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• Intuit QuickBooks Pro 2008 (Full Product)

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  $74.95 - $495.0
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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: COsmbusiness

  Updated:08-07-09

  Duration of ownership:1 Years

  Strengths: Everything is in the same place

  Weaknesses: It is hard to figure out, the Quickbooks customer service is horrible, and it doesn't do anything I couldn't do with a spreadsheet and an automated form.

  Overall Evaluation: This product doesn't do anything I couldn't do with a spreadsheet and an automated form. Any time I bought something I had to create a new vendor, even though I'd never use that vendor again. Keeping the product working requires a phone call to register it and get codes. On that call, the operator signed me up for a "free" trial. The free part of the trial lasted a month less than they said it would, then they started charging me, even though I never used the service. On my bank statements, there was no identifying information. I called Quickbooks Customer Service and they said they had not charged me. I had to contest the charges with my bank to figure out who was charging me. My PC has since crashed and I cannot access my Quickbooks information without re-buying the program for the MAC platform. As a small business, I will never use this software or work with this company again and recommend other small businesses choose another software program.

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  4 Star Review

  Reviewed by: motch6

  Updated:03-05-09

  Duration of ownership:90 Days

  Strengths: Simple interface, Pro has some great tools especially sending e-mails using Outlook now and sending invoices in .pdf format.

  Weaknesses: Slow at start up - doesn't matter how small your file is. Database manager doesn't seem to work correctly in Vista.

  Overall Evaluation: People that have complained about the VISTA problems must have had the product before the updates. I'm using both 2007 pro and 2008 pro on VISTA Ultimate with out problems! 2008 pro is a great alternative to 2009 pro as Intuit is still trying to fix 2009 version! It is so bad that they have dropped their prices for the 2009 version to below $100 at most places. Makes it hard to find 2008 version for cheap... if you can find it!

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  3 Star Review

  Reviewed by: jtcjoseph

  Updated:01-06-09

  Duration of ownership:12 Years

  Strengths: no problems with XP

  Weaknesses: Problems with Vista

  Overall Evaluation: I am having sharing problems --we are always in multi user mode and since I switched to Vista about 2 months ago -- QB keeps asking me to switch to multi user mode while trying to log in when another employee is working in QB and it is in multi user mode -- not sure what to do any thoughts. When I was running XP -- I had no issues

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  2 Star Review

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  Updated:09-05-08

  Duration of ownership:2 Years

  Strengths: Relatively easy to learn, and easy to use for basic accounting and reporting.

  Weaknesses: Multiple problems running QB in Windows Vista; the problems are worse under Vista 64-bit. QB has a built-in PDF creator that causes printing problems and application failures.

  Overall Evaluation: QB is advertised as a Vista ready product; this is a bit of a stretch. I suggest reading the user forums. As noted simply trying to print a report can cause QB to crash. You need to use Task Manager to kill the application. Intuit provided a "fix." However certain step must be repeat each time QB is used (deleting the QB PDF creator from the printer list.) It has a decent range of standard reports that can be tweaked (time periods, accounts, clients, etc.). Creating custom reports is not trivial which is why there are so many firms providing QB help (much more expensive than the software). The file import functions supports .iif files (Intuit Import File). These are essential tab delimited file provided by some banks. The iif files are unable to recognize existing vendors, and other key information. Expect to spend time cleaning up data after an .iif import. I've been using QB since 2003; this is the most unstable version. Maybe the problems are Vista related, but it has been a couple of years since Vista hit the market. Intuit really doesn't have any excuse for not working well on Vista 32-bit or the increasingly popular 64-bit.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: DarleneCohen

  Updated:07-22-08

  Duration of ownership:1 Months

  Strengths: VERY EASY TRANSITION FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONQUICK INSTALL

  Weaknesses: TOO MANY INTERRUPTIONS/POPUP WINDOWS OFFERING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON OTHER PRODUCTS/SERVICES.

  Overall Evaluation: I USE QUICKBOOKS PRO TO MANAGE THE FINANCES OF SEVERAL CLIENTS. FOR SMALL COMPANIES, THE DESKTOP VERSION IS MUCH MORE COST EFFECTIVE THAN USING QUICKBOOKS ONLINE, ESPECIALLY IF THERE ARE MULTIPLE ENTITIES INVOLVED.

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  4 Star Review

  Reviewed by: MishaKachina

  Updated:07-18-08

  Duration of ownership:1

  Strengths: ease in following flow charts, entering sales and purchases, and tracking cash flow

  Weaknesses: Slow to load up. Apparently companies created in or upgraded to Pro 2008 cannot be viewed by early versions of QuickBooks.

  Overall Evaluation: I was trained on QuickBooks Pro 2006. QuickBooks Pro 2008 is very similar. It really has a nice tutorial. The Startup and Quick Reference Guide I found very helpful as it contains info on installation, Setup, Key Concepts, Essential Tasks, and New Features. Each section in the little book are easy to find since each section has its own color tab. In the Essentials Tasks chapter, it has sections that cover: Setting Up Your Business, Money In, Money Out, Managing Your Business. At the end there also is a Frequently Asked Questions section and Index.

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  3 Star Review

  Reviewed by: zhuchok

  Updated:07-17-08

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: De facto standard accounting software

  Weaknesses: * Price* The old glitches and functionality limitations seem to migrate from one version to another without ever being fixed.

  Overall Evaluation: I purchased this software after my academic version of QuickBooks Pro 2007 ran out of 3 allotted activations. The very "gotcha" practice of selling the software that relies on activations without clearly stating the number of activations allowed right on the box is unethical, but with competitors consistently delivering immature products, Intuit seems to get away with its inferior business practices. The same is true for the company's support and product upgrade philosophy. I wonder how long this business model will work. This is an OK product, but if you are using version 2007 or 2006, do not bother spending money for an upgrade, unless you too were unfortunate enough to exceed your activation count.

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  3 Star Review

  Reviewed by: ctesti

  Updated:06-23-08

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  Strengths: powerful tool, lots of features.

  Weaknesses: not always intuitive to use, not the best user interface.

  Overall Evaluation: Quickbooks has a lot of features for my business, and I will not use most of them. I am not an accountant but I needed Quickbooks for my small business. I had to read a couple of tutorials before I could start using this powerful tool.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: fchang777

  Updated:05-29-08

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  Strengths: Comprehensive bookkeeping

  Weaknesses: None so far

  Overall Evaluation: Once you get the hang of how Quickbooks works it's really easy to use and great for your business. It makes life a lot simpler and allows you to do a lot within the program. The main drawback is it is a memory hog, but that's about it.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: AndreK66

  Updated:05-14-08

  Duration of ownership:7 Days

  Strengths: Has a powerful Graphical User Interface that allows easy and quick access to various parts of the application.

  Weaknesses: I haven't found any weakneses.

  Overall Evaluation: I have used an older version of Quickbooks, maybe 2004 and when I tried 2008, it looks completely different. They did a great job with making it easy to access everything without much difficulty finding it.

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Intuit QuickBooks Pro 2008 (Full Product)

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