what is new in QB Premier 2006 ?

Anyone have a clue what will be avialable in 2006 versions that are new ? especially with respect to Inventory ?

Looks like this was just posted on 2006:

-Elw00de

It sound like they are playing catch up to MYOB.

It sounds like they have done nothing ! Simply made up new forms for the database. I would also be very wary of the importing feature, the website you posted doesn't say anything about how this importing feature will work, only has 1 statement about importing, this is how the 2005 version work too but is plagued with major problems..

Hope they will make some major changes for 2007 to the inventory system.

I wouldn't hold my breath on Intuit making any major changes to inventory. They had an opportunity when they created the Premier Manufacturing edition, and all they did was add sales orders, and assemblies. If you are looking for proper inventory control, you might look at a QuickBooks add-on, or find another software package.

Gary

Actually if I were to take a really educated guess (MYOB who?) I'd say that the improved interface is in direct response to the upcoming Small Business Accounting 2006 from Microsoft.

I've been evaluating SBA 2006 for a few days now and the one thing that stands out, (especially for version 1.0) is its slick interface. Great to see that Intuit will be meeting the challange head on.

More bloat for Customer Centers and Vendor Centers and similar useless crap.

The Vendor History sounds like it could be useful *but* the way they have implemented other features makes it almost certain that this also will be a half-baked poorly implemented feature by people who have no idea what a Vendor History should show and how it should show it. Especially for Construction where everything revolves around Jobs there's no chance they'll get this right.

The exporting feature is 1/10th of 1% what they should be offering in terms of Excel Quickbooks integration.

No change in the horrific waste of space and resources in creating a huge data file when less than half of its size is necessary for the exact same operation in the Enterprise version (that's $3,500 for the privilege, or, for the suckers, take your pick.)

No improvement in the pathetic inadequate reporting non-features.

And to think that someone said that the 2006 version will be *vastly* different?! Different how? The only vastness I see is in the incompetence of their development. This is Quickbooks Crap version

Post a screenshot of the window for entering vendor bills if you can.

You can use a free image hosting site:

Nothing special although it looks better designed than Quickbooks' stupidity. I bet M$ gets the better pick of pc-farms in Asia.

I agree, especially the link field that allows the user to link multiple external files to the bill record. Who would ever want to be able to scan an image of the original invoice sent by the vendor and have it linked to invoice entered in the accounting system? Or a Word or Excel document, URL or short cut? Who needs a 250 character memo field? Or the ability to flag any of eight stored vendor addresses? Certainly not someone as jaded as you.

I agree with you.

There must be a moron as the IT director at Intuit.

It would only take about 1 week for any college student to write up the C++ code so that importing can be done right.

I prey that Bill Gates comes to Canada with thier US accounting version so that there is some motivation to improve the software.

Its like making cars that run on square wheels.

I bet it can be done by a physical education major during lunch hour. One hand holding the knockwurst sandwich and the other writing code.

Their vast incompetence can only be paired up with your vast ignorance.

I told you long time ago, get a programming course in a local community college and even if you drop out, which is reasonably expected of you, you'll immediately notice a a dozen of glaring inadequacies within 10 minutes of running Quickbooks.

Then go cheer vastly for the vast lack of skill that created the vastly different 2006.

==

Wow, you are soooooooooo right.

Its true, 80% of university data structures class drop out, but you learn so much.

The problem is that nerds are not creative.

Concerning the SDK from Intuit, if I download and install it, will it be as easy as setting up an MS Access databse to build something to work around the mediocracy of QB ?

How in the world can anyone answer this question when we do not know your IT back ground?

No

See

For export only capablity, see

You can certainly build whatever is available as a third-party add-on with the SDK but it depends on your skills. This is for advanced programmers with prior experience in working with a convoluted mess of a pathetic flat file database trying to get information out of it.

Your best bet is getting an add-on (I use a couple from Synergration - I'm just a customer) that will do most of the work for you in creating and updating an Access database or Excel worksheets.

I would also add that unless you plan on going into the business of developing third party applications for QB the effort could never be justified.

Grandiose claims but little more than sweeping generalisations and puffery. What I want to see is if they have tried to make the nuts and bolts work better.

For example, have they used positive and negative numbers consistently to refer to debits and credits respectively instead of the current hodge-podge? Polarity can and should be a useful tool in any accounting system, but the shambles in QB results in such idiocies as accounts where both debits and credits are shown with the same polarity.

Ken