QuickBooks Pro 2008 [OLD VERSION]

They really raised the bar on this version. It is a lot easier to use and it makes more sense. It is much easier to add new employees and do payroll. Very nicely done.

I have been a Quick Books user for many years and the 2005 version suited all my needs, but then Intuit informed me it would no longer support business e mails with this version and as most of my estimating and billing is done this way I was forced to upgrade.
I do not like the layout of the upgrade, nor the fact that I cannot back up onto a floppy disc, I have customized it as best I can, but I much preferred the 2005 version.

I have used Quickbooks for over 12 years. This has got to be the worst version to date. I've learned to live with constant popups wanting you to buy Intuit services. My latest version was 2005. In December of last year I installed an auto update and it blew up Quickbooks. Everytime it would start it would try to do an install I would get an error (1602 or 17xx). If I kept canceling on the errors Quickbooks would finally start. I called Tech support and worked with them for over 4 hours. I was finally able resolve the issue by uninstalling, deleting some registry keys, deleting a couple of folders on the 'C' drive, downloading the latest update and doing a manual update.

The problem went away until the next auto update and it broke the program again. I called tech support again and they suggested I upgrade to 2008. Since support for 2005 was about to expire I purchased the upgrade. Everything went along fine during the install and update to the last release. Well I just got my 1st auto update and guess what it broke the program again. Now every time I try to run the program I have to go through an install process which takes ten minutes or longer. Once it completes the program works fine but I have go through the install process every time I start the program.

I use the program to track church expenses and budgets and quickbooks is a cost effective solution for this but I'm getting to the point where the aggravation just isn't worth it. Well back to tech support!!!

The software is ok and isn't too terrible to figure out, but getting through customer service is a nightmare. Just to install and verify the software, you have to call in and have a cs representative hassle you about which version you are using and try to sell you services you don't need. I am going to try Microsoft Office Accounting.

this product is suppose to make your life simple, but in fact it makes you so complicated and you have to waste hours and days to figure out how to run this program, they have there weird way of programing and accounting how they feel necessary which in fact makes thing complicated and confusing,they don't recognize pay pal or Google checkout so you can't track your sales if you use those company's, in a nut shell this program sucks, and the worst part is that quick books charges $49.00 for 1 support phone call,