Quickbooks Basic Edition 2003

Customer Rating:
Summary: Time consuming to install and negligible improvement.
Comment: The installation is tedious and non-obvious. Moreover there is no succinct description in the documentation as to how to migrate files from version 2001. The default installation script for Windows XP did not function without some modification. And Norton Personal firewall must be turned off, while down loading all the patches and up-dates of which there are many. The only reason to buy this product is because Intuit's 2001 version will not function with contemporary versions of Internet Explorer, therefore if you use a current version of Explorer, and are doing a re-install of the product, you are forced into the up-grade, which for my business, offers no, as not any, value added, features.

Customer Rating:
Summary: I like it.....so what!
Comment: I have been using Quickbooks for almost 7 years. I bought my first copy in 1996. Every two years or so I upgrade. Now I have the 2003 edition and the same quality I have come to expect from Q books was right there.

This is a very intuitive piece of software and I was not disappointed.

Any gripes that are not about the software but about the Intuit corporation are inappropriate and detract from such an innovative piece of code.

Customer Rating:
Summary: I like Quickbooks!
Comment: I do the books for a small business using Quickbooks Pro 2003 and I love it. The program is logical and elegant. In most cases I'm only limited by what I don't know or have forgotten about the program. My only knock is that I would appreciate a broader search feature, but I am not unduly troubled by the minor limitations it has now. I find everything I need with relative ease.

Customer Rating:
Summary: No customer service
Comment: Please start with a different accounting software. Intuit locks you into their expensive payroll updates that you could input yourself if they would let you. Manually typing in the government info for payroll checks every payroll doesn't sound like good computing.... but $169 a year sounds like "GOOD PROFIT." I like the program... but extremely dislike the management. Moving to another program.

Unhappy

Customer Rating:
Summary: Quick Books 2003 - ....
Comment: Some improovements in the tax calculations, but very poor in modified accounting entries. Owner's manual shows very little, free "help" on line doesn't address important basic navigation and tasks in the software. Technical Customer Support available only after payment of a minimum twelve months support contract.
Customer feedback nonexistent. It was a wrong choice.