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05-28-2003, 02:46 PM
I've been using QB from version 2 (was there a 1?) and upgraded each time until version 5. Intuit even paid for me to visit London once and give advice on VAT elements of the program.
For a variety of reasons I didn't consider upgrading until version 2002 which I tried and wanted to use before giving up with bugs which made it crash and no interest from their support.
At the time I made notes of the various bugs which I found frightening quickly and tried to report but just with the option of paying for the privelage. So it was money back time - they were very good at that part by the way.
So with 2003 out and the wish to get upto date and more time to sort out any problems I have gone ahead.
Except for the crashing all the old bugs from 2002 were there and I seem to have found even more - again with very little real time spent using the program.
The number of improvements to the core accounting seem remarkably limited considering the upgrades that I have missed - but well worth having overall - exporting to Excel is worth the entire cost of the program for myself. Plenty of glossy side extras which I might have welcomed more wholehartedly if it wasn't for a buggy core.
This is accounting software the core must be fault free then add the fancies.
I like to upgrade regularly (there were exceptions from QB5 to 2003) since the cost is usually paid for quite quickly with improved features (if one prices in ones time) but with my experiences from 2002 and 2003 there will have to be very worthwhile feature improvement to make me do it again - the cost of my time checking bugs out and work arounds - not the software - makes it not worth it.
For a variety of reasons I didn't consider upgrading until version 2002 which I tried and wanted to use before giving up with bugs which made it crash and no interest from their support.
At the time I made notes of the various bugs which I found frightening quickly and tried to report but just with the option of paying for the privelage. So it was money back time - they were very good at that part by the way.
So with 2003 out and the wish to get upto date and more time to sort out any problems I have gone ahead.
Except for the crashing all the old bugs from 2002 were there and I seem to have found even more - again with very little real time spent using the program.
The number of improvements to the core accounting seem remarkably limited considering the upgrades that I have missed - but well worth having overall - exporting to Excel is worth the entire cost of the program for myself. Plenty of glossy side extras which I might have welcomed more wholehartedly if it wasn't for a buggy core.
This is accounting software the core must be fault free then add the fancies.
I like to upgrade regularly (there were exceptions from QB5 to 2003) since the cost is usually paid for quite quickly with improved features (if one prices in ones time) but with my experiences from 2002 and 2003 there will have to be very worthwhile feature improvement to make me do it again - the cost of my time checking bugs out and work arounds - not the software - makes it not worth it.