PT MIP Best Sage PT Non Profit series

[Peachtree fan]

I can imagine that this will be a common
theme here. I'm slightly confused and it is probably done on purpose. The PT Non-
Profit series is just Sage putting a PT title on MIP's NPS product ? They did the same thing on Mass 90. There is no real connection between Peachtree Complete and this product from MIP besides being owned by the same parent company? All of the products seem to be accountant friendly.
Does anyone know anything about MIP's NPS ? I have a Not for Profit client that has funds that are allocated for a specific project and needs to track them. Is MIP's product easy to use ? Does it have any major quirks? I went to MIP's website but would like an opinion from a
user.
Thanks

[arcadia2]

I setup MIP for two non-profits several years ago. The product was very expesive and very buggy. Everyone quit using it in just a few months. Unless they have improved it dramatically, I would pass.

I work with several non-profits in the NE Ohio area and they all use peachtree complete without any problems. The current push for non-profits is to use the "unified chart of accounts" which can be found at http://nccs.urban.org/ucoa/nccs-ucoa2.htm. Accounting requirement from funding sources are moving non-profits away from the classical concept of "fund" accounting and we are seeing a more traditional consolidated for-profit approach instead of all those separate funds.

[TheWolf]

My experience was different as I installed for a client recently and they love it. They were having alot of problems doing fund accounting (which is a weak area of mine) and MIP solved this and their reporting issues. They are much smaller company than most and on occasion when you call support you may actually get to speak with one of the designers.

[Peachtree fan]

I assume that you did not install the PT edition. It seems to have just come out.
Also the NPS product seems to be the cheapest.
The only way I could do it in PT without getting fancy is to set up a seperate customer for each donation that has to be tracked ,then make a purchase in Payables for that amount and then reference it back to the receipt in description.Maybe I could go back and add somethig in the description of the receipt when its sent to where it has to go.
How did MIP do it?
It's Appreciated

[TheWolf]

No it wasn't the PT edition as it was about a year ago. I don't know anything about MIP (other than it was designed for non-profits and handles fund accounting) and only found it on a search for my client and I installed it for them. Besides that they ran it themselves and I have only assisted in a technical aspect.