QuickBooks 2001

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Summary: You'll be Buying this Product Over and Over
Review: Here's the deal with Quickbooks if you have any employees and a payroll. Buy and install the the latest version, then you have to shell out (more) bucks a year (even if you have just one employee) to keep your tax tables updated. This tax table service used to cost just $($$$); you are at their mercy if you want to run with the latest tax tables. Now it is 2-3 years down the road and you get a message saying that you need to upgrade your entire Quickbooks package because tax tables will not be produced for your version after a certain date. Round and round the cycle goes....I think I have spent over $1000 in the past 6 years on Quickbooks versions and tax table updates. There is certainly a market out there for some sharp programmers to produce less expensive tax table updates for prior versions of Quickbooks. Be warned....Intuit makes Microsoft look good!!

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Summary: Waste of money and HUGE frustration
Review: I agree with the majority of the other reviews listed here. This software is an enormous frustration. "Upgrading" from Quicken Deluxe to Quickbooks was actually several steps backward. If you use Quickbooks now you'd do better to "downgrade" to Quicken or just find another accounting package (or take the time to learn MS Excel - which can do anything Quicken and Quickbooks can do better if you're patient enough for the learning curve).

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Summary: Great Product, Costumer support terrible!!!
Review: I have been a Quicken user since 1992 and have used it for my personal finances. When I started my small business, I knew that Quickbooks was the way to go. I was right! It was easy to install and easy to follow. I was able to enter in my first customer with ease. I highly recommend Quickbooks.

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Summary: Love the product, Hate the support!
Review: I have to agree with the last review. It's a great product but forget the support! Because of the fact that Quickbooks will no longer support the Mac I went out and bought VPC a Windows emulater program so I could continue to use and update Quickbooks Pro for my business. I had to call the support line because I was having trouble getting the update for my payroll. To continue using the payroll with the right tax table I had to have the update.So I agreed to giving my credit card number to get help from the Quickbooks support only to be told $40.00 later that Intuit does not support VPC and that they couldn't help me!! I wasn't to happy that I paid forty dollars to be told I was simply out of luck, So I wrote to customer service, I never did get a reply. : -/

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Summary: Try fact 2000 pro Belgium cheap,easy euroincluded andsoon
Review: I previously used quickbooks, untill the euro came, and quickbooks had no answer for me. I don't like also software asking for money after a buy already . Disappointed is the good word that i like to include this software after several years good cooperation still. Few interactions in customer- info findings, item deviding, and not easy mastering sorry intuit you lost a thankfull customer years to go maybe with some cooperation Dr Jansen Veterinary surgeon Belgium

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Summary: Try fact 2000 pro Belgium cheap,easy euroincluded andsoon
Review: I previously used quickbooks, untill the euro came, and quickbooks had no answer for me. I don't like also software asking for money after a buy already . Disappointed is the good word that i like to include this software after several years good cooperation still. Few interactions in customer- info findings, item deviding, and not easy mastering sorry intuit you lost a thankfull customer years to go maybe with some cooperation Dr Jansen Veterinary surgeon Belgium

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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: If you own a small business this product is a rip off. Previous versions of this included tax table up dates for one year but this one does not. Although it promises you updates on the outside of the box, once you open the box you find that you only get 3 months. Once you open the box, you can't return the software. This is deliberatly deceptive on their part. Then you have to pay an additional amount per year for this service. I feel like I've been cheated. Don't make the same mistake.

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Summary: You'll be Buying this Product Over and Over
Review: Quickbooks is an easy program to learn. Tech. support can answer questions that any one can find the answers in the help menu. Quickbooks cannot track workman's comp, itemize payroll garnishments (if 2 or more employees are garnished from the same agency). Data will loose integrity if your file is too big or running a network. When I upgraded from QB99 to QB2001, I had to get my payroll updated online(with a subscription). I pay enough money to keep my business running, I don't like having to shell out extra's that I believe should come with the $(dollar amount) per computer for the program. I also feel that there must be something a lot better than this program for the construction/contractor business. I am definately not upgrading. I have had many thoughts of using this CD for drink coasters in my living room. Do some research before buying this product.

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Summary: Quick Books Stinks
Review: Quickbooks is an easy program to learn. Tech. support can answer questions that any one can find the answers in the help menu. Quickbooks cannot track workman's comp, itemize payroll garnishments (if 2 or more employees are garnished from the same agency). Data will loose integrity if your file is too big or running a network. When I upgraded from QB99 to QB2001, I had to get my payroll updated online(with a subscription). I pay enough money to keep my business running, I don't like having to shell out extra's that I believe should come with the $(dollar amount) per computer for the program. I also feel that there must be something a lot better than this program for the construction/contractor business. I am definately not upgrading. I have had many thoughts of using this CD for drink coasters in my living room. Do some research before buying this product.

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Summary: Mostly as good as the old Quickbooks, but...
Review: The good news is that all the functionality of the old QuickBooks I had learned to use several years ago is still there. It is a bit askew from what a traditional green-eyeshade-wearing accountant would expect to see, but still recognizable as a full-featured accounting package sufficient for any small and many medium sized businesses.

The bad news is that the new QuickBooks attempts to dumb down the accounting process with a web-style interface that uses Internet Explorer as the front end. There are some good features to this, but it just can't substitute for actually learning bookkeeping, and it mightily obscures the process, making it more, not less, difficult. Sure enough, I can't get payroll to work without subscribing to the monthly tax update. Forget it, Intuit, I'm not biting. One last thing: I would respectfully suggest to Intuit and similar vendors that I do not appreciate having relentless, merciless, motherless, Satan-spawned marketing bastards shoving stuff in my face via software for which I have laid out hard-earned cash.

So: It's still a pretty good accounting package, a bit overpriced, with too much front end razzle-dazzle, and too much input from marketing. I would have given the old version 3.0 four stars. This one gets two.