Pastel Partner and Pastel Express
Move your chart of accounts, customers, suppliers, opening balances and open items from Pastel Partner or Pastel Express into Accounter with an assisted conversion, checked against your own reports.
Who it is for
South African businesses and their accountants running Pastel Partner or Pastel Express on a desktop or office server who want to move the books to the cloud without re-capturing everything by hand.
An assisted conversion brings across the records you need to keep trading from day one in Accounter.
If your financial year ends in February, converting then means the new year starts in Accounter and the old year closes in Pastel. Plan the move before you commit to another year of desktop licence and support.
Decision support
Step by step
An assisted conversion from Pastel Partner or Pastel Express to Accounter, from choosing a cut-over date to going live.
Pick the date your books move. A financial year-end, often the end of February, or the start of a VAT period keeps the opening position simple.
Capture all transactions up to the cut-over date, reconcile the bank accounts and finalise the period so the balances will not change.
Export or print the account listing, customer list, supplier list, trial balance and customer and supplier age analysis as at the cut-over date.
Our team maps your chart of accounts to Accounter and loads your customers, suppliers, opening balances and open items.
Compare the Accounter opening trial balance and age analysis with your Pastel reports. Your accountant can review them before you approve.
Capture new transactions in Accounter from the cut-over date and keep your final Pastel reports as the archive of earlier years.
Done with you
Our team maps your Pastel exports into Accounter and loads them for you. You review the result against your own reports and sign it off before you start capturing. It is a people-led service, not an automated file converter.
Tools and next steps
Compare the features and costs, or try a tool for the bookkeeping task you need to finish today.
No. It is an assisted conversion: you export standard reports from Pastel, our team maps and loads them into Accounter, and you check the result against your Pastel reports before going live. Accounter does not open or sync with Pastel company files.
Your chart of accounts, customers, suppliers, opening balances from the trial balance at your cut-over date, and open items (unpaid customer and supplier invoices).
Not by default. Keep your final Pastel reports, such as the trial balance, general ledger and age analysis, as your archive for SARS and audit purposes, and start capturing new transactions in Accounter from the cut-over date.
Yes. The conversion works from reports that both products can produce: the account listing, customer and supplier lists, trial balance and age analysis.
Many South African companies have a February year-end, and the tax year runs 1 March 2026 to 28 February 2027. Converting at year-end lets you close the old year in your current system and start the new year in Accounter with clean opening balances. If that is not practical, the start of a VAT period is the next best cut-over date.
The assisted conversion is quoted per company once we have seen your exported reports, because the work depends on the size of your chart of accounts and the number of open items. Accounter accounting plans start at R300/month.
Reviewed and sourced
Last reviewed 2026-07-18. Tax and VAT references use official SARS sources where applicable.