Peachtree Complete Accounting 2005

Rating:
Summary: I would not purchase this product again!!
Review: I am currently using Peachtree Premium accounting 2005 and would NEVER recommend that anyone use this software.

First, the software is full of bugs. For example, our accounts receivable aging is constantly becoming out of balance with our general ledger. This is clearly a system issue. Peachtree / Best Software has built an "integrity check" which is their system for fixing the database. I have been forced to run this integrity check, which takes approximately 2 hours to complete, 4 times this month. I check our A/R balance again today, and it is again out of balance. This will be the 5th time this month I've been forced to take my staff off line (no one can use the system while this integrity check is running), with no real resolution in sight.

I've just completed the integrity check and it found 88 database errors to correct. That is just in the past 5 days.

Second, the system is extremely slow over the network. Our internal network is very stable and rarely has issues with any other network activity. Peachtree is by far the slowest running program on our network.

Third, the system regularly freezes and crashes. When the program freezes or crashes, it requires the user to reboot. Often times, the user will be locked out of the system, because Peachtree thinks that there is still a user there. Eventually, the solution is to reboot the server where the network database resides. Again, this requires all users to stop using the system and to wait for the network system to come back up again.

resolving issues. Typically, their solution is to say that it is a problem with the way we are doing things here, when in fact we are following advice they have given us in the past.

I cannot UNrecommend this product more.

Rating:
Summary: Tricked
Review: Ordered Peachtree 2005 Complete accounting and received a replacement disk that you can't register therefor the product is useless. There was nothing in the ad that stated this was a replacemnet disk. False advertisement on their part I do believe. I would not suggest buying from this company.

Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but there are better alternatives
Review: Peachtree is ok, but I do not recommend it for several reasons:
1. It has a very old interface. Make you tired and bored after a while!
2. Very complex. For example, you have to type 10.00, instead of just 10!
3. Old technology: Now we are in 2005 not in 1990!

And other thing I did not like.

I would personally recommend Small Business Manager (SBM) from Microsoft http://www.microosft.com or another alternative and less expensive is Quick Business Manager (QBM) from Business Aim http://www.bisaim.com. There other software I could recommend but it seems that these two are really using great technologies such as Microsoft .Net and SQL Server. Good Luck.


Rating:
Summary: There are better software out there!
Review: Please look around and be more futuristic.
Peachtree has lots of unfixed bugs and is out dated. I tested some software and found some really good, with reasonable price: BusinessWorks, Small Business Manager (microsoft.com), Quick Business Manager (bisaim.com),Vision Point 2000 (ACCPAC), BusinessVision 32 (Softline).

Good Luck in your search.

Rating:
Summary: Hard Har Har, Very complex!
Review: We are not in an industrial age any more! We want better software, much easier to use, and better interface. Why Peachtree is that hard? Remember DOS? How hard it was when Windows came about? Now peachtree is like that if you have used better software: Old tech.