How to convert manager.io file to csv or excel file?

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malfaour,

I hope you will forgive me for commenting on your reasons. I am comparing my experience and knowledge with yours. I don’t think I have better or more. I just have different experience and knowledge because I have not been in the same places doing the same things as you.

  1. 100% true, that you can attach images and receipts to transactions in QuickBooks and cannot in Manager. I have never used this feature in QuickBooks, probably because (if I recall), when the feature first became available, you had to pay extra. I have not used QuickBooks online. I have only used QuickBooks Desktop.

  2. I reckon you have calculated the relative cost.

  3. I think TSV versus CSV files is a non-issue. Excel reads both and can save as both. I think TSV stands for Tab Separated Values. CSV stands for Comma Separated Values. And that is the main difference, whether you use a tab character or a comma to separate the values in a row. You can view TSV and CSV files in Notepad and Word.

    These data files represent a table. The first line is commonly the headings of each column of the table. But you can also just have data without heading labels.

    Each row represents a line in the table which is the same as one record of data.

    So, if you have a table of customer data, you might prefer to use TSV because the customer’s address will have commas in it. But actually, having commas in a data field is not a problem for CSV files because quotes are used when there are commas in the data.

    In any case, Excel can read both and save as both. So, really, TSV versus CSV does not seem like an issue. But being able to import and export TSV or CSV files for more things in QuickBooks could be points in favor of QuickBooks.

  4. Videos are indeed nice. I find Manager so intuitive that I don’t feel the need for a lot of help.

  5. If you have a particular accountant whose services you are set on using, then makes sense that you would have to switch to something your accountant is willing to use. I think QuickBooks allows your accountant to make changes to your entries. Thus, your accountant might re-categorize your expenses to your advantage or to keep you out of trouble. Maybe your accountant will change an expense to an asset and depreciate it.