I won’t let any program do the rec on it’s own, QB or quicken. But that’s just me. My problems with QB2007 don’t have anything to do with the auto rec, since I’ve never used it. QB2007 is VERY VERY slow for starters. You can’t turn off the Audit Trail (part of the reason why it’s slow), so you have to remember that anything you do get’s recorded for someone else to look at later should they feel the need to. I have alot of problems with it not allowing me to use it with more then one user, but that may or may not be an issue with my network). It’s really really slow, and it’s just not as good as QB2004. It seems to be kind of bloated. For example, in 2004, if you wanted to see your vendor list, you clicked vendors and the list of vendors popped up along with their balances. In 2007 that happens but theirs also another window in the box that shows all the open invoices (or all transactions) for the vendor that’s highlighted. While that can be nice, it means that if you need a phone number of a vendor, first you click vendors, then you wait while it loads all the transactions for the vendor that’s highlighted when you open the window. Then you click on the vendor you want and wait while it loads those transactions, THEN you can get your phone number. Yeah, you can turn all that off, but I went and got used to it before I realized it could be turned off.
Another thing, I think is just stupid. I keep both my vendors and customers sorted by amount due (to them, or to me). So when I look at my vendors, it loads them in order of amount due from highest to lowest, then under that is the rest of them in alphabetical order. Okay, so far so good. What I don’t understand is that when I open the vendor list (or cust list) instead of opening up with the fist vendor highlighted, it puts the first vendor with a zero balance at the top of the screen. Then I have to scroll UP to see all the vendors with balances. That seems stupid to me, as the one’s with balances are most likely the ones I want to see. Oh and when I mentioned before about it loading all the transactions for the vendor that’s highlighted when I open the vendor list. It takes, on average, between 3 and 10 seconds to load by first alphabetical vendor which not only has no open invoices, but no transactions at all listed. But I still have to sit their and wait while it figures it out.
And it seems to drag along no matter what I’m doing. I spend alot of time on the phone with both vendors and customers just waitng for QB to do it’s thing so I can get after the info I need. I’ve gotten in the habit of pulling info before I even call them, or if someone else answers the phone, I ask them to find out who it is, so I can pull up the account while they’re on hold.
Yeah, if could be our computers to a certain extent, but I think it’s just really bloated. Trying to be impressive (look here’s a quickreport on the customer you just clicked, I know you just wanted their phone number but if you can wait 12 seconds for that I’ll show you the one transaction you made with them 11 months ago).
Wanna make me happy, how about this as an option, if I ask for a quickreport within the first week of the month, add in last months data as well. Oooooo, even better, a quickreport is setup to run a report for the current month. Let me set the parameters of what a quickreport should be. I’d like to see it be Last month to current date. That would be great. Especially since a quickreport near the beginning of the month is useless.
I could go on, but if you have any specific questions about 2007 let me know.