Accounting

Hi Dave, Of course you are absolutely right, they all transfer whatever the status. But because I don't want to get caught out by the VAT inspector I always make absolutely sure the monthly totals on the report from RC are exactly the same as the totals we use from the .csv exported figures. Not Paid items do not get included in the RC reports (I just checked again in case I had missed a change!) so we set them all to Paid to get printed RC reports to compare and make absolutely sure both agree. Probably a bit over the top (accountancy background!) but I think this check is worth doing, especially as we have found occasional errors between the RC totals and the exported figures. Support - an example if you are listening. RC10647284 is included in our .csv export for 29/09/11 but not in the sales report totals for that day!). Still can't work out why. Regards, Cliff

Hi, I've been watching and waiting for the greyed out items to go live with interest. For what it's worth I think I would use RC for the sales ledger only. We're on invoice accounting so at present we have to change all Not Paid orders to Paid to export them for the VAT return - then mark them unpaid again to give us the correct creditors figure. I assume a once only tick box for those on Invoice Accounting could be coded to enable Not Paid invoices to be included in the sales totals. I don't think I'd use an online service for our purchase ledger. Many of our sales come in through Roman Cart so integration with the sales ledger is already well on the way. With the sales ledger everything from product cost, rates to accruals would have to be listed. Easy choice for me but I know many of you guys use the products manager with costs (we don't) so your purchase ledger is also partly integrated and calculating the gross profit is an obvious next step. Just my view. Hope it helps.

Are the features of current accounting tab ghosted on all accounts while it's being developed or do I need to activate it somehow?

We have just moved to www.xero.com for all our accounting - online and our accountant just logs in to see what he needs.

Ours is a mix of long term clients, internet orders and shop sales - we just lump the internet orders in with the shop sales.

As we are now only playing at business according to Romancart (why did they ever change from Bronze to Hobby I find that quite patronising!) - we don't need Romancart to do anything else for us.

I've got high hopes for this as it will save a lot of work if you succeed in making a really decent accounting add on to mange your profit/loss sales, cost of goods sold etc. Please make it as good as the rest of the cart!!!