Comments on: Comments on QuickBooks Online Edition

By: Tim Glinatsiis

Tim Glinatsiis — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:00:13 +0000

It would seem that the author and I went down the exact same path. While waiting for a burrito yesterday, I browsed through the Intuit site, and was jumping up and down when I saw that they were offering an online version.

I hopped on the iMac, and sprinted for the free-trial…only to find out they’re using ActiveX.

Dude, Intuit…get the net. We want cross platform — and we CERTAINLY don’t want ActiveX. I don’t even want ActiveX on my PCs.

Unfortunately, you keep staffing your online teams with idiots. I bailed out on your Quicken BillPay service after 3 days because the same idiots were incapable of building an interface that works.

Congrats..they’ve done it again. I’m going to spend a little more time with my Freshbooks account, rather than fork out $200 to get Quickbooks on my Macs.

By: Timothy Gray

Timothy Gray — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:59:44 +0000

I couldn’t agree more about QB for Mac. I’ve been using Quicken for years and love it, but this year my accountant had me switch to QB. I thought it would be pretty similar to Quicken since they are made by the same company, but QB is awful! There are so many things that QB could learn from Quicken. I find that Quicken is actually more powerful in many ways. It’s a shame that Intuit was so short-sighted with the online edition.

By: Brad Estey

Brad Estey — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:50:47 +0000

I found this article on how to create a live link between a Microsoft Access Database and a Quickbooks Pro data file.

http://www.qodbc.com/qodbcaccess.htm

Why not then, just build your own system with your own interface? ASP is an extremely easy language to learn and would allow you to edit the access db via your browser. Or if you’re more comfortable with PHP then there are plenty of My-SQL to MS Access converters out there aswell.

Personally, I’m the type of person to want to build my own money management systems rather than entrust it to another company. Plus I’m cheap and wouldn’t want to pay those fees.

By: P.J. Onori

P.J. Onori — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:55:07 +0000

I really dig this new design. Well done.

By: John P

John P — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:16:38 +0000

I am looking for someone with the experience to assist me in placing QB on a server that will allow us to have company managers access the books through our web site???
JP

By: Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:57:41 +0000

I run a small interactive firm as well and we currently use QB for the Mac. It has not been bad at all. Its freaking accounting software for christs sake. ha.
We also use Creative Manager Pro (I think the link is creativemanagerpro.com) for our time management and they offer the full gamut so as of January one we are switching everything to CMP…it is also IP based so it can be accessed by my accountant anytime remotely so that is nice. I hear one of the key benefits is that having the financial component tied in with project and time tracking you really get more detail on your profitability.

Cheers,
Bobby j

By: Dan Rubin

Dan Rubin — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:19:18 +0000

ActiveX will only be *mostly* disabled in IE7, at least according to this post in the IE Blog. Exactly what the restrictions will actually mean for a large web application like QBOE will remain to be seen, though I'm sure application development teams will be testing extensively using the IE7 betas (and are likely doing so already).

By: Kevin Tamura

Kevin Tamura — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:32:33 +0000

Boy won’t they be surprised when Active X is disabled in the next version of IE. Opps.