If only it were possible to wring Quickbooks's neck

I feel the need to say that every now and again. 
Quickbooks is the most annoying program....EVAH

Oh God I forgot about features just suddenly becoming unusable and forcing you to upgrade...the only reason I'm using whatever version I'm using now is because the last version I had suddenly lost the ability to email invoices to customers and I was having to manually attach invoices to emails myself. Out of frustration of doing that, I ended up splurging however many hundreds of dollars on a brand spanking new version, but no doubt that will be out of date soon too. Meanwhile my accountant doesn't want me to upgrade because their office uses an earlier version and the new company files aren't backwards compatible....I think basically Quickbooks is some funky old DOS program that's been spruced up and patched and added to higgledy-piggledy until it is what it is today, mutton dressed as lamb. Bah!

I once lost a part time job as QB admin when the owners refused to do an upgrade and just let that portion of their business go out of business. Shucks, it was a local plumber who was only one mile from my country home, plus I had the security of knowing if anything went wrong with my plumbing, they'd be right there :)

Still running v4.0 here.
Downside, I have to use a 32 bit machine.
Wait a minute, it's accounting, pretty basic stuff!
Manually attach a pdf, or buy into intuits constant update hassles?
V4 works great here...

DeeringAmps
Still running v4.0 here.
Downside, I have to use a 32 bit machine.
Wait a minute, it's accounting, pretty basic stuff!
Manually attach a pdf, or buy into intuits constant update hassles?
V4 works great here...

Imagine having to send out upwards of 100 invoices and having to manually attach PDF's to all of them. Versus clicking "send invoice batch" in Quickbooks and having both emails and attachments generated automatically. Sometimes in business I guess you have to think about the value of your time, and attaching all of those invoices manually would take me more than an hour. That's an hour I could spend doing more useful stuff. So you weigh things up and then decide it's worth upgrading. But it still stings, because really there was no need to upgrade if Intuit didn't deliberately disable features of the program to force you to do so. 

C'mon guys, it's called Quickbooks for a reason!  If features were meant to last, it would probably be called Foreverbooks. 

We have no employees. Just Mom n' Pop the two officers in a incorporated concern jockeying for superiority over one and other at all given moments of the day. Therefore we get to run QB 99 as we have from day one. Faster than a scalded kitty, never ever update as there are no tax tables for officers that don't get paid conventionally.
 
We do support companies with that over bloated behemoth that is SlowBooks today.
Feel so bad for y'all.

Sheesh James, don't sugar-coat it!  Tell us how you really feel.  

sharke
I feel the need to say that every now and again. 
Quickbooks is the most annoying program....EVAH

I am not a great fan of these at all, but I'm spoiled. Mom is a corporate/professional accountant with 40 years behind her, and she still takes her classes at 80 to make sure she is up to date and still has clients coming out of the woodwork!
 
About 's when I started helping her, my thought was that I could take some of the bad folks that we did their paperwork and make an effort to try and help them, and we could use the likes of Microsoft Money (then!!!), Quicken, or Quick Books (later), and such ... but in general, the three places I did their book-keeping for, all I did was set these up as a CHECK BOOK, and then I would go in at month's end, define each check, and where they belonged, and then pulled out a complete statement of expenses, deposits and such.
 
One problem ... I have never met a business person, that was honest with their "business". And in most cases, stealing, or trying to hide it from the state/feds, was more like around the 25 to 30% mark ... and I have been around mom and accounting stuff way too much to warn you ... you will regret getting caught one of these days, as it will cost you everything you got and then some!
 
Quick Books, is not designed for professionals, and you will need to separate the work you do in book keeping to the actual accounting, and inevitable tax returns, and monthlies to the state and such. 
 
In many ways, mom finally decided, and I agree, that it was easier when they brought in the Safeway bags with 3400 pieces of paper in it at the end of the month -- and we sloshed through it. At least we knew what we did with the stuff and where it all was used, although, I ... wait a minute ... a plastic doll for a car shop? ... yeah ... try hiding that ... (you know what I mean!). But, if you need to know, the "bills" from the purveyors for the stuff you brought in, NEVER came close to the expenses. Meaning that you paid out much more and you are missing slips of paper that account for about a third of it all ... and guess where most businesses fail?
 
A good accountant can help with the numbers when it's all there. They can not help you when there is too much missing and the numbers don't match. Quick Books or Slow Books or Peachfree. You name it!