Just got my Mac Studio M2 Max and my old AccountEdge Pro does not work with Sonoma. I don't want or need a subscription based app. I'm self employed graphic designer with no employees. I need to do invoicing and tax reports. What are you using or what do you suggest?
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Do you know if it works with Ventura? If so, you can downgrade using an USB installer and keep using it.
I think it goes through Catalina then they went subscription only. I'm going to make a boot drive of my old system on an SSD to do my accounting until I find another accounting app. I can always buy a cheaper display and keep the old mac running to do the accounting I guess.
Keep in mind that Mac cannot run anything below Ventura 13.4. If you absolutely need Catalina it has to be on an older Mac.
Check out Manager.IO. Free for desktop use (full operation, no ads, no limits, no b.s.). Full featured (comparing well with what I remember about AccountEdge), moderately customizable, full array of reporting, project-inventory-time invoicing, very fast, stable and reliable so far. The support forums are active, generally friendly, and the developers very responsive.
I run my equestrian facility, and my own graphics/photo studio in Manager. The quality overall is surprisingly good. Well worth putting up with a few petty feature niggles.
Local apps for Mac (all OSs for the last decade), Windows and Linux. Files are totally cross platform.
Manager Does NOT do payroll (which is fine, I'm sole LLC). It does NOT directly plug into Tax submission apps (which is fine, because in livestock agriculture + land use, I got a tax guy who starts with my standard reports.)
I run my equestrian facility, and my own graphics/photo studio in Manager. The quality overall is surprisingly good. Well worth putting up with a few petty feature niggles.
Local apps for Mac (all OSs for the last decade), Windows and Linux. Files are totally cross platform.
Manager Does NOT do payroll (which is fine, I'm sole LLC). It does NOT directly plug into Tax submission apps (which is fine, because in livestock agriculture + land use, I got a tax guy who starts with my standard reports.)
There are a couple open source ERP packages you might consider. The Apache Ofbiz project is one of them.
yeah, that's precisely what I thought, too
. At first. My internal monolog went something like this: "WTH? This looks to good to be really free. I refuse to investigate it. Can't trust providers unless you have to pay. Besides, I'd be doing Manager.IO a favor NOT using it, because their forums show their dev supports even the free desktop users. They can't sustain a charity effort like this... But I really don't want to develop something myself... FINEuhhh!"So, as the Greedy, Callous, Hapless Knucklehead I am, I started using it. Now I'm a much older GCHK, and the Manager.IO desktop app is still free, still runs strictly locally, still fully functional, and still improving with constant builds. And the devs seem to support users of the free desktop version the same as the paid commercial server/cloud versions. I've never had my database fail to load after a code update. And older versions run alongside the newer, just in case.
But, sure, ignore Manager.IO, do them the favor. Then WE can keep all the support to ourselves 👍