Never used an accounting software before, just my excel spreadsheets for our small church finances...is this program worth the money?
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Yes! QuickBooks non-profit is definitively worth the money. My husband is a pastor and we use it for our church accounting. It has been a wonderful program.
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I've been using QB2012 profor the past 5 months and while it is true that they charge too much for "enhanced payroll and other features," I found the service very helpful. I run payroll for 2 employees and the annual cost is over $300 bucks plus a $29 monthly fee. This is too much! But when it comes to Fed 941 and state's liabilities I don't have to worry and just process the liabilities via electronic filing. I also contacted their payroll customer service and they were very professional and helpful in answering my questions. I also posted a question on the Intuit blog and I got a response within a few hours. Every software company comes up with upgrades for their products and charges for them but I do agree that QB's upgrades are too expensive, specially after you have spent a considerable amount obtaining the software and paying for services. QB should care more a about its customers and provide upgrades and services at reasonable rates.
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Extra $100 for 4+ employees. I just called. It's a bit of a hassle if you already have a payroll subscription, like I do. First you have to cxl your current subscription, then install the payroll disc and then call and they charge you the full whack ($429) for enhanced payroll, then credit back the value they assign to the enhanced payroll of 3 or fewer employees ($329). SO, if you get the enhanced payroll for less than $329 off the shelf (i.e. Costco or Amazon), then you decide if it's worth the hassle. From everything I've read, the 2013 QB Pro is not something to be super excited about, and may even boggle your brain due to poorer visual interface, new report menu format, etc. I'm thinking about getting the Value pack and if I can do the payroll only, and without simultaneously upgrading the QB Pro, then that's what I'll do for now.
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No. It's not the best software, most people on blogs recommend upgrading. I still use sure cuts alot. It crashes frequently and is not the most user friendly thing I've ever used but a few hours of youtube/blog reading can get it up and running. Windows only.
1294361
I would reccomend strongly against this program. It is a very primitive program which is also hard to use. Serif Web Plus is a far superior product in the same price range, and they actually have a customer service team that is reachable by phone to answer questions.
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No, it is the most basic and isn't even a program, it is the online key to storing your company records online. It will let you record income and expenses online.
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Terris, I purchased the software to manage voice recordings made on a Sony digital recorder. Subsequently, I've used an earbud microphone/recorder (Olympus TP-8 Telephone Pick-up Microphone by Olympus) to make recordings of phone calls dealing with detailed instructions of how to handle tax matters. The number of options outside of my needs are numerous. Keeping in mind that I use the software to "edit" voice recordings off of a digital recorder and a couple of technical phone conversations, my guess is that you will have no problems with the software and will be please with it. Beyond this software, Sony has a number of higher end sound products that would allow you to do studio recording quality. Here's my suggestion: buy the software and play with it for ten minutes - record for 5 minutes or so and edit for the remainder of the time. My guess is that you'll be pleased enough to continue using the software. As your understanding of what your needs are and what offerings are available, you can step up. My version predates the current version and is on sale for $24. Spend $24 and give it a spin. What you do not want is to buy a full blown complicated software when you just want to record your book. In summary, I'm pleased since the software more than meets my needs and was very easy to learn to do what I wanted it to do.
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Mine came with a trial version which I think included word, excel, powerpoint. All I really needed was word so my partner purchased a version for $60.00 a year. I think the $60 version also comes with all of the above. It was a bit of a pain to get it switched over the the permanent version I bougth because the trial version was still in my computer. Sorry I could not be more help but I rely on my partner for all this tech stuff. I think the trial version was only good for a few months.
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I am not sure about the price, but I downloaded the 30 day trial version, liked it (upgrading from older version), so I simply provided payment information when requested and was given the information codes to make the files permanent. Only problem is that I do not have a backup disk, and I need to look into that so you might inquire about this before you finalize the purchase. I hope this answer helps. Dave Kerkes, Ph.D., P.E.
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I'm not really sure I understand the question. Excel is a standalone product. I don't know how you would use it with the other components? Office bundles it with Word and Power Point but they do not interact. You do not need any other software to run Excel. It's a great product, I use it for everything. I especially love the sort feature. Let me know if I can answer anything else. FYI, this is the newer version and is quite different from previous versions. While it does do more, I don't think it's as user friendly.
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We've been using "MAGIX Music Maker 2013". We got it cheap and it's works pretty well. Very easy software to learn. Depending on what you are doing with it though, it can get kind of glitchy to work with. We record several tracks together on a compilation, and we've been running into lag issues with it. As long as you can work around it, you should be fine. Just be aware that it IS a pretty big problem with this particular software. But you can't beat the price!
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Yea Id say so its great program. Just not with windows 8 from my experience in the amazon store I would sudjust you also get magic music maker 2004 delux its like 14.00 that' program got me hooked . Im running magix 2013 and 2014 to me its a downgrade
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I would not be able to say. I do not own that software and have never tried it on this tablet. I have however installed other graphically intensive programs, and the bigger the program, the slower it will perform. Based on the system requirements on the Quickbooks website, this tablet barely surpasses the baseline requirements, so I would not expect fast performance, especially if you use extended Quickbooks features (which take more RAM and storage space). The tablet only has 2 GB of RAM and 64 MB of it is shared for video, so the video performance in circa 2003 levels, to give you an idea. That said, Excel so far has run fine, and the free image editor Paint.NET runs fine as well.
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No, I had to purchase those extra. I bought my machine at Best Buy and I believe it was around $110 for Microsoft office. However, no computers come with this now, only a free trial period. That's because of a lawsuit that was filed against Microsoft quite a way back claiming by having these preinstalled they were creating a monopoly. You may want to look into Google Doc's, they are free and you can do your work on any computer, because they stay "in the cloud". Once you use Google doc ( at least for the powerpoint and word equivalent) you probably won't go back. Haven't tried the excel equivalent. One really nice thing about google doc's is that you can share it, and multiple people can work on the same document at the same time on different computers. Hard to explain,, but really nice to use. Good luck in your search.
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I certainly would not!! Save your money. I would OpenOffice or MSOffice online there both free.
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This is a pitifully poor program. Intuit should recall it and give credit to anyone who has purchased it. You are better off with Microsoft Excell.
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Not exactly in the sense you mean. It has a fairly extensive budgeting function but I've never used it so I can't vouch for it. All I can say from experience is that the program has worked very well for my needs except for a couple of minor nagging issues that I really should contact the vendor about as there is probably a solution already out there.