Now you can run both APSW Budget Planner V3 Pro and APSW Budget Planner V4 Enterprise using the same budget plans.

V3 Pro and V4 Enterprise are separate programs. V3 Pro is a multi-functional static budget planner designed for you to track and plan your regular incomings and outgoings. V4 Enterprise is not only a budget planner for static or regular incomings and outgoings, but also an 'actual' or 'real-time' budget planner. This new budgeting system encompasses all your known budgeting items as well as those budget items you don't plan for or are not paid on a regular basis.

Many people have varied tastes in budget planners and both programs are suited to individual needs, but what we've designed is a utility that will convert your V3 Pro budget plans to the V4 Enterprise format without interferring with your V3 Pro data.

Simply put, this utility allows you to import V3 plans and data to V4 Enterprise. Why? Because we wanted you to have a choice. Chances are, you are probably very happy with V3 Pro and all its functionality but you'd still like to try out V4 Enterprise but don't want to start again with your budget plans - adding, editing, creating categories etc. 'APSW V3 Pro to V4 Convertor'© does all the work for you.

Download this free utility

Look at the screenshots below to get an idea of what it looks like.

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Here's how it works:
1. When you start the program all three columns look almost the same. (picture 1)
2. Double click on the drive containing your APSW folder. This will nearly always be in C: Drive under Program Files/APSW.
3. Once you have located the APSW program folder, expand it to display the BPV3 (or whatever you called V3 Pro folder).
4. Expand that folder to display the contents of the folder. The budget plans and data contained in the V3 folder will then be displayed in the middle column. (see picture 2)
5. For each budget plan you have, the names will be different but there will be six or more files with the same name
(eg. tish1.(extension name) see picture 2)
6. Highlight all the plans with the same name (eg. all files with the name 'tish1' have been highlighted in picture 2)
7. Now you need to give these files a plan name for V4 Enterprise. You can, if you choose, name the plan the same as whats in your V3 folder. But, if you already have saved plans in V4 Enterprise, be sure to name the converted plan to something other than whats already named in your V4 Enterprise folder.
For example: I have a plan name in V3 called 'Tish1' and I want to convert this plan to V4 format but in the V4 folder I also have a plan called 'Tish1'. I need to rename the plan I want to convert to something different so as not to overwrite my existing plan in V4 Enterprise. I would name it something like 'V4 output'.
8. See picture 2. I have named the new plan 'V4 output' and created a new folder in the APSW - BPV4 folder called V3toV4. As long as the folder is in the program files/APSW/BPV4 folder you can name it anything you wish to identify its the converted plan.
9. Click on 'Convert' in the program. Almost instantly you will see a popup that confirms all files have been converted.
10.Simply start up your V4 Enterprise - choose 'File Open' and find your newly converted folder. Expand this folder and you will see a file with a .SAV extension - this is your converted plan.

You can, if you wish, save these files to any location on your hard drive. Saving them to the Program Files/APSW/BPV4 folder is simply an example, although it is the most practical location for the newly converted budget plan.