Review by Ammy_Evaluator

I have been a user of QuickBooks since QB 2007. I actually purchased QB 2009, with the intent of upgrading last year, but was scared away by a number of user complaints (both in reviews and in user forums). As a result, my first real upgrade was to QB 2010.

To be clear, I am not a QB power user - I don’t use QB Payroll, I don’t accept credit cards, I don’t carry a product inventory, and I prefer to balance my books manually without relying on the automatic transaction download features of QB.

In other words, I tend to use it primarily for book keeping during the course of the year. The bulk of my work centers around a very simple list of items, and around the entry and payment of bills, creation of invoices, receipt of payments, and deposits into my company account. I reconcile my books every month, and rely on my accountant to manage the year end processing.

About 4 months ago, I decided to finally bite the bullet and upgrade to QB 2010. This was in the middle of my year end processing for 2009 so I was hoping that I wouldn’t run into any serious issues. I was absolutely thrilled to find that the upgrade of my company file from QB 2007 to QB 2010 went without incident, and I’ve been successfully using it for a while now.

The new features introduced between 2007 and 2010 are actually quite significant. I’ve tabulated these below, in the order of their usefulness to me:n> Favorites (nice to keep all my favorite tools ready at hand)n> Attach documents (I’m a big believer in electronic records)n> Professional look for invoices, etc. (no more bland invoices)n> Company snapshot (nice one stop shop)n> Report carousel (really cool effect)n> Accountant’s copy using Intuit’s FTP servernnOverall, QB 2010, under Windows 7 32-bit, has been as stable as 2007 for my needs. I have not experienced a single crash, and even auto update has been rather error free.

This software works well for my needs and I have not regretted upgrading.

Happy Book keeping!