Ok - I'm just venting since I know there's nothing I can do about it. Just received an email this morning that Sage 50 Complete is being discontinued. The good news is that we will be able to download & run Sage 50 2015 Premium when it is released, and that this year at least we will still be able to renew our Business Care plan at the Complete pricing level. What sucks is we have no need for the Premium features - and next year we'll have to renew our Business Care plan at the Premium level. Last year when Sage forced us to buy the Business Care plan to get payroll updates was a tough pill to swallow since it doubled our cost to run Peachtree. Now in addition to having to pay for support we never use, we'll have to pay for features we'll never use. Our renewal last year was $1,027. Looking at current pricing for 5-user Premium w/ payroll we would be jumping to $1,739/yr So just a couple years ago when we could would buy the new version of the software every three years, 5-user Complete ran $799. Add payroll subscription every year at $279 and my 3 year cost was $1,636 - and averaged yearly cost was $545. My new yearly cost will be $1,739 - or an approximate 320% increase. I wish I could increase my prices by 320% in a 2 year window . . . I could probably understand the increase if they were really improving the product with every release - but it seems more and more that the new feature list each year is primarily populated with cosmetic changes. We're a service business and I've been asking for years for them to do something about the stupid 255 character limit in the AR invoice description field. QB either doesn't have a limit on this field or it's so high our testing never hit it. Instead we have to run our labor work detail over multiple lines on an invoice. This same limit also makes the Time Tickets functionality in Sage 50 worthless for us. Similar gripe with Direct Deposit - how difficult can it be for Sage to add the ability to email DD Advices to employees? Instead we have to print the batch to PDF, split the pages and then manually email each split page to employees on payday. Anyway, I'll just return to grumbling to myself.
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