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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Steve's imaginary bookeeping interface

It seems to me that accounting software (this means you Sage) should have an even friendlier interface.

The simplified interface would list EVENTS as follows:

EVENTS:

  1. Bill arrives
  2. Pay - Supplier - Owner - Employee
  3. Invoice Client
  4. Receive money from : Client - Owner - Employee
  5. Employee Starts - Employee Leaves

The POST button should be replaced by : "Are you absolutely sure?"

Right now the software interface is fine for a trained user, but incomprehensible to the average person. The computer could mask much of the complexity and language (or provide it only on when requested in the configuration).

The current system clear to anyone conversant with accounting journals:

  1. From account
  2. To account
  3. Journal Interface
  4. Automatic postings behind Journal interface

But the help and "simple" interface has nothing to do with the mindset of the average user trying to deal with a stack of work.