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QuickBooks Pro 2010
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- QuickBooks Pro 2010 helps you easily organize and maintain your business finances, all in one place
- Quickly access key customer, vendor & employee information in a single location
- Instantly create invoices, track payments and manage expenses
- Save time and money by tracking every dollar going in and out of your business
- Get insight into your business with access to over 100 reports
Amazon. com Product DescriptionThe most popular version of America’s #1 small business financial software helps make your business more profitable. New features show you exactly where your business stands and saves you time to focus on your business: organize your finances all in one place; manage and customer, vendor, and employee data; save money-track every dollar in and out; know where your business stands with real-time reports. Easily print checks, pay bills & track . . . More >>
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March 16, 2010 -
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Amazon shows a 30 MB download. The download I got was 466. 60 MB! I would never had downloaded the 466. 6 MB file had I realized it was this big. Boo. . . .
Rating: 1 / 5
Do not buy this product for use with Microsoft Vista. I spent hours with support and my problems never resolved. After 5 hours they told me to buy Windows 7. I purchased 7 today, and QB loads perfectly.
Rating: 1 / 5
Wow. I should have listened to the previous reviewers. This software is garbage.
Quickbooks is not intuitive, it purposefully cripples its software to make more money, it not designed with the client in mind (it is designed with shareholders in mind). If Quickbooks didn’t have the brand it does, it would fail miserably. But since everyone is told that Quickbooks is the way to go, and they do exactly what I did and buy it, Intuit can keep churning out garbage and laughing all the way to the bank.
Alright, time for specifics. The main thing that I wanted was the ability to import my transactions from my financial institution’s online services. I checked with a sales rep who said that it was easy, I also checked with Quickbooks online list of financial institutions that support Quickbooks. Mine was there. So I bought it. Turns out that I can’t automatically download my transactions because Quickbooks requires financial institutions to pay them loads of money to be able to do that. So then I realized that I could download my transactions and then import them into Quickbooks. Nope. Again, financial institutions have to pay them money to be able to export a text QBO file. So I can export all of my transactions to OFX, QBX, QIF and CSV formats, but Quickbooks won’t accept any of those (even though 2 of the formats are Intuit formats) because they want to force financial institutions to pay them money. I’m a programmer, building support for these file formats would be easy compared to all the other programming they do.
If you want to buy this software, make sure that you financial institution has coughed up the dough to Intuit so that they may have the pleasure of exporting transactions in a QBO format. Oh yea, QBO is a TEXT document. Nothing fancy, you can open it in Notepad and see all of your transactions.
Their customer support is a joke. I haven’t yet been able to get a hold of them to request a refund for this piece of trash.
Do yourself a favor and get something else. These guys suck.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you buy a download from here, you’re stuck with it if it doesn’t work.
If you get it from Intuit’s site, you should get a 60-day money-back guarantee with 30 days free technical support.
You’ll probably need both!
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit system. Quickbooks Pro 2010 is advertised as “fully compatible” with Windows 7. Well. . . perhaps not:
Quickbooks Pro 2010 installed ok, but when I began testing it I found that it was causing ole32. dll to fault in Event Viewer when you exit the program. This causes a crash dump file to be written each time. Then, when I tried to have Quickbooks update itself, the process crashed with a error 15106, “The update program can not be opened”. I then got a message about a corrupted update file.
Following Intuit’s support website’s advice, I uninstalled and reinstalled Quickbooks but the same thing recurred. I next tried to repair the app, but the same series of errors occurred. Finally, I called Quickbooks support. While they were friendly and trying to be helpful, they could not solve the problem, and offered release 1 (R1) to me to work around the update issue – just don’t try the update function. I would also be getting back all of the bugs that have been fixed from R1 to current, R5P. When I asked when this problem would be solved, he said that he really didn’t know.
He also tried to tell me that the faulting module ole32. dll was “normal” and he “sees it all the time” and it won’t hurt anything. This I don’t believe.
I’m going to try to get my money back, citing their published 60-day unconditional guarantee.
Rating: 1 / 5
This evening I downloaded, installed and registered QB Pro 2010. The installation process converted my QB 2003 company file to the newest version. All of this took less than 30 minutes (via Comcast high speed internet). No problems whatsoever on a Windows 7 laptop. Overall, a great experience. As for my opinion of the new version of QB, the first impression is a favorable one.
Rating: 5 / 5