Detailed listing of features introduced in each version of MYOB Accounting
| Version | ||||||||
| MYOB Accounting features introduced | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 18 | |
| Licencing | General | Site code | Activation | |||||
| Ability to fax quotation, sales invoice, purchase orders, or reports directly from MYOB, without having to print them first | General | √ | ||||||
| Call up built-in calculator and calendar by pressing the spacebar on the keyboard | General | √ | ||||||
| Report on departments by defining categories. This allows you to print departmental balance sheet | General | √ | ||||||
| Use the right mouse click to get help in any windows | General | √ | ||||||
| Job ID expanded from 5 characters to 15 characters | General | √ | ||||||
| Scheduling of recurring transactions and ability to set alerts for specific user ID's | General | √ | ||||||
| Save changes to a recurring transaction when you record it | General | √ | ||||||
| Create a copy of a recurring transaction for more than one card | General | √ | ||||||
| Set a lock period date (as compared to locking by month only) | General | √ | ||||||
| Ability to import and export jobs | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Introduction of Company data auditor to help in review of exceptions | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Introduction of Audit Trail Tracking | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Security enhanced by requiring user ID and password | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Ability to send audit reports to the accountant via send accountant process | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Ability to enter budgets for future year (before the end of the financial year), view and enter budgets for every account in a single window, and easier use of Budget shortcuts | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Ability to export and import budget figures | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Ability to retain closed transactions for 7 years when doing a Start a new Financial year | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Ability to merge accounts into a single account record (need to be of same type) | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Ability to import and export custom lists and contact logs | Accounts | √ | ||||||
| Enter 255 character memo on each line in Spend Money, Receive Money or General Journal transaction | Accounts/Banking | √ | ||||||
| Import bank statements for automated bank reconciliation | Banking | √ | ||||||
| Enter all cash-related transactions in one Bank Register window | Banking | √ | ||||||
| Automated bank reconciliation - import bank statements for selected banks. Review the Get statement log for more information about transactions that were skipped while importing a bank statement | Banking | √ | ||||||
| While importing a bank statement, drill down via the Match Transaction to fix typographical errors | Banking | √ | ||||||
| Credit card charges can be recorded in the Bank Deposit window | Banking | √ | ||||||
| Ability to undo bank reconciliation | Banking | √ | ||||||
| Prevent users from undoing bank reconciliations | Banking | √ | ||||||
| Card file is integrated with jobs function to track reimbursable items by job | Card file | √ | ||||||
| Select from 5 alternative email address stored in the card file when sending an email. | Card file | √ | ||||||
| Password protect the contact log to prevent others from seeing sensitive information | Card file | √ | ||||||
| Ability to merge cards into a single card (need to be of same type) | Card file | √ | ||||||
| Ability to synchronise the card file with Microsoft Outlook | Card file | √ | ||||||
| Enhanced search options for Cards (Co. Name, First name, Address, City, Postcode, Phone no, email etc ), Item Lists (Description, Primary supplier, Supplier item no.) and Activity Lists (Activity ID or Activity Name) | Card File / Inventory | √ | ||||||
| Recall, edit, reverse and delete inventory adjustments and transfers | Inventory | √ | ||||||
| Inventory value reconciliation report which enables you to quickly check that the items list reconciles with the linked Inventory accounts at any date. | Inventory | √ | ||||||
| Stock movement report - Items Register - which shows a list of sales, purchase and inventory transactions that have been recorded for an item during a particular month, along with a running balance of its value and quantity, at any date | Inventory | √ | ||||||
| New feature- Receive Items - allows you to track goods received from supplier on partial basis. | Inventory | √ | ||||||
| Allow sale of items with insufficient quantity on hand | Inventory | √ | ||||||
| Audit trail is created when you subsequently record the bill for Receive Items transactions | Inventory | √ | ||||||
| Choose to print reports of inventory grouped by location in selected reports (Item lists, Item Sales, Item Purchases, Customer Sales, Supplier Purchases, Salesperson Sales report) | Inventory | √ | ||||||
| Ability to store a standard buying price for an inventoried item | Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Ability to receive items into stock before receiving the purchase bill | Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Automatically enter the last purchase price or the Standard cost when entering purchases. | Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Ability to enter details in up to 5 address fields per customer, with additional fields for email and phone | Sales | √ | ||||||
| Automatically adjust tax amounts by creating an adjusting invoice when an early payment discount is given | Sales | √ | ||||||
| Process customer payments faster, by selecting Receive All, in Receive Payments window | Sales | √ | ||||||
| Ability to email customer statements | Sales | √ | ||||||
| Itemised customer invoice statement to show payments, customer credits, and discounts that have been applied to each invoice | Sales | √ | ||||||
| Ability to create convertible quotes and orders, invoices and bills | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| View all transactions for Sales and Purchase in one location via the Sales and Purchase Register. | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Ability to email quotations, invoices, orders and reports | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Include headers and subtotal lines on invoices and purchases | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Check for duplicate customer purchase order numbers, or supplier invoice numbers | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Set and edit a default email message for invoices, statements and bills | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Ability to email invoices, statements and bills in batches. | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Ability to import and export supplier and customer payments | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Automatically enter a sales order line item on a purchase order | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Able to edit supplier bill payment and customer payment transactions (cheque no, date, and memo, bank account) | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Include inventory locations on the sales and purchase forms | Sales/ Purchases | √ | ||||||
| Ability to bill both items and time on a single invoice | Sales/Time Billing | √ | ||||||
| Customising form-addition of gridlines, and ability to snap to gridline | Forms | √ | ||||||
| Customising form-ability to insert and remove fields via a drop down menu | Forms | √ | ||||||
| Customising forms- ability to add borders, colours and watermarks | Forms | √ | ||||||
| Remittance advices to include previous payments, debits, discounts and other data | Forms | √ | ||||||
| Preview forms before printing, applicable to all forms (sales, purchase, payment voucher, cheque and remittance advice forms) | Forms | √ | ||||||
| Drill down from Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Reports to the Find Transactions window | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Drag report columns into new positions, or re-size columns by dragging to the desired width. | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Edit the reports date filter directly from the Report display. | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Ability to filter the transaction journal by Journal ID | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Customising Reports- easier to add and delete columns | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Customising Reports-ability to add favourite reports to the Reports menu | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Report of Linked accounts | Reports | √ | ||||||
| New Reports for Receivables (and Payables) Summary with tax paid / payable. | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Save advanced filter settings and finishing settings for customised reports | Reports | √ | ||||||
| Select account list by name or number | Preferences | √ | ||||||
| Automatically check spelling when entering text fields in Sales, Purchases and Item information. | Preferences | √ | ||||||
