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    #1

    Alpha Five Accounting

    Just wanted to get an idea of how much interest there would be in my upgrading my A5v1 accounting to A5v5. It's a big project but if enough of you would be interested I can start working on it.
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    RE: Alpha Five Accounting

    John

    It's likely that a lot of the readers on the message board are not familiar with your A5V1 accounting app, so perhaps it would be useful to give some background on the app.

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      #3
      RE: Alpha Five Accounting

      Basically the application provided the following modules:
      Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Invoicing, Inventory, and Purchase Orders. It was originally published in 1995 and a second version released in 1996. It was written in A5v1.02 and had extensive low level Xbasic. It was provided with a 120 page user's guide and all the source code.

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        #4
        RE: Alpha Five Accounting

        John -
        I'd be very interested as long as your method for pricing it out is reasonable.

        This sure seems like a why reinvent the wheel kinda thing and there has been no wheel for recent A5 versions. I'd say get rolling!
        - John Oesterle
        John Oesterle
        ToolBytes, LLC

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          #5
          RE: Alpha Five Accounting

          Obviously it depends on how it works. I'd be interested if it was modular (only parts could be used with my own stuff) and priced reasonably and well documented. Again, the wheel thing.

          Russ

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            #6
            RE: Alpha Five Accounting

            Ditto previous comments!!
            One question though: Can it be used in "Fund Accounting" situations? Churches - Non-Profit Orgs. etc."
            Roll On!
            John

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              #7
              RE: Alpha Five Accounting

              Count me in. Thats coming up on my list of to-do's. Would rather buy and tweak then build and hope.

              Mick

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                #8
                RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                John: I have a client that would be interested, but also pricing and support is important for him and me!

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                  #9
                  RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                  John:
                  I am also interested especially in the order entry.
                  Is there a demo other than your slide show.
                  What version is it currently written in?
                  pricing and support are important.

                  Please post a response or e-mail me

                  Charlie Crimmel

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                    #10
                    RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                    John,

                    I would also be interested...

                    Rick

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                      #11
                      RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                      Charlie,

                      There is only the slide show at this point. It is written in the soon to be released version 5. It will be available as an add-on to Alpha Five.

                      John Magno

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                        #12
                        RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                        The prior version had no support for fund accounting. You would need to modify the system to suit those needs.

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                          #13
                          RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                          I'll post a message when it's going to be available.

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                            #14
                            RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                            John, Where's the slide show?

                            Also, I would mostly be interested in a modular G/L. I will probably write my own A/p and A/R since we tend to do things peculiarly (is that a word?) I would mostly want to batch post to G/L . Depending on how the A/R and A/P were structured I might use parts. I don't need order entry or the other parts.

                            Russ

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                              #15
                              RE: Alpha Five Accounting

                              You can all see the slide show. Visit my web site http://www.JohnMagno.com . Under the Alpha Five logo there is a link to the templates. There will also be a Time & Billing and Contact Manager templates.

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