We have a 5-user license for QB 2004 Pro and need to know if we can upgrade to 2006 Pro with a 1-user license and then purchase the additional seats as needed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Does anyone know of issues with upgrading from 2004 Pro to 2006 Pro as we try not to contact QB support. We have not had much success when calling them as well as the extremely long hold times. Thanks in advance for any information provided.
You can buy one at a time, even electronically. I think one copy has to be physical but I'm not sure.
I know of no specific issues in 2004 to 2006 upgrade other than the issues everyone has in an upgrade to 2006.
In you case you don't need to call support, you need to call sales and they answer with American's.
Issue. Once you upgrade, 2004 will not read the file any more, so you are going to need those 2006 users pretty fast. It may be much cheaper to get a 5 user pack right away. It also provides the ability to host on a server.
To the previous post, I would add:
As with any critical business application, it is good policy to test QB before going live. Especially one which is not compatible between versions, and which is much more demanding of computer horsepower with each new version.
Upgrade a testing copy of your QB data file, and run it through a few typical scenarios. Since you are multi-user, it would make sense to at least buy 2 licenses so you can test multi-user access.
As mentioned by GCG, QB 2006 can be setup as a true database server, so be sure to test it in that mode.
QB 2006 moved to a completely different data storage method (based on Sybase SQL Anywhere engine). This has improved performance in some areas, but some processes have become markedly slower (ie. requesting some reports via the SDK are 10x slower). Hopefully these are just growing pains and/or poorly optimized SQL statements that will be fixed in the future.
There is no "upgrade" in the former sense of "upgrade" being cheaper than "initial."
You must buy a whole new program that is indifferent as to whether you already own a prior version.
While you are at it disreguard the fact the the price has been lowered to what you would have paid if Intuit issued a rebate to prior users of the product.
Read klunk's post below.
Get a trial copy and test it out first. You'll probably need a very different hardware setup with the 2006 version. Depending on the structure of your data file you may exprerience horrific delays in processing simple transactions like entering a bill or a PO. Check out the user forums on the QB site for more horror stories.
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I know there are no longer upgrade versions of quickbooks, everyone pays the same price...
So does this mean we can sell our older versions and the purchaser be legit, since they are not needed to cover "upgrade" licenses anymore?
...Just a thought
I know there are no longer upgrade versions of quickbooks, everyone pays the same price...
So does this mean we can sell our older versions and the purchaser be legit, since they are not needed to cover "upgrade" licenses anymore?
...Just a thought
You can not sell what you never owned. You purchased a license to use only.
So those copies on the shelf at the local computer store are pirate?!!
I have to add a couple of positive things:
The only reason I didn't nuke Quickbooks 2006 from 3 companies is that the cash basis reports now don't take 5 to 10 times *longer* to calculate than the accrual basis ones.
On a probably related issue, some external programs that rely on the SDK to pull data and produce reports also don't take 5 to 10 times longer to do their job with cash basis data as before.
For all the thousands of hours of wasted time with this problem only, they should still give out free Quickbooks copies for the next 5 years to all existing customers. It looks like they fixed one major glue-sniffer error. Let's hope they'll fix one more in the next decade.
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ten miles over his head. don't ya jist luv it.
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