Wings Accounting is a superior software than any other product available today. It offers superior functionality, features, scope and ease of use than any other.

Here are some top reasons that make Wings Accounting superior to Tally.

1. Report Writer
With the Wings Report Writer, users can create an unlimited number of new reports (or modify existing reports) from existing data. While designing new reports or modifying existing reports, users can do the following:

• Manage columns - insert, delete, move, size, hide columns; define column headings, totaling, cumulative totaling etc
• Define contents of each column
• Insert and apply formulae in individual columns
• Insert and apply conditions in individual columns and for the entire report
• Define report titles etc
• Define appearance of reports - fonts, colour, layout etc

The Report Writer helps users adapt the software to evolving needs which a standard software can not take care of - without having to revert to Wings Infonet Limited and without any programming.

In the absence of a Report Writer, Tally users have to ask a Tally expert (usually an outsider) to design new reports and typically on payment.

2. Forms & Invoice Designer
With the friendly and flexible Forms & Invoice Designer of Wings, users can design an unlimited number of templates to print all kinds of documents. This includes: invoices, delivery notes, material receipt notes, payment vouchers and receipts, cheques, purchase vouchers etc.

Each template can include:

• Static text and images - including company name, logo, pictures, boxes, lines, terms and conditions, field names, column headings etc.
• Variables - to be picked up from transactions when entered

Printing can be done on pre-printed stationery, plain paper and on all kinds of printers including dot matrix printers.

Users can design and modify templates any number of times and use them for when desired.

In the absence of a Designer, Tally users have to ask a Tally expert (usually an outsider) to design templates and typically on payment.

3. Offline Multi Location Accounting
Companies with multiple branches, warehouses, godowns, outlets, projects or other locations have to maintain accounts at each location and then to consolidate them periodically for integrity at the head office.

Wings users can install Wings at individual locations and Wings Central at the HO and easily consolidate transactions centrally in an extremely easy, intelligent and practical manner:

• by transferring incremental data - since the last upload, without having to transfer the complete data
• on CDs or by email
• automatic consolidation of data at the central server and reporting of individual locations or grouped as desired

Wings users do not require a dedicated internet connection, a static IP address or any heavy infrastructure to manage accounts across locations.

Users of Wings at one location cannot access the data of other locations except at the head office, enhancing security.

Tally users require a dedicated, always-on, connection between locations for any integration to happen making it almost unfeasible for most users. Tally users work on a single database across all locations.

4. Confidential Accounting
Wings users can maintain any set of accounts confidential from anyone within the organization, easily and securely.

5. Power Utilities
The Power Utilities of Wings Accounting offers tremendous power to users to do more than ever before:

• create templates to generate reports by picking up variables from Wings reports - highly useful to print documents, forms etc
• generate reports as html, rft, text and pdf files
• email documents directly from Wings
• integrate with Microsoft Office and save reports as Excel files

Tally users can email documents as pdf or html files but do not have the kind of power Wings users have.

6. World Languages
Wings users can work in English and most world and Indian languages including Hindi, Arabic etc. Users can maintain personal dictionaries, enter data and take reports in any language and switch between languages easily. Arabic users get screens oriented right to left.

Tally users have to work only in English.

7. Report Viewer
The free to distribute and use Wings Report Viewer allows outsiders not having Wings to receive and view Wings reports in their native, rich format. Highly useful for auditors, bankers etc.

8. Apparel & Footwear Industry
Wings offers special features for the apparel and footwear industry allowing users to define sizes, colours etc to products and manage inventories accordingly.

9. Excise
Wings users can take care of several of their excise requirements including excise billing, RGX reports, accounting for credits etc. No other accounting software offers this.

10. Extra Fields, Extra Comments
If a Wings user finds any standard transaction screen not capturing all the information he wants, he can always add additional fields - on the fly! The fields not only appear in the transaction screens but can also be added to any reports.

No wonder Wings users find the software adapting to their growing needs easily and not get obsolete.

11. Change Screen Prompts
Wings users can customise the user interface to suit their requirements.

For instance, users can change Screen prompts for any field. Example: the prompt (name) of the field Account appearing in any screen may be changed to, say, Customer.

This gives a user experience more tailored to an individual user's requirement than any Tally user can get.

12. Drop Down Settings
Drop down lists allow users to pick up from lists of accounts, products etc. Wings users get drop down lists which are feature rich - they can be made to offer information about individual items in the list, like balances of accounts or products, address, grouping, credit or stock limits etc. What is more, the user can decide what each drop down list should include.

A utility which is unmatched anywhere, including in Tally.

13. Transaction Screen Settings
Each transaction screen in Wings can be customized by the user by deciding the individual fields that should appear in each screen, default values, tab stops, etc.

Every screen, therefore, can be completely customized in terms of content and usage.

14. True Windows Interface
Wings offers a true Windows interface. It is, therefore, a richer interface than Tally's. It also offers useful features like simultaneous multiple windows to be opened etc. Users can, for instance, create masters during entry of transactions.

15. Auto Backup
Wings users can enable the creation of a complete back up data automatically before the beginning of every session to ensure enhanced security of data.

Not surprisingly, Digit magazine adjudged Wings Accounting as The Best Accounting Software 2004, ahead of Tally, in a competitive review of all accounting software products in its July 2004 issue.

^*The above is a bona fide comparison done based on available information. E&OE.