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The classic UK desktop accounting software, now cloud connected with Sage Copilot

4.0Based on 142 reviews

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4.0

142 reviews

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Marion W.Verified reviewer

Managing Director, Holloway Ltd

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Information Technology and Services51-200 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 2+ years
4.0
Reviewed on 10 November 2024

The workhorse earns its keep

Support have been decent whenever we called, the product is stable, and MTD has been faultless. The renewal negotiation is now an annual fixture though.

Ease of use
4.0
Customer service
3.0
Value for money
3.0
Functionality
3.0
Pros

It never falls over, uptime is whatever our own PC allows.

Cons

Interface is dated and dense, training new staff takes real time.

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Craig EllisonVerified reviewer

Financial Controller, Harwood Supplies

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Manufacturing11-50 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 2+ years
5.0
Reviewed on 24 October 2024

MTD handled without drama

Being able to give the auditors read access and let them help themselves saved us a week of pulling samples this year.

Ease of use
5.0
Customer service
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
5.0
Pros

It has simply never lost data in all our years on it.

Cons

Support hold times in VAT deadline weeks are painful.

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Yvonne S.Verified reviewer

Accounts Assistant, Ingleton Services

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Farming11-50 employeesUnited StatesUsed: 2+ years
5.0
Reviewed on 22 October 2024

Depth the cloud products still lack

Being able to give the auditors read access and let them help themselves saved us a week of pulling samples this year.

Ease of use
5.0
Customer service
5.0
Value for money
4.0
Pros

Everything reconciles, the ledgers are watertight and the audit trail is complete.

Cons

Honestly not much, it does what we bought it for.

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Imran D.

Office Manager, Farndale

Textiles11-50 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 2+ years
5.0
Reviewed on 15 October 2024

Our accountant would riot if we moved

Being able to give the auditors read access and let them help themselves saved us a week of pulling samples this year.

Ease of use
5.0
Customer service
5.0
Value for money
4.0
Functionality
4.0
Pros

Remote data access lets the accountant work on live data instead of backups.

Cons

None that would make us move, and we have looked.

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Susan GoodallVerified reviewer

Managing Director, Calder Trading

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Farming11-50 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 1-2 years
4.0
Reviewed on 10 September 2024

Four stars from a long term user

New team members take a few weeks to get comfortable, but once trained they are faster on this than anything else we have used.

Ease of use
5.0
Customer service
3.0
Value for money
4.0
Functionality
4.0
Pros

Project costing keeps jobs profitable and visible.

Cons

Foreign currency on Standard being a paid extra feels mean.

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Michael S.

Managing Director, Whitby Holdings

Food Production2-10 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 1-2 years
5.0
Reviewed on 8 September 2024

The right tool for a real stock business

Every VAT quarter for the last six years has gone to HMRC from the software without a single rejection. That kind of dependability buys a lot of forgiveness for dated screens.

Ease of use
5.0
Customer service
5.0
Value for money
4.0
Functionality
5.0
Pros

Sales and purchase order processing that flows through to stock and invoices.

Cons

Screens are dense and dated, new staff take longer to train than on cloud products.

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Sinead E.

Financial Controller

Building Materials51-200 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 1-2 years
3.0
Reviewed on 28 August 2024

Steady but stuck in its ways

It does everything on the tin. The tin, however, is priced like a premium product while feeling like a legacy one.

Ease of use
3.0
Customer service
3.0
Functionality
3.0
Pros

It fails safely, nothing is ever lost even when screens freeze.

Cons

Everything beyond the core is a chargeable extra.

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Tracey Ellison

Finance Director

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering11-50 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 2+ years
4.0
Reviewed on 14 August 2024

Does the hard stuff well

Remote access lets me do month end from home now, which the old versions never allowed. Not as slick as a browser product but genuinely workable.

Ease of use
4.0
Customer service
4.0
Value for money
3.0
Functionality
4.0
Pros

Order processing flows cleanly into stock and invoicing.

Cons

Updates occasionally shuffle menus and muscle memory suffers.

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Aled OpenshawVerified reviewer

Finance Director, Kirkstone Holdings

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Building Materials2-10 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 2+ years
5.0
Reviewed on 22 July 2024

Survives auditors, banks and VAT inspections

It has swallowed fifteen years of our trading history and still opens a report across all of it in seconds. Long memory matters in a business like ours.

Ease of use
4.0
Customer service
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
5.0
Pros

AI document capture posts supplier invoices with startling accuracy.

Cons

Data checks and rebuilds are an occasional ritual you learn to schedule.

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Peter J.

Financial Controller

Accounting51-200 employeesUnited KingdomUsed: 2+ years
4.0
Reviewed on 19 July 2024

Strong ledgers, average interface

The functionality is genuinely strong, stock, orders, reporting, all of it. The experience of using it is where the age shows, dense screens and a real learning curve.

Ease of use
5.0
Customer service
4.0
Pros

Project costing keeps jobs profitable and visible.

Cons

Costs rise annually and additions like CIS and users are all charged.

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