[Hidden-tech] Replacement for Quickbooks Pro

[Ted Trobaugh]

I have no experience with Quickbooks Pro or any of the online options
described herein, but it occurs to me to ask the following question: is it
possible to get around the Quickbooks PDF lockout by installing an
opensource virtual PDF printer?  It installs like a typical printer, but the
output is a PDF document (or jpeg, tiff, etc.).

Here is a link to some possibilities:

       http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=virtual+pdf+printer


Ted Trobaugh



On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Paul Stallman <paul at alias-solutions.com>wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
>
> There are two top notch online apps for this exactly.  Harvest and
> Freshbooks. We use freshbools for all of our time tacking and invoicing.  It
> will not only email invoices the client can pay the invoice right online as
> well.  And when You email it you can see if the client actually looks at the
> invoice.  Another nice feature.
> On May 3, 2011 6:06 PM, "Stefan Gonick" <stefan at databasewebworks.com>
> wrote:
> > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
> > ** If you did, we all thank you.
> >
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have been happily using Quickbooks Pro for my time billing and
> > invoicing needs
> > up until now. I just got a notice from them that they will no longer
> support my
> > "ancient" (sarcasm intended) 2008 version of Quickbooks Pro. They are
> enforcing
> > this by removing the feature of emailing a PDF invoice to my clients.
> This is a
> > wonderful feature that they will be disabling on 5/31/2011 in a
> > blatant attempt to get
> > me to pay $200 to upgrade just to keep that feature. I'm really pissed.
> >
> > I am now looking for other software so that they will lose my
> > business. My needs are
> > pretty simple. I want to be able to set up clients, track time for
> > projects, send
> > invoices based on time spent and receive payments against the invoices. I
> would
> > like to be able to email my invoices to my clients in some way.
> > That's pretty much
> > it. I don't actually use any of the rest of the accounting functions
> > of Quickbooks.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations? My computer is a Windows 7 PC.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stefan
> >
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Ted Trobaugh
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