Danea Easyfatt 2006

Those who are registered for IVA - VAT in the UK, have to prepare VAT invoices and it is useful to have some way of monitoring cash flow.

It is possible to rely on Word and Excel or a small investment in some ‘tax-deductible’ software to may be in order. Last year I bought a program called Business Monitor (Buffetti chain of stores) to keep things under control. Alas, the program did not live up to expectations. It was not at all intuitive to use, read difficult to use, and, to be honest, was probably aimed at larger. However, even simple things, like setting up a customised invoice and finding information, were not straightforward to say the least.

Enter Danea EasyFatt 2006, a Windows accounts and invoice management application, which I acquired at the start of 2006. How I wish I had invested in this application before. It is easy to use, intuitive, flexible and regularly updated - for free, unlike Business Monitor which required an additional payment to obtain a year’s worth of updates.

In addition to being updated at no cost, EasyFatt allows you to make amendments easily (correct mistakes) and to keep your invoice numbering sequential. This is something that Business Monitor could do, but only with some serious messing around. Danea also exports invoices to .pdf format, so you cannot easily make other errors. You can even set up different invoice styles for different organisations if you want.

Everything is clearly at hand and the initial summary screen with its task list and list of outstanding payments is very useful too. Creating new invoices is greatly simplified by the fact that you can use an existing one as a basis, so you don’t have to go typing everything in all over again. Business Monitor could not do this, despite giving the impression that it was more ‘professional’. Not that EastFatt’s functionality is limited. Not at all. It has plenty of functionality and is easy to move from one computer to another should the need arise. You can export data to Excel and OpenOffice Calc for further analysis.

OK, the program is all in Italian, but if you are working in Italy in the Italian system this is to be expected. The only way you could get an English version would be to have someone build you the software, which would be expensive, not to mention difficult because you would need to instruct a translator and errors could creep in. But why bother? Small companies will have Italian employees, and they will find this system quite easy to manage. Additionaly, at least you can be pretty sure that Italian software is going to be well geared towards the Italian system.

Businessisin would recommend this software to small organisations working in the Italian market who wishe to keep everything in one simple to get at place and at 79 Euros + IVA (VAT) it is very good value for money.

There is also a more sophisticated version of Easyfatt 2006, Easyfatt 2006 Professional at €139.00+IVA (VAT), and this extended version adds stock management and can also be integrated with e-commerce solutions, amongst other useful features. For the more demanding user there is Easyfatt 2006 Network, which is the same as the Professional version, but can be built in to a Windows based office network. This version currently costs 388 Euros plus IVA at 20%.

by Alex Roe (from a similar article which first appeared on Blog from Italy).

Contact information for Danea Soft Snc:

Danea Soft Snc
Via Diaz, 162
35010 Vigonza (PD)

Partita Iva e Cod. Fisc. 03365450281

Tel. 049.893.6588 - Fax 049.893.6596

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