

I found that the only advantage to them was their ability to directly connect to financial institutions. I then made an honest effort to use QuickBooks. I did make an honest effort to use Quicken after MS Money was discontinued. I would be tempted to give that combination a try. Maybe along with opensource free to use yet proven MySgl? If something would happen to the reliability of my retail version of Microsoft Access. what is your educated opinion on how difficult to set up the most straight forward forms & reports tailoring them as simple as possible in mySql & some other open source database program. It is based on what I did & am still doing with some 2002 retail versions of Access that still works great in Windows 10. I am just putting that out as a potential option for some of us. I even thought about just going back to Quicken home and business, since it can import easily into turbotax or Quickbooks. I searched on here and it looks like a few people piped up about using QB, but I thought I'd ask if anyone used something else. No bill pay, no check writing, no magical anything else. I really just care to have monthly financial statements and EOY statements for taxes. Is that really necessary if you have 1099 contractors? Desktop Pro is what I'd probably get, but thats somehow $200 and $300/yr to update?ġ0-15 years ago when I was first getting started I did a bunch of research, and I know now there's a ton of new software solutions I'd never heard of. I was going to just probably move over to Excel or quicken, but I thought I'd see on here if anyone else has any other recommendations. I also do everything I can to avoid subscription services, although Quickbooks Desktop Pro isn't off the table. I don't write any checks ever, don't need any bank syncing, and I hired an accountant for my other businesses, so don't do any of the complex stuff anymore. So I have my books done through the EOY 2018 in a QB file from my old PC, but QB is so complicated and expensive, it seems like overkill for a car wash. So I kept my old computer running through now to finish up my books for 2018. Quickbooks is nolonger activating 2008 installs. I used Quickbooks 2008 for 11 years, but I bought a new computer for the new year, and I can't install it on there.
