The installation is as simple as ever with an automatic update after graduation. A printed manual is not available, but is instead provided as a PDF available. But this is rather unimportant, since on the one hand an online course is delivered and on the other hand a very good user help is available.
Understanding how accounts, business partner u. Ä must. Be created at the beginning. Here you should start as a newcomer with little data from the different areas and then incorporate little by little in the basic functions and shortcuts. Here then one discovers pleasant Supports the pesky booking activities for example you have to account numbers no longer remember, but entering the first few letters of an account name displays a MultiSelect box from which one selects the correct account. Or the system of appointment bookings, automate cost of recurring comfortable. This works through the integration of online banking very well. If necessary can be also set sg Splitter bookings, ie inputs or outputs which are billed spread over several accounts.
In the area of dunning letters and periods to be set, with whom and how often they are to be created in the absence of incoming payments.
There is also an information center, in which can be determined with a few clicks of the current state of their own company and graphed. The indicators are of course and the corresponding graphs give a good feel for the relationship between revenue and expenditure and the resulting gains or losses.
The basic version of the software contains the pure accounting a profit / loss calculation and visualization. As a self, it is possible to switch from the simplified accounting to double-entry bookkeeping, without having to incorporate his data again, or even in any other software.
However, the DATEV account mapping module is only from the PLUS version included that should be considered in accordance with a purchase. The parallel installation on a laptop (next to the workstation) is included only in the higher-quality versions.
I belong to those users who have never had problems with the installation or update of software Lexware. There is also a familiar intuitive user interface and security, neither during initial setup yet to be of use left alone. The help menus and program-specific subsidies are really good and do it, not to let the user in quite even occurring frustration phases alone. Sometimes it also needs will become acquainted with an accountant in 2015, but the end result is worth it.
Compared with the 2014er version in content not much has changed. Only in the balance area current legislative amendments were adopted and updated the Elster interface accordingly. Because I would have then required a corresponding reduction in price.
All in all, recommended for first-time buyers from the groups sole proprietors and small businesses. The initially investing the training period is the result, in my opinion definitely worth. For owners of version 2014 is a new investment that is not necessarily apparent, but is nonetheless necessary. That's annoying. Here Lexware should finally consider corresponding pure update versions and then correspondingly cheaper offer customers to buy.