[Hidden-tech] Replacement for Quickbooks Pro

[Charles D. Lappen]

I'm using QuickBooks 2008 and instead of emailing my invoices via
QuickBooks, I just save them as a PDF (File, Save as PDF) then email them
directly to my clients. I use Outlook and I just attach the PDF to the email
as I would with any attachment.

As for creating PDF's I recently bought a new computer running Windows 7.
And QuickBooks 2008 wouldn't create a PDF. After a little research, I found
a fix on the QuickBooks website.
http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Articles/SLN40733
The manual fix of Solution 3 seem to do the trick, but I did all three
solutions in order.

Charles

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Don't have an answer, but would be eager to hear one. I have used Intuit
products since Quicken 2.0 for DOS, but the company's latest stance has gone
too far. I installed 2011 (since I have to upgrade every other year in order
to run payroll) and found that the PDF converter didn't work. A support call
informed me that it was a Microsoft problem with 32-bit Win 7 and that a
support contract from Intuit would be the cheapest solution. After a couple
of go rounds, the tech agreed to resolve the problem, then see if I wanted
the support call. 

After deleting my cookies and browsing history, a number of failed attempts,
and many waits while the tech "researched" the problem, I still cannot
create PDFs with that copy. I resisted the idea of reinstalling Windows and
then QuickBooks. I have installed it a second time on a Win XP box solely to
create PDFs. I like the program a lot, but the company has changed in the
last couple of years and not for the better. 

So, I am following this thread eagerly. I use Win 7.

Don Lesser
Pioneer Training, Inc.
139B Damon Road, Ste 8
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 387-1040
(413) 586-0545 (fax)
dlesser at ptraining.com
www.ptraining.com

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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:07 PM
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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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