Comments on: QuickBooks Pro 2010

By: P. Hartley

P. Hartley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:32:40 +0000

Imagine scan and attach a customer PO, or vendor Bill, etc right within QB!! It is built into QB 2010. Reduce your paper files.

Worth the price to upgrade!
Rating: 5 / 5

By: John Ashton

John Ashton — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:13:55 +0000

I have used QuickBooks for many years. Each new release adds extra features, some welcome, others not. I have lived easily enough with the passive suggestions to subscribe to QB Payroll, to buy their checks, cards and other stationary, to use their marketing services, and so on. These passive ads quietly existed in the top toolbar and on the right side of the screen. Oh, those were the days!

Now, almost every move I make in the program initiates a pop up of QB's deathly slow browser with an invitation to subscribe to this or that. Okay, I can put up with one solicitation in a newly installed version, but this continues to happen each and every time. There is no option to "Don't show me this again", as Microsoft considerately permits. This is Nagware, pure and simple. Excuse me, Intuit, I paid for this program to improve my productivity, not to have my time wasted waiting for another come-on.

Speaking of productivity, my only reason for upgrading from v2008 was to be able to attach documents to different records. What a great and long overdue idea! Except that's not what it does. Instead of attaching a file or folder, or simply linking to it, QB wants us to upload these files to their servers. Just wait 'til you see how much their storage space costs. Like I mentioned earlier, I already paid for the program...

I'm searching for a way to regress my data to be read in QB 2008. If I can do that, I'll be donating my 2010 version to the local business development non-profit - with a warning about the garbage inside. I realize that this will only be a temporary solution, since Intuit is bound to stop supporting their older programs. Therefore, I'll need to find another vendor. Know any software that does what QuickBooks should? Rating: 2 / 5

By: T. Koehler

T. Koehler — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:29:56 +0000

I think buying Quickbooks at all is a bunch of BS. They do not offer support on any new operating systems. I just bought 2009, now windows 7 just came out, and quickbooks is already showing problems that they will NOT support unless you purchase 2010. This is not the 1st time I’ve experienced this with Quickbooks. I’d recommend for anyone to find a better system now and not go back to Quickbooks, or don’t start with quickbooks for sure. I have to pay $150-$200/year to support the technology…it’s worthless. I wish I could provide a better solution, but haven’t researched it enough. My suggestion: look elsewhere!! Intuit is a money monger and not a customer driven company.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: orangekay

orangekay — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:56:50 +0000

After years of being burned by Intuit’s absolutely worthless attempts at producing Mac software, I decided to jump at the chance to try the Windows version out on their dime through Amazon’s review program. While the Windows edition does incorporate many more useful features than the Mac version ever has, it still lacks the fit-and-finish I would expect to find in a software package that’s retailing for as much as this, and the UI is just as clunky and poorly thought out as ever–if not more so.

If you have to use QuickBooks, you probably have another version already. Stick with it. Or, better yet, find another product from a vendor who actually cares about its customers enough to refrain from milking them for all they’re worth year after year after year. That horrible new logo just isn’t convincing me that anyone actually put any serious work into this.
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Beethoven's Mom

Beethoven's Mom — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:10:18 +0000

LOVE the product! lots of new features & reports! perfect for my business!
Rating: 5 / 5