Question:
An accounts package to incorporate the payroll feature may also be
considered.
Does anybody have any ideas or experiences with such software ?
Answer:
Company called Redsky have a package that is specifically aimed at the
construction industry, copes with sub-contractors, PAYE and also project
management accounting including retentions.
I understand it's not a "budget" package, and I have personally never
used it, however several colleagues have commented on how good it is.
If you can't find them come back to me and I'll find a phone number.
An integrated 32bit accounting package. All the accounting stuff you'd
expect (multi currency, multi company, cash books, already euro enabled,
SOP, POP, etc, etc), BUT it includes the best job costing package I've seen
for a long while (real job to job transfers, rententions, estimates,
timesheet entry, job cards, post directly to jobs from anywhere (cash book,
sales, purchase, SOP, POP) job types, job groups, job stages, job
priorities, etc, etc) and with "withholding tax" functionality to deal with
sub-contractors.
I've never seen Redsky, although it has been mentioned here before. However
my experience of "industry packages" is that they are often expensive
(hinted at, I think, by Ian)
When I left the industry it was all SC60's, but I'm aware the theory is
still the same (just more stringent !!)
The Chartered Institute of Building, in Ascot, used to have a regular
publication "Construction Computing" which used to list relevant
software.
It depends on the size of your budget.
