Climbing the Mountain

I would love to see the "Not Advanced" edition of Everest... When a company puts out a product, you generally expect that it will function as expected without much tweaking. If you decide to take the plunge and purchase Everest Advanced Edition for your business, throw that idea out the window. I will say this: It does function as expected about 75% of the time. My issues are with the data importers.. Everest built an importer for just about anything you can think of. One would think, Great! This will be faily easy! FML...

After sitting here dealing with the new company wizard for the past day and a half, I am ready to throw something through a window. You are suppossed to be able to import all of your customers/vendors/chart of accounts/etc.. I wrestled with the COA importer for 6 hours, tweaking, casting data types, retweaking, cursing, re-casting, filtering, changing, more cursing, and finally ended up hand-entering all 256 accounts. This is not how it should be. Probably another "feature" of the program, just like the 5 character limit on the password.. No matter what order I used to enter the accounts, I would run into errors, "This account already exists" or "Parent account does not exist" or some other variation of the two...

Now on to the inventory items, it has taken over 30 minutes to import 437 items. The importer works (thank god..) but it is abnormally slow.. I ran a trace on the SQL database to see what's up, it appears to issue over 50 statements to import one item.. relational databases on crack.