- Need to start a new file?
- Sold your business and want to provide a MYOB® file to the purchaser
without all your data
- Is your .myox file getting too big to run efficiently?
As your MYOB® file gets bigger, it slows down.
When developing AR2024, MYOB decided against a purge function. If processing is too slow, the advice from MYOB moderators on the Community Forum is to start a new file. In fact to keep file size down, they recommend you start a new file every 3-4 years - directing users to the Exporting/Importing Support Note.
Unfortunately this is not so simple and users can spend hours and hours trying to get it right. Something they don't tell you is many things cannot be imported and must be manually added. These include:
- Payroll categories and all their links to employee cards - this must all be re-done
- Assigned STP Reporting fields
- Recurring Transactions
- Bank Feed Rules
- User profiles
- Preferences
- Superannuation Funds
- Categories
- Default form settings
- Company Information
- Next Invoice No. etc
To save all the hassle of exporting/importing and manually re-entering all of the above, we provide an in-expensive 'new from old' company file service (clone company file). Simply upload your most recent
backup and we will strip all the transaction data and 'amounts' out of the file and return it as a new file ready for your immediate use**.
By way of summary, it will have:
- All Accounts (no balances)
- All Cards with current settings (no outstanding balance or history, no last invoice date). Credit Limit optional
- All Employee settings including Standards Pay. Entitlement Balances optional
- All Inventory Items with current settings (no balance on hand and no stock value)
- All Tax Codes
- All Payroll Categories with links to employees etc, including STP assignments
- All linked accounts and preferences etc
- All Bank Feed Rules
- All Customised forms
- All Jobs/Categories (no balances)
- All Customs Lists, Identifiers etc
- All recurring transactions
- All dates (current year etc)
- All Users and their profiles - optional
Employee Entitlement Balances, Customer Credit Limits and Users will all remain in the file. If you would like any of these cleared, please advise when submitting your file.
You (or your bookkeeper) will need to enter or import any open invoices (to set opening Debtors and Creditors), then enter or import a General Journal to set all other account balances as required. Finally if you use Inventory, enter an Inventory Adjustment Journal to set Items on hand count and value.
When you are ready, stop using your existing file, and start using the new file instead.
*Standard cost is $132 for outcome as outline above for files up to 200 MB. More if you have any specific requests or a larger file. If you would like a quote, upload your file at the upload address available below and then send us an email with the Administrator password, return email address, as well as a brief explanation of what you want done.
**Unless advised otherwise, we will remove the current serial number. This means the file will need to be Activated and allocated a new File ID. If you will be using this new file instead of the current file, let us know and we will leave the current serial number and File ID in the new file.
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without all your data