Quickbooks questions

[DeeVeeEight]

I need to use some kind of accounting program for my small business. I am a sole proprietor who works out of his home. I have no full time employees. I was told to use Quickbooks and I figured I would ask you all about your experiences with this or similar programs that you may be using. What do you recommend? I need to keep it simple as I am a hands-on type of person and book keeping is not my strongest skill.
Thanks in advance for your replies!

 

[DARROW 74]

I need to use some kind of accounting program for my small business. I am a sole proprietor who works out of his home. I have no full time employees. I was told to use Quickbooks and I figured I would ask you all about your experiences with this or similar programs that you may be using. What do you recommend? I need to keep it simple as I am a hands-on type of person and book keeping is not my strongest skill.
Thanks in advance for your replies!

For a small business quickbooks is the ONLY way to go.
I have been using it for a very long time.

 

[JeffP1167]

I will manage your money .. Free of charge!

 

[010752]

About the easiest out there for non bookeepers.
Have been using it forever, in fact they sent me their first dos version for free way back when.
A little pricey now, but but you need the "Pro" version because of the "Estimates" feature. No need to update it if you don't do payroll. You can keep it as simple or involved as you want.
I still use the year 2000 version.

If you use Win 7, you need the latest version, if using XP any older version at a better price will do just fine.

Hardest part is to set up a chart of accounts tailored for your setup.

 

[mrvette]

Wife is a book keeper for many small businesses, and as such she gets the discs from her clients when they upgrade or change something, we have Win 7 on all our machines, and she runs QB 9 and 10 on it ok......she has not had to update to QB 12 yet, as none of the clients has it....

What sort of business is it?? and wife's clients range from lawyers, to manufacturing, importing, service, repairs, even had a gas station at one time....

Wife willing to help if necessary...PM me to make sure I get the message....

 

[010752]

Wife is a book keeper for many small businesses, and as such she gets the discs from her clients when they upgrade or change something, we have Win 7 on all our machines, and she runs QB 9 and 10 on it ok......she has not had to update to QB 12 yet, as none of the clients has it....

What sort of business is it?? and wife's clients range from lawyers, to manufacturing, importing, service, repairs, even had a gas station at one time....

Wife willing to help if necessary...PM me to make sure I get the message....

Now you're really testing my memory and it was only last January. :lol:

With a system I look after for a friend, I had to install a later version of Qbooks they had, maybe 8,9 or 2010 and it would not install because it didn't have XPSP3 (now I remember, pirate install) so I upgraded them to Win 7 Premium and I'm pretty sure that I got a popup that said it was too old to install on Win 7. Ended up getting Qbooks 2012 and all was fine.
Is it possible you just upgraded the os to Win 7 with the older Qbooks already installed?

 

[mrvette]

Wife is a book keeper for many small businesses, and as such she gets the discs from her clients when they upgrade or change something, we have Win 7 on all our machines, and she runs QB 9 and 10 on it ok......she has not had to update to QB 12 yet, as none of the clients has it....

What sort of business is it?? and wife's clients range from lawyers, to manufacturing, importing, service, repairs, even had a gas station at one time....

Wife willing to help if necessary...PM me to make sure I get the message....

Now you're really testing my memory and it was only last January. :lol:

With a system I look after for a friend, I had to install a later version of Qbooks they had, maybe 8,9 or 2010 and it would not install because it didn't have XPSP3 (now I remember, pirate install) so I upgraded them to Win 7 Premium and I'm pretty sure that I got a popup that said it was too old to install on Win 7. Ended up getting Qbooks 2012 and all was fine.
Is it possible you just upgraded the os to Win 7 with the older Qbooks already installed?

A couple years ago we had a lightening strike on a HUGE tree here across the street, vaporized all the electronics for a wide enough radius.. and so HER machine was vaporized, I have since given her the same isolation transformer I run off, with even better protection than I have....

I dunno much except to say she literally massaged and prayed over her old encapsulated hard drive to milk the information outta that thing, managing to save criticality ONE files for many clients.....now a daze things are much better backed up locally here....

so NO, but she said she did some dance on the machine to use the older versions on Win 7.....I so seldom do anything much other than surf with a computer anymore, I forget what she said, but it did sound familiar....

if you want to know more, I put her online to type the answer her way...leave me outta the loop....

:lol::suicide:

 

[vette427sbc]

I just got Quickbooks a few months ago for my small business. I really only use it for creating invoices, but I know there is alot more you can do with it if you want. I like it so far and they give you a free (so generous!) hour of tech support where they can help set it up on your computer remotely. I thought that was really helpful.