We know Lifehacker readers are big fans of e-tax, and we suspect many of our business-minded audience may also use the business-targeted E-Record. So it’s worth reminding the latter than the ATO is dumping support for the latter after this financial year, having decided that commercial providers can better serve the needs of the business sector.
The ATO will stop supplying the E-Record software after July 1 2010, and won’t offer any support for the software after September this year — which means no matter how much you might like it, you’ll need to look for another alternative for next financial year. You’ll also need to consider migrating older records into your new platform in some form, ideally via electronic transfer but in a worst-case scenario via printouts and rekeying (a sad but sometimes unavoidable reality).
E-Record Withdrawal [ATO]
Clint
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 3:09 PMWould be great if you could do a write up on the pros and cons of some tax packages. A few free ones would be nice.
TommyH
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 6:40 PMHave used E-Record for about 2 years. It’s great. Simple to use. So whats the alternative?
John Kirkham
Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 8:47 AMThing is, you can still use e-record until the GST rate changes from 10%… in the future. The only reason they’re stopping it is due to staff cutbacks.
Luke
Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 2:41 PMFinally they have seen the light!!
Mark Fuller
Monday, April 19, 2010 at 12:48 PMMaybe this feature comparison of small business accounting software between Cashflow Manager vs eRecord helps:
http://www.smallbusinesslog.com/why-cashflow-manager/
The ROI comparison can be found here:
http://www.smallbusinesslog.com/why-cashflow-manager/how-much-it-cost/
Sandra Evans
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 9:50 PMThe only replacement that seems to come up is CashFlow which is listed at $495.00. I cannot believe that the Australian Govt has decided to cease supporting eRecord which is a simplistic accounting tool for small business operators. It would seem to me that the cost of ATO auditing would exceed the cost to support software developer and online support for eRecord. Lets hope that someone will see reason and a cheap replacement will surface within the next few years. Those of us who are converted eRecord users would really be interested in such a solution.
Dan
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 9:46 PMJust visit http://www.e-record.com.au to find the new replacement software for ATO’s old e-record system.
Peter
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 3:45 PMHow about some disclosure, assuming that you are the Dan Nicolaysen who owns the e-record.com.au domain? And surely that should be “a replacement”, not “the replacement”…
Robert
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 3:51 PMIs there a product out there such as MYOB , that might be able to open existing e record files.