Australian businesses have run a wide range of accounting software over the past 30 years — many of which are now discontinued, unsupported, or simply impossible to run on modern hardware. The data inside those systems is often legally required, always valuable, and frequently trapped.

The legacy accounting problem

Accounting data has a long shelf life. Financial records, payroll history, transaction logs, and tax information need to be accessible for years — sometimes decades — after the software that created them has been abandoned.

The platforms that create these problems include:

• AccountEdge — discontinued by Acclivity
• Attaché — used by many mid-sized Australian businesses, increasingly difficult to support
• Quicken (business versions) — long discontinued for business use in Australia
• MYOB (older versions) — format changes across major versions create migration gaps
• Reckon Accounts (formerly QuickBooks) — older versions with proprietary data formats
• Custom accounting systems built on Access, FoxPro, or VB6 by now-unavailable developers
• Industry-specific billing systems built for legal, medical, or trade businesses

What I do

• Data recovery from discontinued accounting software formats
• Transaction history extraction — every invoice, payment, and journal entry
• Payroll record recovery — employee records, payment history, super contributions
• Chart of accounts and balance migration for handover to new software
• Structured export ready for import into Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, or your chosen platform
• Archival of historical data in accessible, non-proprietary formats

What I need

• The accounting data files (whatever format they’re in)
• The name and version of the accounting software
• A description of what data is most important to recover

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