Quickbooks sent me over the edge when they forced me to buy a new version - they made the old version stop working.
On top of that it comes with all kinds of crap I will never use. I use it because my accountants are (were) simpletons who only knew that.
All that stuff on the main screen with the arrows.. while I appreciate an attempt at a GUI ( I usually prefer) I don't need any of those things and they waste space on the screen and cognitive time sorting them.
I had bought the pro software years ago, non-cloud. They bricked it, forced to buy again, and kept pushing for the cloud option. I hate cloud options.
I did enough QB learning to find it's possible to take a spreadsheet and import expenses.. I almost started doing that instead of buying the new software so it could download from my banks.
If I used the payroll stuff I could see paying to update - otherwise it's just a huge program downloads a csv from my bank and puts a few same expenses in columns to export to my accountant - at least for me, and it's over priced for that.
I would make custom GUI screens for different businesses and have a preview with one-click change - if a business does not use the software for invoicing, take all that crap off the screen and put it behind a menu - this could make graphics larger and simpler.
I would have totally different GUI's for a conststruction business compared to a hair stylist compared to a dentist compared to web dev.. sometimes I think of these things and sigh.
So.. export to a format that accountants can use, sadly needs to be a thing that is prioritized.
On top of that it comes with all kinds of crap I will never use. I use it because my accountants are (were) simpletons who only knew that.
All that stuff on the main screen with the arrows.. while I appreciate an attempt at a GUI ( I usually prefer) I don't need any of those things and they waste space on the screen and cognitive time sorting them.
I had bought the pro software years ago, non-cloud. They bricked it, forced to buy again, and kept pushing for the cloud option. I hate cloud options.
I did enough QB learning to find it's possible to take a spreadsheet and import expenses.. I almost started doing that instead of buying the new software so it could download from my banks.
If I used the payroll stuff I could see paying to update - otherwise it's just a huge program downloads a csv from my bank and puts a few same expenses in columns to export to my accountant - at least for me, and it's over priced for that.
I would make custom GUI screens for different businesses and have a preview with one-click change - if a business does not use the software for invoicing, take all that crap off the screen and put it behind a menu - this could make graphics larger and simpler.
I would have totally different GUI's for a conststruction business compared to a hair stylist compared to a dentist compared to web dev.. sometimes I think of these things and sigh.
So.. export to a format that accountants can use, sadly needs to be a thing that is prioritized.