
Originally Posted by
Alec Candiotes
Hi Lindsay
I agree with Kevin and Neville regarding Pastel Xpress. Xpress gives you most of Partner's functionality. Most importantly is that you do not loose your transactional history as Xpress posts to a PSQL database as Partner does. Losing your transactional history is a big cost.
Your business data is one of your most valuable assets. I recommend you protect it as far as possible.
But Lindsay I can completely understand where you are. Admin and finance costs can be a heavy weight on a company. For me one of the biggest costs of Pastel is when users do not use it effectively. Capturing 1 by 1 transaction on a line by line basis for instance is slow and very expensive. Have you considered optimising and automating your capturing and reporting? In this way you free up time and resources to use elsewhere. Secondly are you using Pastel as a full ERP system or only an accounting system. For instance are you using it to quote, as a marketing database, to forecast and budget with etc etc.?? I have noted that SME's often use multiple tools and Apps to do all of this with. Consolidating all these activities into Pastel cuts out waste and ensure that your entire team focuses on enhancing the data within Pastel.
Hope this helps a little.
Kindest regards,
Alec Candiotes CA(SA), MCom Taxation
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