Hello,

Have any of you had the chance to be a beta tester for Version 5.0 of Modernbill? If not, it is pretty sweet. For week one it was greatly limited; however, the thought of a built in accounting system is awesome. What is everyone else feeling on the new beta testing if you have gotten the chance to test it?

I think it needs another few weeks before it will be stable.. but our prelimary testing on the beta versions show it has A LOT of potential. I think within 6 months, there will be a solid foundation of 3rd party scripts that take advantage of the MBAPI.

MB has a winner with this one, I think.

mrzippy,

Going through and testing it the potential was definitely there. I see how it will make life much easier and how employees will be able to learn the software quicker.

As for week two, I have not even gotten to install yet. It has been hectic around here. Does anyone else have any opinions?

I guess you are very optimistic here.
We also gave a test drive to the beta version and, IMHO, it is far far away from a stable version. I would expect more weeks or even monthes before seeing what i am calling a stable version of v5

Anyway, i agree with you, seems it has a huge potential

WebDomain,

Here is the only issue about several months. From what I understand the Modernbill Second Annual Workship is suppose to be the public release. The date on that is March 1 -3. How do you think they will pull that off? That is a little over a month away.

Honestly, i can't answer to this question.
I gave my own impression after testing the beta. And, to my own point of view, there was still a long long way before a release candidate version....
Anyway, i saw their devellopers working, this is a team of 5 persons which seems to be really affaired and busy...

Wait and see.

Yes, we will have to see.

Next monday is coming out the beta 3

I haven't tested it. Will wait for its final release
Did not even know that it was already on Beta Testing.

We've been testing the last beta quick a bit. It's very nice. Still very basic.. but it's still beta software, so we did not expect too many advanced features.

This week, ModernBill is having their annual hosting conference, and then I think they'll be back to the project 100% to finish it up. My understanding is that a Release Candidate (RC) version will be ready by middle of this month.

The company has been very good about keeping communication open and ongoing, using their community forums. I've been impressed througout the entire development cycle.

I just returned from the ModernBill hosting conference, and am very pleased with what I saw of the application. I don't believe it's 100% feature-complete yet, though it's pretty close. The developers said that they'll be making tweaks to the UI and to some of the minor feature workings, based on feedback from the conference. (It was very informative, by the way. Two of us attended, and we're both glad we did. There were some industry- and general business-issue discussions, as well as plenty of MB-specific talks with the developers.)

We don't currently use ModernBill, and from what I heard at the conference, I'm glad we waited. It won't be an "upgrade" so much as a "migration", the changes to the database are that profound. The UI is easily customizable, multibranding support looks wonderfully solid, the accounting features are very very nice and will really make things easier come tax reporting time...but due to time constraints, I haven't downloaded any of the beta versions.

I'd love to know if anyone found the easter egg, though. I'm dying of curiosity...

Glad, to hear the conference went well. Unfortinitely, I was unable to attend. I look forward to seeing the finished product.

I do believe that tha tax software. From being on the account end of things I do believe that they did do a nice job and did there research. If you have any more feedback let me know. I have not had the change to test anyone past week two. Life is busy busy busy. There are some new product lines roling out that are driving me CRAZY.

For a complete review of the 2006 ModernBill conference from the perspective of an existing modernbill user who needs/wants added functionality and increased ease-of-use, please go to http://tinyurl.co.uk/345w .

Excerpt:

"Going through the review of the software, it is a very robust and highly customizable piece of software. They tout an integrated, fully-functional accounting package that does everything except print checks. They claim it automates many different tasks from handling your web hosting billing (integrated with approved merchant accounts) to registering domains for your customers using your account with supported registrars as well as provisioning hosting on your servers. This should make initial setup for a new customer nearly (if not totally) automated and fairly painless."

We are currently looking at switching to HSPComplete for many reasons (the least of which not being you can't port your data from ver 4 to ver 5) spelled out in my review.

Tracy

I looked at ModernBill v5 and was digusted with it. It's so bloated and disorganized...it made me sick. That was when I decided to move back to ClientExec. They made a LOT of big mistakes when they made v5 if you ask me. Too much crap -- there was already enough in v4.

Agreed. Our company is now back with ClientExec and is very satisfied. Modernbill is just turning into an unorganized piece of bloat ware while ClientExec's UI is very organized and there invoice system doesn't glitch. ClientExec is 10 times easier to setup as well. There might be some people who "require" modernbill because maybe out of all of it's bloatware, there is a feature that they actually need that ClientExec doesn't have (well yet). How about you just head on over to ClientExec's forums though, post under "Feature Requests" with that one needed feature that modernbill has that you need, they will probably put it in the next release, and then you can be happy with ClientExec like we are.

Yup