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Just wanted to drop by and say thank you very much. SmileWavy I started out the year using Gnucash and it has worked perfectly for what I needed.
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The monthly subscription for QB online is more than $100/month, per company.
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This situation makes me wonder.
Could larger business orgs with large scale ERP type SW be interested in leasing a portion to small business's to help their ROI on the ERP investment? Small Business would get premium business system functionality and those adapt could leverage it for growth too. |
There are no perfect accounting software solutions. Depends on how intense your needs are but if you don't need payroll you can use an older version of QB for a very long time. We did for 10 years, much to our CPAs dismay. My brother has used Peachtree for Mac and gotten good results but I preferred QB.
As I was winding down my business after 40 years and selling it off in phases I got to the point of a one man outfit from 20 employees. I found that QB mobile served me pretty well with instant quotes, invoicing, tracking expenses, and final year end tax data. I could run it off an iPad or iPhone, invoice a client after job completion and they would pay instantly while I was still at their property. As a short term solution with no interest in building my business back up, it worked well. |
Older versions of quickbooks will not work on newer computers.
Gnu Cash does everything older quickbooks did... It is all on your computer, and it is Free. |
Why would anyone willingly put their Business/I.P./Personal information online? Why do sheep and lemmings follow each other.
Has Q.B. given you a privacy contract clause as to their limitations? Has Congress ever required this basic consent of privacy be maintained by all companies? Ask why not... If not they could be selling every single bit of your personal information, online, to competitors. (FBI sez that is $250k/5yrs per incident infraction) |
Thanks, but..
I'm using the Gnu cash software that " id10t" recommended.. its free and does everything I need. |
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I guess I need to make this switch very soon, since we're in Jan. and I don't have enough entries this month to really make it too much work to rekey into a new system. I can export 2024 and before into files I can keep on my computer.
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I just got my first annual renewal email from Quickbooks and boy howdy... $1,069 for the next year. The first year they heavily discounted it and even then it was a tough pill to swallow as my business is so small, I might get a customer every couple weeks and the sale is seldom over $30.
On top of that, I had to pay my website company for security upgrades and now with all of the spammers, they need to charge me to add captcha to my contact form. Between the two companies, I will lose all my income for the year. Question for the brain trust, if I go back to my desktop version, will it still work for the accounting functions? I realize that I won’t get updates and can’t send invoices through them anymore. I’ll probably start billing through PayPal. |
I bit the bullet and paid $999.00 for the desktop version. The day the stop offering desktop, or make the price just to painful, I will find some other solution.
QuickBooks has a great position. They are very big in the CPA market, and it all folds over into the tax preparation, a filing of taxes. They have gone very vertical in the product offerings, and pretty much have the market captured. I just export the CPA version of my companies files to my CPA on our OneDrive FTP site. He downloads them, and I delete the files on OneDrive. The CPA does all the taxes, and I finally have him convinced to provide me with a thumb-drive with all the "paperwork" I need. I will not have paper to shred. My CPA keeps a version, and I store them on my computer, and those files are backed up to my RAID and my iPhone. One big thing for me is to get the "bankfeed" where I can download all the activity of each account right into QuickBooks. |
They are big in tax firms BUT for bookkeeping ONLY. the vertical integration is largely useless bull**** they tell businesses hoping to push them into it.
Intuit has none of the professional tax prep market (not accounting for your wife's nephews neighbor who took a tax class and does returns as a side gig) and never will. |
$900.00 isn't too bad. I paid $700 cdn ($500 usd?) for 2012
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I just logged into my Quickbooks to see how to cancel my renewal and the renewal page showed it would be $485 to renew for another year. They must realize their normal price is way too high?
I still hate them and now can’t decide if I’m going to cancel or not. The pop up notifications when trying to enter my account info drives me nuts. |
Why am I only paying $15/month for QB? What am I doing wrong that I can't pay $1000 a year like you guys? Am I not cool enough?
Crap, I just looked, apparently I'm not paying $15 a month, I'm paying $32 a month, and NOW I'm paying $37 a month. Still lots cheaper than some of the numbers tossed around here, but I'm up to $420 a year...not so happy about that... I only have it because it makes clean easy professional invoices, which I need when I work with my big clients (local government type things). |
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