while back to incorporate their POS system Checkout that was supposed to integrate hand in glove with AccountEdge (it never really did.) Now the company has abandoned the POS program (even the website is now a 404 error page). Checkout is glitchy, and rather than improving it, they just dropped it and left users like us who bought into it unsupported. That doesn't reflect well on the company's customer service in our view. We've been AccountEdge users from back when it was MYOB, but our confidence in their future dependability has been strongly impacted by this move, and if something else came along, our hard-earned loyalty might not be as firm as it has been in the past.
• Some tasks in AccountEdge take a long time to complete (go get a coffee while the spinning beachball turns).
• Don't know the feasibility, but it would be nice to have access to older transactions, maybe even in some kind of read-only format.

Incentivized

Without a doubt, when you need to do accounting use the program that will get the job done in the least amount of time with the least amount of errors. Once you are using a program that works you stay with it year after year and you will find yourself even excited about the updates

Incentivized

The intuitive interface does all the tasks we need our accounting software to do. Some tasks are slower to process than I would like but overall very usable. Customizable forms let us choose to either go with the easy ready-made out-of-the-box options or retool them to better fit our specific needs.

Incentivized

One of the finer advantages of desktop software, it's always available. AccountEdge doesn't suffer from outages or sluggish internet like web based applications do. It's always there when you power on your device!

Incentivized

We highly recommend OMS because of their customer support. When evaluating their software, we had a sales associate and a programmer walk us through the software and answer questions. They allowed us to demo the software at our offices. During onboarding, we received live training form a knowledgeable team member. We were happy that phone calls were always answered quickly. In fact, they reached out to us multiple times to make sure that we were set up and happy.

Incentivized

On the few occasions we have needed tech support over the years, they were responsive and worked to get to the root of the issues. However, even though Checkout POS is a separate application, it was pitched to us as a natural extension of the functionality of our AE software that would integrate seamlessly. The company's support for Checkout has been minimal at best, and now totally abandoned. That colors our view of Priority's support unfortunately. And to be honest, that's why it's a 9 instead of a 10. So to be fair, AccountEdge's support itself has been very good over the years.

Incentivized

unfortunately no.

Incentivized

In our search for inventory management software, we read reviews online and set up demos with many companies. We were open to trying retail focused software liked Vend because they were modern and cloud based. TradeGecko was a viable option, however lacked all the features we needed for our unique wholesale business. We migrated to Cin7 for 2 years but were unhappy with their server down time, their customer support and the subscription fee change. Ultimately we came across OMS because other people in our industry recommended OMS and found that OMS addressed our wholesale businesses needs.

Incentivized

My hands down preference is to keep my accounting off of the cloud but that is not always the case with my clients. So, to make this comparison somewhat fair I will consider only the items containing parity in cloud vs desktop. AccountEdge vs Xero. AccountEdge has superior interface and key response because an internet connection is generally not as responsive as localized software. Period. I also feel that AccountEdge is far more robust in features as well as how my data is presented (visually). I require uniform naming/wording conventions so I can better assimilate data. While this is possible in Xero, it's not as easy to accomplish because of screen response and keyboard workflow. Mouse oriented vs. keyboard oriented. AccountEdge vs QuickBooks for Mac. Succinctly put: cross-platform. AccountEdge data files do not require "saving as" Windows copies or any other such nonsense conversion. They just work equally well on either platform. So for users whose platforms do not match their accountant's, there is simply no issue. Additionally, Acclivity will give a user's accountant a copy of the software for free.

Incentivized

• OMS reduced invoicing errors by allowing us to sell based on wholesale units, like cases or pallets.
• We previously used cloud based software where we experienced downtime and could not create invoices. We do not experience any down time with OMS.
• OMS is purchased as a lump sump 1 time payment, so we are not surprised by any pricing changes. However we incurred the cost of setting up a server and backing up the data.

Incentivized

• If I didn't have AccountEdge, I would have to make do with Excel spreadsheets, or go back to paper, as I did before 1995, and I wouldn't be able to access client information as easily as I can here.
• It allows me to manage cash easily, so if clients are slow-paying, I can borrow funds to meet expenses, without incurring overdraft fees, until they come through.

Incentivized