[Hidden-tech] Replacement for Quickbooks Pro

[Stefan Gonick]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all of the suggestions for Quickbooks replacements. It brought
up many interesting possibilities that I didn't know about.

My final solution is just to the the "Save as PDF" option for my invoices and
email them myself. It's simpler and cheaper than setting up a new program.

Thank you all for your interesting ideas!
Stefan

At 08:38 PM 5/4/2011, you wrote:
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>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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>Lesser
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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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>[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Stefan
>Gonick
>Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 6:07 PM
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>Subject: [Hidden-tech] Replacement for Quickbooks Pro
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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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