I wrote and said that I use PTBiz and it meets my needs. That is true. But also, what Tom says below I find to be quite valid also. If I were to start over, I would look very seriously at PianoDB. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano@gate.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: software suggestions > List, > I have been using PTBiz, and honestly after have using it for 2 yrs., don't > like the way the program's usefulness. It is too limiting and cumbersome, > especially in the accounting mode. > To boot, my program either has a flaw in it or some other phenomenon, but it > constantly changes the city listing on various customers...very frustrating > correcting that window over and over again. > Some of the limiting factors I don't like: Reports. > Get a month end report of net sales for the month of July...can't do it > unless you get it for the entire year. It will only give you the year to > date figure. > Should be able to ask for any month or amount of months in any report. But > not this one! > Backup should require a single keystroke and the program should be doing all > the digging and placement of data. Not on this one, you have to save it, > then go into Explorer, then copy it, then send it to a floppy. Not that > this is hard or confusing, just a case where the programmer could have set > up all those keystrokes in the course of planning this out better. You > should here the slack you'll get when you call the author about things like > that! > In the accounting mode: > You have to enter the date 3x in a row for a single invoice.Isn't the job > of the program/er to limit the repetitiveness? > For a given invoice you: > 1.enter the date of the service you would enter > 2001727 ( 7/27/01) then the invoice number, > 2. the date of the service > 3 the date of the service. > Makes perfect sense to me ...hmmmmmm > The troubling part is that when the report is listed, the invoice number is > not listed. Then why did it ask for it? > The rest of the program is fine as it is a straight forward database > program. It's just those little time-consuming things that drive me up the > wall. > I used to use Dean Reyburn's program, and honestly, I'm sorry I ditched it. > It was nice and neat, and extremely efficient. Dummy me figured the DOS > program wouldn't do well with the new advanced machines and apparently I was > wrong. I might go back to the DOS program of Dean's or I would love to hear > about some other favorites out there. > I have been trying to get enough energy up to design an MS Access program > myself but I'm aware of the time obligation I'm committing to. Extra amounts > of slack time is something I don't have enough of. > Please tell me more about PianoDB or other favorites out there. > Tom Servinsky, RPT > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Bondi" <tito@PhilBondi.com> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 2:35 PM > Subject: Re: software > > > > Mike, I use PianoDB. It is pretty friendly and easy to get up and > running..I > > would suggest, however, that you sharpen your MS Access skills if you want > > to do any modifying. Piano DB is based in Access. > > > > I'm no Access wiz by anyone's stretch, but I can fumble around as well as > > anyone else if I want to change something. > > > > There's really not that much to do but start imputing your database to a > > database that's well thought out, regardless of your Access skills. > > > > roo(k) > > >
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