Terry, I use PTBiz and Quicken. I don't enter client data twice, since I only need it in PTBiz. Basically, customer records and revenue are in PTBiz, expenses are in Quicken, and scheduling is manual in my Daytimer. I periodically export a client list to my PDA and keep a printout in the Daytimer. I've lived through the entire personal computer revolution, and from the beginning, any so-called "integrated software packages" were difficult to learn, slow to load, and clumsy to use if they worked at all. Nothing has changed in that regard except for the mandatory upgrades. I'd rather do a little manual data transfer, say from PTBiz and Quicken into TurboTax, than pay the cost in hours and dollars to purchase, learn, and troubleshoot the latest whiz-bang "integrated software package". Keeps me off the mandatory software upgrade that then requires a bigger faster computer merry-go-round. Mike Terry Farrell wrote: > Will and Others - Those of you who use Quicken or Quickbooks for your > accounting - are you in any way able to incorporate your service > scheduling and client records with those programs, or do you just > enter client data twice - once for accounting software and once for > scheduling software? Or am I missing something? > > I've been using PTBiz for years, and while it works well in many > areas, it is weak on the accounting end and I am aware that it is a > dead program as the author no longer supports it. > > Thanks for any insight. > > Terry Farrell > > On Apr 25, 2010, at 7:39 AM, William Truitt wrote: > >> I used to use Quicken many years ago as a sole prop and loved its >> simplicity. Which version do you use? >> >> Will >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On >> Behalf >> Of Jon Page >> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:50 AM >> To: pianotech at ptg.org >> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Quickbooks Payroll Rant >> >> I use Quicken and it's all the software I need, imports to >> TurboTax. Pretty simple. >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Jon Page >> >> > >
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