Talk:QuickBooks

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Shouldn't QuickBooks be redirected to Intuit, Inc. instead of accounting software? --Sleepyhead81 08:56, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

No. Microsoft Office doesn't redirect to Microsoft Sleepnomore 11:23, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

• The article was previously a redirect to accounting software. This has been removed with an article text instead (as it should be). --Sleepyhead81 14:53, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, it was I, User:Ojw. I've been formatting a few category:Lists of software recently; a few of them linked to QuickBooks, so I thought it should at least have a stub (both redirect suggestions would have been to pages which link here!)

I've never used QuickBooks, which is why it's still a stub rather than a real article. Apparently it's commercial/propietary, which means I can't just install it to play, either... However, if it's "the most commonly used small-business accounting and management software software in the US" as the Intuit, Inc. article says, then hundreds of Wikipedians must have used it, and we just need to persuade someone to write. Ojw 15:12, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

I am an active user of Quickbooks, however, the task of writing this is so daunting due to its vast size. Can someone set up an outline of sub-headings for software? If this existed, I would be happy to contribute to individual focused topics on the software. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.6.236.10 (talk • contribs) 16:55, April 30, 2006 (UTC)

I am also a user of Quickbooks. I am currently taking a certification through a County College in my area. Right now Quickbooks has a "QuickBooks Certified User Program" [1], where you can sign up to become a Beta Participant and get Certified through Quickbooks itself. I haven't done this yet, although I plan to. My brother took it and you mostly watch chapters through videos to learn. Afterwards, you take tests on what you watched. The videos aren't very long, so it's easy to do when you have spare time.

You may also download a free trial [2] of Quickbooks to play around with. You can try almost every version. I personally downloaded the Simple Start Free Edition, where the catch is that you may only have a certain number of customers, employees, and vendors. There is no time limit, however, so all in all it's a decent trial since you can play around with a lot of the features. Other free trials, like the Online one, have a time limit.

I use to use Quickbooks back in high school for my father's company and just started working for an Accountant who needs help using the program. My brother is a Quickbooks consultant and has experience in almost every version, including the Online one. Also, the film company he uses it for is not really considered a small business, so I wouldn't agree with the article that it is for only small business. Anyway, I would love to help with this but I have little experience on Wiki, especially contributing. I've mostly just used it for, well, my own needs. I could provide information, but wouldn't be sure how to set up it? I *could* probably learn if I felt like it, however that takes a lot of time and just organizing the information would be quite a task. I am not even sure how to go about it even if I wanted to try? If I could simply edit that article or if I had to do something else first. --- Jamieferrugiaro 19:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Restructuring

See Wikipedia:Pro & con lists for why the current arrangement of this article is a bad idea. Uncle G 18:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the Pros & Cons arrangement isn't the best. Perhaps we could outline the various menus of QB and fill in w/content: Vendors, Customers, Banking, Reports, etc.

Two other ideas:

-discuss the different versions of QB - Pro, Premier, Online, and Enterprise
-discuss the industry specific versions of QB Premier: Retail, Manufacturer/Wholesale, Contractor, etc. Jennifer Thieme 06:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I used the Adobe Illustrator entry as a template for this QuickBooks entry, adding in considerable informaiton to flesh it out. I need to find some additional attributions, but I think we've got a good base for this entry now. FYI, I review and write about financial software in my "real" job, so I feel uber-qualified on this topic. --Imobannon 015:56, 9 December 2007 (UTC)