When we recently updated the tables in Basic Payroll under QuickBooks Pro 2009, we got the message that it would no longer calculate payroll taxes after May 31, 2009, even though we had purchased a 12 month Basic Payroll license in January of 2009. I was informed that we would get a credit for the unused portion, if we did not upgrade, but I was disappointed that we were not warned when we purchased the Payroll license, since they were told we were using QuickBooks Pro 2009.
We did decide it was reasonable to purchase QuickBooks Pro 2009 at this time. Office Max has it for $99.99 this week, and they threw in 3 other Intuit packages in their individual retail boxes One is the 12 Month Basic Payroll Package. (The packaging indicates that the payroll subscription has to be activted before 5/31/2010 and within 90 days of purchase, although I don't know how they can check the 90 day part) The others were Web Creator and Credit Card processing. We also had a $15 off coupon, so it was a little under $92 after sales tax.
I do have some questions. (FYI, we run Windows XP SP3 and high priority updates are current.)
Is the "Look and Feel" of QuickBooks Pro 2009 pretty similar to
2006?I noticed on a screen shot of the home screen was that the Banking Account Balances were not displayed. Is there an option to display them?
Are than any known issues if we leave 2006 on the machine, in case we want to look at an archived Company File at some time in the future? We left QuickBooks for Windows 5.0 on the machine, and there did not seem to be any issues when Pro 2009 was installed.
There are references to Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. I read somewhere that it is on the installation disk. The only .Net on the machine is 1.1. Is .NET 2.0 required to run Pro 2009 and Basic Payroll? If .NET 2.0 is necessary, would I be better off to install .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, so that I would not risk any problems with anything funny in the version on the disk, if something else (I read somewhere that if it detects .NET 2.0, Windows Update will want to install 3.5 Service Pack 1) forces me to get 3.5? I would think the QuickBooks Pro 2009 installation package would not try to overwrite the 2.0 that is supposed to be included in
3.5. Does anyone know if that is correct?Thanks for any incite you can provide.