QuickBooks Pro 2005

My accountant said I should use quickbooks for my business. It turned out to be a very bad choice because the software does the manual tasks of paying bills etc. but gives you little useful information. I have a service business in a very competitive market and I could not get critical information that I needed to run my business. I had to go to the accountant and his staff to get the business information required to stay competitive. In the final analysis, I quess this is why the accountant recommended the product.

Made my life easier. Thanks

Seller was very prompt. Item was exactly as described. I even e-mailed him to have the item shipped sooner and he e-mailed me back in the same day and upgraded shipping at no cost to me. He was very accomodating.

Very user friendly, helpful to a small business. Guided step-by-step to get started. Than there are many other uses once it is initially set up. Great investment for the money.

Nice accounting package, always bugging me about upgrading though.

I purchased Quick Books for a new business and have found it to be easy to use and helpful to track payables and receipts. Amazon service was very good.

The item whas worked well. I was a little bit confused about the mail-in-rebate. It stated that I needed to have owned a previous version to get the rebate. The product is great though.

Purchased this software because I got a deal with a special price break. I have a very small business, so a purchase of several hundred dollars needs to pay back quickly. The set up took a lot longer than I had anticipated. The customer service was no help - couldnt answer my questions. I ended up spending 6 hours to get everything right - another day wasted. Ive got myself stuck with this now and will use for a few months since Ive spent the money, but Im going to look for alternatives in the meantime. If this is Quick Books, I need to find Lightning Fast Books somewhere.

Nutshell: Intuit and a company called Best Software are the only two firms producing small-business accounting software. Because of this, theyve split the market between them and are now engaging in monopolistic gouging. Each year, the price goes up. Each year, the service goes down. This will persist until an alternative appears. If you are considering making small-business accounting software, do it! Youll find lots of customers ready to switch. But back to Quickbooks: you have to upgrade every other year at a minimum - Intuit turns your software *off*. You have to buy a service contract to make it function - the list price above is NOT what youll end up paying. So if you buy this, understand that youre entering an endless upgrade cycle with no way to escape, and a company that can turn off your software, remotely, at any time, with no refunds. Enjoy!

...I just installed quickbooks 2005, and have attempted to transfer my Quicken 2003 to Quickbooks 2005. The transfer will not copy beyond March 7, 2005. I called Customer Service and waited in excess of 20 minutes the first two times, only to be cut off...the third time I spoke to a rep after 17 minutes who told me I would need to purchase support for this problem....I think not! I may have wasted $229, but I will not waste any more money, or time with the so-called customer service. More like customer rip-off!