Re: The ugly side of business - long



<nailshooter41@xxxxxxx> wrote

So... does anyone have any insight into these two, or experiences with
just one? Something based on personal experience?

Have/still have a number of business interests that fit your DIY style.

Mostly used QuickBooks until about two years ago. Intuit are opportunistic
bastards as far as I'm concerned.

The last straw was when I was _forced_ to upgrade or lose online access to
accounts ... we're talking about being forced to buy a new version at almost
full retail price. The latest versions won't even run on two of my machines
using Win2K ... IOW, if I want to run the latest version, I would also be
forced to upgrade two office computers, which still do the intended job for
everything else.

All the above notwithstanding, if I had to pick between QB and PT, it would
be QB hands down, particularly if you don't need to access your accounts
online and can live with just using QB as a ledger system and for reports.

IOW, I still use QB, for one company only, being familiar with it from years
of use and data for that particular enterprise, but will never, ever give
Intuit the satisfaction of buying an upgrade.

As for PT ... watched SWMBO struggle with it in her non-profit, which
grosses in the six figures, and I gave up trying to help her with it years
ago. Her accountant finally switched her over to QB a couple of years ago
and she has not asked me for help since, so it must be agreeing with her.

IMNHO, QuickBooks is much easier, and most importantly, takes much less of
your time than PT, and is the lesser of two evils, as much as I hate to say
it.


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