Review by 12XU

There may be some people out there that don’t like QuickBooks, but I’m not one of them. Perhaps because my needs aren’t as robust, but I don’t experience any of the problems I’ve read about.

One thing off the bat: the QB methodology is way more intuitive to non-accounts than any other program I’ve used, which for me is a good thing: I’m not an accountant. Invoices, purchase orders, credits, payments etc are all easily entered and, more importantly, modified if need-be. I remember using a more traditionally set-up accounting program in the past and some of those operations were almost impossible to figure out (though as I said, for real accountants those programs may be more intuitive, and QB more frustrating).

Frankly, I haven’t run into any problems that I couldn’t figure out myself, and I’ve been able to get the program up and running exactly as I want it to run, quickly and easily. Any errors I’ve run into at all were quickly rectified by doing a database rebuild, so I’ve been quite happy. Add to that the utter confusion I experienced using competing products and there’s nothing out there that I’d rather use.

It may not be the be-all and end-all if you’re an accountant, but I’ve yet to find anything that I want to do with it that I can’t, and it’s done everything I’ve asked without a hiccup. Considering what I used to pay my accountants in New York every month, this is a total winner.