If you use Quickbooks and have been thinking about upgrading to the 2009 version, don’t do it. Yesterday, I got the upgrade which was supposed to fix several hassles with downloading bank info into QB – and couldn’t get it to work.
This morning, I registared with the QB website and started reading the postings in their Q&A area. If I had found this before I “upgraded”, I would have saved myself several hours of work. There are ~200 – 300 postings that date back to mid October and apparently Intuit has really screwed the pooch with this release.
I should be able to get back to QB 2007 without too much hassle, but some of the posts I read were from accountants and CPA’s that have seriously snarled up files for their customers.
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I am completely fed up with "upgrades". They are merely an excuse to extract more revenue from a client base.
To justify the upgrade they add "features" that offer no real value and subject the base product to many, many bugs.
Thanks for the QB warning.
Frosty
"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
I am total agreement with you.
I am sick of upgrading operating systems especially.
when upgrading microsoft operating systems the chances are half of your equipment will not work with it and the other half will need what seems to be endless hours searching and downloading upgraded drivers.
And the software is a hole other head ache.
I feel for the most part that the computers have come to the point that there is no real need to upgrade unless the current one pukes. Speed is no longer as much of an issue that it used to be.
I myself am kind of boycotting new equipment and software as long as the current is doing what I need it to do.
I am still using QB 2002 I quit doing my own payroll and could not find any reason to upgrade. When I was told buy a QB phone rep that I had to upgrade because they no longer supported my version, I said that's Ok I no longer support QB either.
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Edited 3/11/2009 8:24 pm ET by Garry
Frosty,
Standing ovation!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Be thankful you aren't using simply...I think they raised their prices by as much as 75% this year.
There are some free open source alternatives available.
I run an IT shop and QB 2007 is the last release that I think is any good. 08 was bad and 09 may be the worst. We have seen 08 take 1 1/2 - 2 hours to install on a reasonably new computer. Stay at 07!
Scott
Well, it took about five hours, but I believe that I've managed to dump QB Pro 2009 and get back to the 2007 version.For me, the big attraction of '09 was the (supposedly) improved interface for moving downloaded bank data into the QB registers. It's do-able in '07, but time consuming. I think that the '09 version had the right idea, but apparently Intuit made several other changes that have caused major problems. Some of the CPA/Accountant posts on the Intuit forum are describing near-catastrophic failures.To repeat my earlier warning, be very careful about updating to QB 2009 - it appears to be a real train wreck.
Don't know about QB 09 as I am still on something like 97! Still does what I need.
You mention the other accountants losing everything, one question why wouldn't they back up before installing? Especially if its for clients etc. I'm not sticking up for Intuit but I always back up before installing.
Since I'm not an accountant, I can't say why they didn't back up their files, but their posts sure made it sound like a major catastrophe.For my part, I was able to remove QB '09, reinstall QB '07, resurrect a backup of my company file from October and am good to go. My only rework will be to download and enter bank and credit card info for November and December. That won't take long 'cause those were two really SLOW months. - lol
I have been a user of Quicken since 1989. There has been a steady decline in quality from Intuit over the past 5 years. I would not mind paying for "upgrades" on a biennial basis, if the new releases were not so buggy. Unfortunately, each succeeding "upgrade" has offered no real value, with a substantial downside from the poor testing and coding.
Intuit has clearly decided to take a leaf from B&D playbook and degrade their products and brand for short term gain. I only wish there was some real competition to them. If I could export my data to a Google-app quality program, I'd be gone in a heart beat...
Glaucon
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