[colin thomas]

has anyone gone from the financial package quicken to the next stage up from that, i think it's called quick books professional? i have gone to vista on a new pc and need something that is compatible so that i can still use what i have already,

colin

[Deep Clean Newcastle Gateshead]

quick books is exelent, I have used it since 2000, tried sage and pegasis and quickbooks is the one for me.

[*paul_moss]

Colin ive got it, email me your address.

[Len Gribble]

Colin

I use sage my accountant has it on a multi users licence.  Have a look at what their pro version doses for you and do you need?  Possible saving of £250 that could go to another bit of cc equipment you fancy or any other software upgrades you may need.


Thanks for reminding me wait till xp is no longer supported.


Paul

Very very naughty.



Len

[psg]

Hi Have used both quickbooks & sage. Sage we found a bit expensive, too complex though gives better detailed information. Quickbooks I think for a small business is ideal, not expensive does very nice charts and nearly drops the data into the colums definatly a layman accounting program extremly user friendly.

Jim

[spencer davies]

We have used Quickbooks for years, mainly as we have staff, and use the payroll section, which you have to up date regularly, they have just doubled their charge for this part of their service

I suspect that the company has been bought out by Sage or similar.

S

[Ian Rochester]

Used Quickbooks for a few years now, does everything I need it to do and a lot more, the payroll is excellent and another big plus is you can run upto 10,000 businesses from the one software package, unlike Sage which will only run one unless you buy the multiuser licence.

You should be able to do a straight transfer from Quicken to Quickbooks as they are both designed by the same company Intuit, the best thing to do is ring them and talk to them.

You may also be able to get a "patch" from them that will upgrade your edition of Quicken software to vista compatible.  I get updates sent every year from Quickbooks and from 2006 all their software was vista compatible.

[Joe H]

you can run upto 10,000 businesses from the one software package

Better get my head down in 2008!

[psg]

Ian,
I think that was one of our problems yoiu were able to move versions around from quicken to quicken but not from quicken to quickbooks it used to say " incompatible format". I would wait till end of financial year archive & start new as long as the records are retained their shouldn't be a problem. The newer version on the filter side are more friendly as more & more programs can exchange info easier.

jim

[CARPET KNIGHTS]

Microsoft now have a free accounting package!

http://www.msofficeaccounting.co.uk/default.aspx

Cheers Goron

[Joe H]

Followed the link

Office Accounting Professional you pay for £149

but there is Office Accounting Express is free - anyone downloaded and tried it?

[CARPET KNIGHTS]

Thats the one i was talking about!

is good if you are a single operator you will need to buy add ons if you want to do payroll etc!

[Kinver_Clean]

If you change fro one prog to another make sure you print everything you can possibly print for your records. I changed system and lost some bits that the accountant went ape over. He had to delve in last years records and it cost me dearly.

Trevor