Intuit Quickbooks Pro 2013

Pros: Quickbooks Pro has worked fine for me over the past several years.

Cons: You have to buy a new version every two years if you want to keep downloading and reconciling your bank data.

Other Thoughts: Newegg's bait and switch tactics really make me mad. I tried to order the downloadable version of this on their 48 hour sale, and was told it will be available soon and they will send me a message when it can be purchased and downloaded. It was $119.95. When I got the message that it was available, I put it into my cart right away, and lo and behold it is $199.95. I called customer service and was told their prices are subject to change. That was a pretty quick change

Pros: NONE

Cons: Just a repackaged version of their 2011 version except this version is filled with many links to add on apps for a fee. The links can not be hidden and take up valuable screen space.

Other Thoughts: Intuit has become too big for their britches. Their products have become secondary to their sales pitches. They are just about the only one in the market and they know it and take addvantage of it. I had their 2011 but re-installed the older 2001 and am actually much happier. A cleaner better product.

Pros: Company file converted well.

Cons: I had Quickbooks Premier 2003, upgraded to Pro 2013. Company file converted fine so far, but when Friday am came around, I was shocked to realize that I have to pay an additional $20-$30 PER MONTH to create paychecks for my employees. I understood in the description that I could pay my employees (without an additional fee.)

Pros: QuickBooks Pro 2013. Very Chip $150.00

Cons: Nothing at this time.

Pros: There Are No Pros - Period!

Cons: I wouldn’t recommend this pathetic software to my worst enemy.
My client bought this software package and couldn’t get it to work Properly, so he paid me to install it on his new Windows 8 system; What A Mistake.
2 days later, three re-installs script errors, data importing Problems, errors I have never heard of, etc. etc.
This will be the last time I install this miserable software package on any of my
Customer’s systems.

Other Thoughts: I sent an email to about half a dozen of my clients, advising them not to waste their time or money, and that I will not be helping them in any way with issues that arise with this application!

Pros: Many options

Cons: This is an add -on to my other review, as I made a mistake in the tech knowledge and I would like to add that this is not a very intuitive or easy piece of software to use. E-mail is hard to set up, and I spent many hours trying to get this software to work on two machines, which was never accomplished, so I have to use whatever puter has the company file on it, or in my case, just use my desktop, when I would like to make the system portable for sales on the road.

Pros: -Hard to deny that the software is powerful

-Support is pretty decent

Cons: -New version of Windows? You're probably incompatible again. When our company had upgraded it's computers from Windows XP to Windows Vista/7... guess what? Quickbooks didn't work. We had to buy all new licenses for every computer.

-There's a new non-backwards compatible version of Quickbooks every year

-Thus, you almost HAVE to buy all new licenses if you want to add a computer to your network after a year since a genuine copy is near impossible to obtain (and believe me I've tried).

-You've gotta shell out the big $$$ if you want to do anything advanced with Quickbooks via plug-ins. Some are well over $1000. Inventory management in particular is one that ruffles my feathers.

Other Thoughts: Honest to goodness, if we didn't have a monsterous database already, I'd be moving away from Quickbooks. I'm still considering it. It's just too expensive of a program for a small business to afford after a while.

Pros: Very complicated and very user unfriendly

Cons: Poor support, hard to operate

Pros: Robust and will work with other Intuit packages.

Cons: If your bank won't let you download QBO files and offers DirectConnect instead of WebConnect, you're in for a ride. It only imports IIF (or QBO if you get them) files for transaction history. There's a consulting company in the Intuit community help pages that'll sell you a nice converter though....

Other Thoughts: Great program, but limited by import file types.