Exchequer has served thousands of SMEs well. Advanced has officially moved Exchequer to extended support, which means development has stopped. No new features, no cloud functionality, no roadmap. Just maintenance patches for as long as that arrangement holds. Meanwhile, the ERP landscape is evolving faster than at any point in the last decade, with cloud-native platforms pulling further ahead every month as the strongest Exchequer ERP alternative. The SMEs asking themselves w

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