Peachtree By Sage Complete Accounting 2009 Review

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(More customer reviews)I gave the 2008 version a pretty scathing review, however, (after a couple days mind you) this version seems to reach all the promise of 2008 that was unfullfilled. I guess the biggest new feature is the ability to look at more than 2 years of data but to me the improvements are in the stability and speed. Things actually open fast, like they were suppose to in 2008. I had various bugs in 2008(backups freezing, front screen not showing any data etc..) that have miraculously disappeared with 2009. I have been using this single user version but also have a network version I will install soon. I never installed 2008 on the network after being so disappointed with it in the single environment.
I will update the rating if things change and will likely post under the multi-user version once I get that installed but after reading what they improved they seem to have focused on improving the network abilities of Peachtree so I'm hopeful the speed and stability carries over to the multi-version as well.
The install was flawless and recognized the anti-virus and firewall by name and gave detailed instructions on dealing with both during install.
I am running on Vista and also on a pretty updated machine with max memory so I can't vouch for slower machines until I do the network install. If you are familiar with Peachtree pre-2008 you likely agree it had been the best program for the money bar none. Early returns suggest it is back to that position. Also note they have a quantum version if you run a larger network and need to keep the speed up as I imagine the regular versions will slow down past 3-4 people on a network.
I trashed them in the 2008 review so I have to give them early props for 2009.

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Peachtree by Sage Professional Accounting 2009 Review

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(More customer reviews)I got this because it advertised that it could import Quickbooks data and I was trying to avoid spending the $$$$ for Quickbooks. I also didn't like the trial version of Quickbooks 2009.
Well, this does import from Quickbooks but the little piece of information Peachtree Sage left out was that it only imports the chart of accounts etc. and not the transactions. Complete waste of time and $$$$ unless you want to spend hours entering all your past years figures.
It does have some great information about the details of accounting and I probably would use it if I didn't care about having all my past years transactions available to view reports I value like YTD compared to previous years. Peachtree suggests starting the new year with their software and entering just the totals from previous years. For me, it's the details that give me the information to see exactly where my business needs tweaking and where it is flourishing. Perhaps the automakers could have used this information on their business practices to their benefit.
Anyway, this is a good accounting program if you want something that doesn't cost much, you don't want to import transaction details from previous years, and you need more information about specific accounting practices.
In addition, I was initially impressed with the emails from Peachtree asking if I had any questions when I requested their trial software. I actually found such a great price on the full software that I ordered it before even trying the trial version...my mistake. However, as soon as I stated that I had purchased the full version, I got NO response with my questions about where is the detailed transaction information on the conversion from Quickbooks 2005.
I ended up getting Quickbooks 2008 and it is fantastic and absolutely no issues importing old data completely and working with Vista 64-bit.

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