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Hi, and thanks in advance for any help you can offer. The business I work for has been using *extremely* old SAGE software (it ran on DOS!) to do our customer invoices/credit notes etc. Unfortunately, the computer it was on has now died and there is no way to restore the programme (local PC repair place has tried everything, but the data has all been corrupted). As such, we now need a new invoicing programme/website that can do the same thing that our old one did - you wouldn't think this would be hard, with it being so old, but actually I've tried about 6 new ones and none of them have the same functionality - it is driving me completely mad. The main things we need are:
- Add products to the system, and give them a discount CODE. Not just a standard discount of, say 5%, but rather a code A, B, or C (you can then set those codes as you want them, so A could be no discount, B could be 5% and C 10%).
- Add customers to the system, and give them a relevant discount code too. So for example, if Customer 1 has code A, then any product they order will have the relevant discount you have put in, whereas if they are code B, they do not get any discounts.
- Need to be able to produce loading/packing sheets, ie a run down of all the products in a given set of invoices (that you can select manually), so that I can hand that to the driver and he knows what to load into the van.
The reason I give these 3 above is because these are what I've been struggling to find, particularly the first 2. I have tried Zoho, Xero, Freshbooks, Quickbooks, Invoicely, Invoicera... the only one that can do everything that we need is the *Professional* version of SAGE50, but this costs close to £150 per month! We don't need all the fancy things that it comes with, as we have a separate working SAGE (another old one) that does all the other accounting, payroll etc. So we cannot justify spending nearly £2000 per year just for invoicing software, but without the discount codes, it's going to be extremely difficult for us to produce the invoices like we were.
Just for more information - we are a food manufacturer, so I will often do around 30/40 invoices at the end of the day, and if we are selling to a retailer they usually get a discount on certain items, whereas individuals/caterers/bakeries etc do not receive that discount. With the discount codes, it is simple and all the discounts are already in place as soon as you add the items. If I have to add them manually each time to every invoice it will take ages.
I know it's a long shot but can anyone help?? Thank you so much!
- Add products to the system, and give them a discount CODE. Not just a standard discount of, say 5%, but rather a code A, B, or C (you can then set those codes as you want them, so A could be no discount, B could be 5% and C 10%).
- Add customers to the system, and give them a relevant discount code too. So for example, if Customer 1 has code A, then any product they order will have the relevant discount you have put in, whereas if they are code B, they do not get any discounts.
- Need to be able to produce loading/packing sheets, ie a run down of all the products in a given set of invoices (that you can select manually), so that I can hand that to the driver and he knows what to load into the van.
The reason I give these 3 above is because these are what I've been struggling to find, particularly the first 2. I have tried Zoho, Xero, Freshbooks, Quickbooks, Invoicely, Invoicera... the only one that can do everything that we need is the *Professional* version of SAGE50, but this costs close to £150 per month! We don't need all the fancy things that it comes with, as we have a separate working SAGE (another old one) that does all the other accounting, payroll etc. So we cannot justify spending nearly £2000 per year just for invoicing software, but without the discount codes, it's going to be extremely difficult for us to produce the invoices like we were.
Just for more information - we are a food manufacturer, so I will often do around 30/40 invoices at the end of the day, and if we are selling to a retailer they usually get a discount on certain items, whereas individuals/caterers/bakeries etc do not receive that discount. With the discount codes, it is simple and all the discounts are already in place as soon as you add the items. If I have to add them manually each time to every invoice it will take ages.
I know it's a long shot but can anyone help?? Thank you so much!
