" As a consultant with accounting background I genuinely believe that AstrA is a total system. "

" We are totally impressed by your ability to produce year end figures so speedily and so accurately. The accounts you present as year end management accounts are both clear and informative. The NatWest Bank is equally impressed with the clarity with which you provide information. "

" We run our accounts happily on a Mac and AstrA Overture - which is sophisticated enough for our needs. "

" Alternative Stock Items - this is brilliant news, a real competitive marketing edge in software available to the motor industry, electrical industry and related areas. "

" AstrA Premier and Professional are crammed with features. "

" AstrA Premier and Professional are the undisputed leaders in the area of links to and use of electronic point of sale terminals - no other package prints out bar codes, provides interfaces with tally roll printers and cash drawers, and allows advertisements to be displayed as screen savers on idle terminals. "

" AstrA has several levels of each type of analysis, with suitable reports for each level. It also supports exports and macros, to let you automate links to other packages to produce any report sorted in any way. All the other packages produce returns, but AstrA provides the supporting details. Only AstrA handles charges for second-hand goods directly.

In the area of stock AstrA provides a different league of functionality: multiple categories of stock, price matrices, serial number tracking, and multiple warehouses (AstrA even offers multiple locations within each arehouse).

AstrA has proper consolidation routines, letting you keep companies in separate data files. AstrA professional can deal with translation of multiple currencies.

AstrA already supports macros from within the product, which enable data to be linked to any other application - this will be particularly useful in combination with FileMaker Pro for sorting, searching and adding further information, and Excel for graphs.

AstrA has achieved great success internationally, partly as a result of supporting 15 languages and providing multicurrency translation, but also through its impressive array of of features for EPOS systems. "

" We found Sage very complicated, whereas AstrA did the same job without the complications. After only a single day of training we were up and running and have never looked back. New members of staff were surprised how easy the system was to learn. I would recommend AstrA to anyone currently considering installing an accounting package. "

" I was impressed with the simplicity of the systems and, as you know I do not come from an accountancy background, the ease with which you could move from one screen to another. The degree of thought which had been applied to programming the systems was impressive and imaginative. "

" Finally may we congratulate you on an excellent product which satisfies all our criteria on support, product stability, and user friendliness. "