We have recently switched over to Essentials, and I must say I'm not impressed so far. Bank feeds do make life a little easier and the payroll function seems to be up to par. Overall though, I regret we made the switch.
The forums are great but I'm not sure if others have found it as time consuming as I, sifting through thousands and thousands of posts using basic key words.
A couple of complaints (so far):
There is no way to customise supplier cards to automatically allocate transactions to a specific account and GST code, a number of our suppliers ONLY deal with one type of supply (e.g. fresh produce).
We do a lot of cash transactions (income and expenses) and using the "Spend Money" function to input the transactions is very clumsy and time consuming. Obviously no way to FEED the information directly into the system but surely MYOB could make the function more streamlined.
I have noted this on other posts and the idea is on the "to do" list, there is no function to set up recurring transactions, ridiculous.
If anyone has a work-around for any of these issues I would very much like to hear it.
Cheers