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Classic Kitchens & Baths is not in the business of tracking expenditures and compiling tax information, so when owner Steven Strano discovered Intuit QuickBooks' easy-to-use accounting software, he was delighted to realize he could spend more time designing and building clients' kitchens and bathrooms instead of tracking cancelled checks and 1099 forms.
"With the Check Reconcile feature I save a lot of time vs. looking through bank statements and cancelled checks," said Strano, president of the Littleton, Massachusetts-based firm. "Now I have perfect bookkeeping. I print checks that look much better and more professional. I can also print 1099 forms, which saves time."
Strano was using Microsoft Excel and OneWrite before he bought QuickBooks Pro 2008. He also looked at Microsoft Money and PeachTree but decided on QuickBooks software after concluding that "it [was] the best deal out of all the ones I checked."
Despite the software's wealth of capabilities, Strano was up and running within a few hours, helped by QuickBooks' built-in video guides, he said. Classic Kitchens & Baths does not use the software's inventory feature, and Strano found the customer delete feature to be "a little strange."
Overall, Strano rated QuickBooks 2008 Pro a perfect 10 out of 10.
As a builder of four to six custom homes a year, Daniel DeVol Custom Builder Inc. is used to focusing on even the smallest details and needed to make sure its software program would do the same. When the company needed something to organize and manage its complex schedule of deliveries, subcontractors, customer orders and meetings, the Dayton, Ohio-based custom builder researched both Microsoft Project and Intuit QuickBooks for use with its existing Sage Software ACT! and Microsoft Visual Basic solutions.
"I looked at Microsoft Project and it was way too complicated," said Dan DeVol, president. With QuickBooks, on the other hand, "I could open up Visual Basic right away."
After paying about $300 to download the program from Intuit's website, DeVol began using Intuit QuickBooks and quickly organized his company due to the program's ease of use. "I feel like there is a plan in place," he said regarding his software solution. Capabilities like being "able to create a list of service-type items and email them to subcontractors is invaluable."
Overall, DeVol would rated QuickBooks a 9 out of 10, "only because I don't think anything deserves a 10," he said.
