Phoenix For Accountants, Consultants & Bookkeepers

“I initially switched from Phoenix to Xero on the advice of our accountant, hoping to save time in the office. However, I quickly realised that Xero lacked the specific reporting capabilities essential for our agricultural business. Extracting the necessary data was cumbersome. After a year- a very long year -I was eager to return to Phoenix.

Phoenix is designed specifically for the agriculture industry, making it perfectly suited to our business. The ease of use, the ability to speak with someone in Australia when I need support, and the helpful online tutorials make Phoenix the ideal choice for managing our farm’s finances. I highly recommend AGDATA’s Phoenix to anyone in the agricultural sector looking for reliable and industry-specific financial management software.”

One of the things we love about Phoenix Live is the ability to give our partners in the business access remotely. So now our accountant and bank manager relationship is a very simple situation.

Finding the time for the office is sometimes a challenge and not a task everyone in the business enjoys! Phoenix allows us to easily keep up to date with our financial position with the program trusted, easy to use and update, and critical to our business success. Information can be easily shared with our accountant and backed up to ensure its security and this gives us peace of mind.

We rely a lot on the quantities when entering our grain, hay or stock numbers, this helps when budgeting with our farm consultant. The program is easily shared between our accountant and our farm consultant, making easy emailing of the backups for their viewing. The GST function is awesome. I have worked with other accounting packages but Phoenix works for our farming enterprise. We still run a desktop version as the internet is not reliable enough for the live version.

Financials and budgeting are key in any business. To be able to compile it all in the program and then send it to our account is terrific. We also use the invoicing for our customers/suppliers. This is very simple to use and it looks professional.

Our business structure has become increasingly complex and Phoenix has accommodated all of that complexity. Phoenix has continuously improved over the years making financial reporting so much more efficient. There are always times when small errors in financial reporting are made, and I love that Phoenix allows me to rectify errors easily. It’s so intuitive. Recently we’ve moved into paying wages and the timesheet and STP is amazingly efficient. The software has grown so much to make bookkeeping so much easier and time efficient. I have had experience with other financial and timesheet reporting programs in other businesses I have been involved with, but Phoenix is so comprehensive that we won’t be moving away from this suite of tools.”

Phoenix Budget worktables are quite possibly the key function that gives Phoenix an edge over other budgeting tools, by giving meaningful assumptions to support the budget. Lenders need evidence of accountability and good business management.