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Moving from Quickbooks 6 to ????
ericpode
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We are currently using an old QuickBooks 6 which has served us well. I'm passing "doing the books" over to someone else who is more of a novice, and it seems a good time to update our software to something newer and perhaps easier.
We will need to operate a small payroll and VAT which will probably narrow things down a bit.
Perhaps the no-brainer would be to buy QuickBooks 2005 and the optional payroll subscription. However I have a couple of questions about this.
We need to run accounts at an office where there is no internet connection. This is OK with QB6 as online downloads of program and payroll data ended ages ago. But what is likely to happen when we install QuickBooks 2005? I gather that it uses some sort of product activation which no doubt needs the computer to be connected to the internet, and the program and payroll updates will need an internet connection too?
One possibility which we have used in the past is to also install QuickBooks 6 on a home PC which IS connecetd to the internet, download the updates, copy them to a CD and take this to the office and install the updates from the CD. This worked well for QuickBooks 6, but would the product activation and updates system allow this technique to be used with QuickBooks 2005?
We will need to operate a small payroll and VAT which will probably narrow things down a bit.
Perhaps the no-brainer would be to buy QuickBooks 2005 and the optional payroll subscription. However I have a couple of questions about this.
We need to run accounts at an office where there is no internet connection. This is OK with QB6 as online downloads of program and payroll data ended ages ago. But what is likely to happen when we install QuickBooks 2005? I gather that it uses some sort of product activation which no doubt needs the computer to be connected to the internet, and the program and payroll updates will need an internet connection too?
One possibility which we have used in the past is to also install QuickBooks 6 on a home PC which IS connecetd to the internet, download the updates, copy them to a CD and take this to the office and install the updates from the CD. This worked well for QuickBooks 6, but would the product activation and updates system allow this technique to be used with QuickBooks 2005?
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