When you eventually get through, you have to go through a lengthy session of button-pushing. If you refuse to register, QuickBooks stops working after a few uses. Now, registration can be a wonderful thing, but not when a paying customer is required to wait on hold when a plain old mail-in card or email form would have worked just as well. This is the only software package I've ever seen that had this ludicrous registration policy. The last straw is that our review copy of QuickBooks exhibited an occasional bug, failing to record transactions properly on the first try.
Bugs are always annoying, but they're unacceptable in an accounting program.
Its level of sophistication is far behind that of cousin Quicken, and QuickBooks is less user-friendly, less flexible, and less stable than Quicken. Small businesses that do not need to do invoices, payroll or sales tax will find Quicken a better choice. Inc. All Rights Reserved.