by Grant on Sep 26, 2004
I have used this software to handle invoicing and inventory for my small publishing business. In almost every respect, it does the job very well and is very easy to use. I have no experience with competing packages, so can't direclty compare, but it is certainly the least expensive of the options of I have found. My only complaints are the following: (1) Name and address fields for customers don't allow enough characters per line for some customers, especially at some foreign addresses or at institutions like universities. It is sometimes a headache to construct an abbreviated version of an address that is still complete and unambiguous. (2) Occasionally, I need to use one name/address for the invoice and a different address to ship the product to. This software doesn't provide for separate invoicing and shipping addresses. (3) When you print shipping labels, you have to select the ones to be printed by way of a range of dates. There is no provision for selecting an individual label to be printed based on, say, invoice number, so you need to twiddle the dates of the invoices sometimes to print out only the ones you want. Mildly annoying when you find yourself preparing new shipments after already having prepared labels from earlier the same day. Overall, I recommend SBII as a good, cost-effective solution for a micro-business, but I hope the above limitations will be addressed in a future version.