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Pretty Good Stuff

2008-07-01
QuickBooks Pro 2008 is great software for both the educated accountant and the small business entreprenuer. I think one of the best ways to utilize QuickBooks is to get some training so that you can use the software to its fullest and best. I know I woud be useless without the courses I have taken to learn it. Do you teach QuickBooks? Check out www.quickbookseducator.info
Computer Accounting with QuickBooks Pro 2008 with Student Data Files & QuickBooks Trial Software

Quickbooks Pro 2008 + Vista = Dont' Do It

2008-06-24
I am VERY disappointed in this product. I cannot even get it to run correctly on a brand new Vista computer. I have installed and reinstalled it many times and gone to the Intuit website and tried just about everything listed in the tech support section. I thought I would just call and talk to tech support...nope you have to pay $49 for support for a brand new version of Quickbooks that you never even got to run! ...but they say you can send an email and someone will call you back within 30 mins. Did that several days ago and am still waiting for someone to call me back. When they do (if they do) it will probably be someone from India that I can't understand. The gall of them to put out such a bad product and then not give adequate tech support. I think Intuit is losing sight of who pays their bills. My advice....DON'T BUY QUICKBOOKS PRO 2008

Easy to purchase and quick shipping

2008-06-23
I was very pleased with the purchase. Very easy and was received faster than I expected. Thanks!

Overticked and Smarmy

2008-06-18
I upgraded from QB 2003 and am less than impressed. I have been using Quick products since quicken came out in the early '90s and this one is the worst I've seen.

They have eliminated the reverse journal button. They still don't show the debit/credit tag in the registers (and they reverse them with their increase/decrease BS). We are back to the pop-up advertising that won't go away. The user interface is a joke.

The portable file is okay but the backup restore function and file handling interface doesn't show you the path and QB will default your files to the bowels of your hard drive if you aren't careful. If you work with more than one company this can be a real pain.

All in all I think this is a product that has reached the end of it's life cycle. It is overticked, gimmicky and I will be looking for the next generation software (simple, accurate and easy to use) in the near future.

Unethical business practices - 00 Stars

2008-06-14
Intuit products have always been very poorly designed. They are convoluted and hard to navigate. Recently they removed their update program so now you have to purchase the entire product every year just to keep up with their enhancements...the only problem is that they barely enhance the product ever. They make minor superficial changes that don't really help the user. The BIGGEST problem with Quick Books is that if you don't keep buying the new version THEY SHUT OFF YOUR ABILITY TO DOWNLOAD BANK TRANSACTIONS. This is an unethical and deceiving practice since they are not even the ones providing the service (it is your bank that makes your statements available over the Internet, not Intuit). I own a small business and there is no way that we can afford to buy a new version every year. Read the fine print...and stay away from Intuit products unless you want to shell out hundreds of dollars EVERY year for a mediocre product.

New is good, but not great.

2008-07-20
I got the new version because I have a client that wants me to take over their books and she had a newer version than I did. New is always good, but it's not great. I find that there are still things that I can't do that have not been fixed since I got my first version in 2004. My main issue is that I can not issue a Credit Memo to a client without assigning it to a specific job. So, when someone does something for me, I can't apply it as a credit to all their jobs. I have to break it up and apply it individually. There is a lot of features that I don't need and, yet, they continue to offer them, just in case. Also, the home page, which seems kind of useless, won't go away. Maybe I just haven't figured it out yet. But, all in all, I can't live without it, so I'm stuck upgrading regardless of whether or not there have been any improvements...

Good Program but Unneccessary Update

2008-07-15
I am a long time user of Quick Books. I am happy with the product the way it was. I had my merchant account through Quick Books and when they decided that I needed to upgrade they no longer supported my merchant account through my older version. By not honoring their commitment, I could no longer accept credit cards but continued to be charged for the merchant service for several months. Cost me real money, lost business and customer goodwill. I was forced to purchase this update (at full rate) in order to reestablish my credit card service. Now I have to pay a fee to sign up for my merchant account. (I was probably charged a fee to close my merchant account a couple of months ago). The program is good, but nothing new that was worth $200. Not a good way to do business Intuit. I had been a longtime Turbo Tax customer but you lost me to Taxcut there as well because when I tried to go back to previous years' taxes to amend I discovered your program writes over each tax year making the older ones unretrievable. Your business practices are not customer friendly. I feel that your sunset enngineering is extortion. If you are going to force upgrades your longtime clients deserve a little break or at least innovate. New skins and some new fonts do not equal a new program.

Quick Books Review

2008-07-14
I am not computer savvy, but my husband started his own business, and we were told that Quick Books was an excellent program. A friend of ours helped me set up the program, and it is great. Just follow the arrows on invoicing, to accepting payments, to making deposits. It is easy to understand and looks very professional in the printouts. There are still lots of things to learn, but I think I can do it. It has been a GREAT help for a a small business.

HORRIBLE SET-UP

2008-07-11
Just be aware that part of the installation REQUIRES you to phone Inituit (my wait time was 15 minutes). You must then spell out your address, give your phone number, email address.

Then for the next 10 minutes the other person will try to sell you other products (in order to receive the necessary validation code to run the software, they MUST go through their entire pitch).

Finally they will give you a validation code.

Next time I'll buy Peachtree instead.

QuickBooks - Bad Communication Glitches

2008-07-07
A long time Quicken user, I purchased QuickBooks Pro 2008 from Amazon in January and tried to sync business accounts at US Bank. I continued to receive error messages. After hours on the phone with Intuit, they told me they were working on the issue and should have a fix in a few months. I waited. Meanwhile, my 30-day free tech help expired. A few months later, Intuit released a patch that was supposed to bridge the communication problem. It didn't work. When I called for support, they wanted to charge me $70/hr just to talk to me. I'd had the software for four months now, and I still couldn't use it - and they wanted to charge me more money. On the Intuit website, I saw that a fix would be available in July. So here it is in July, and Intuit still hasn't fixed the communication problem. I have ditched the QuickBooks and purchased a "Home Business" add-on for my Quicken ($39), and it works like a dream.
I'm fairly computer-savvy, but Quickbooks gave me such a headache that I would absolutely not recommend it for your business.