Checksoft 2004 Home & Business

by Avanquest

Product Features

• Balance checkbook, organize finances, and print custom checks
• Create and manage checking, savings, credit card, and money market accounts
• Monitor spending; track cash flow; print business and payroll checks
• Reconcile bank statement in minutes; see all account balances at a glance
• Works with Checksoft Home and Business, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and QuickBooks

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001GJBYY
• Item model number: 3448
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 30, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,139 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #46 in Software > Business & Office > Business Accounting > Payroll
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Balance your checkbook, organize your finances, and print custom checks. Your check design works with Checksoft Home and Business, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and QuickBooks for one-step printing. Create and manage checking, savings, credit card, and money market accounts. Reconcile your bank statement in minutes. See all of your account balances at a glance.

Create checks and manage your finances:

Home

• Print personal checks
• Create deposit slips
• Design custom checks
• Insert personal graphics
• Add digital signature
• Balance your checkbook
• Print custom reports
• Import online bank data

Business

• Address book
• Monitor spending
• Track cash flow
• Print business checks
• Create payroll checks

Three easy steps to print checks and manage finances!

1. New account setup: easily setup your checking, savings, and credit card accounts in minutes. Import online bank data or existing Quicken, Microsoft Money, and VersaCheck transactions.
2. Balance your checkbook: Manage your account transactions in one place. Reconcile your bank statement in minutes. See all your account balances at a glance.
3. Print checks and pay bills: Design and print checks for all of your business and personal accounts. Print customized checks with all your financial information in one easy step. Or print checks to be filled out by hand.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars QuickBooks compatibility, March 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Checksoft 2004 Home & Business (CD-ROM)

This product claims compatibility with QB but doesn't deliver. QB will not export data in a format acceptable to Checksoft; Checksoft will not import data from QB. Tech support is a joke ... $25 for first 10 minutes ... forget it. I spent too many hours this week trying to get this to work and it just isn't worth it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as Bad as the others say - but could be better, November 16, 2004

By 

M. D. "The Doc" (Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Checksoft 2004 Home & Business (CD-ROM)

While looking for a different deposit slip template (it only comes with one) I ran across a couple reviews here saying how bad this software is.
I've been using this for my office for the last year or so, and I gotta say that I don't have any serious complaints. While I haven't called the overpriced tech support, I was able to figure out how to format a check pretty much however I want it to look. I'm sure it could be made to be MUCH easier, but it works if you put in the time (TOO MUCH in my opinion to set it up) and know some computer/word processing basics. Once it's set up, it works fine though. I haven't had a problem with day to day use.
HOWEVER, I had actually forgotten what a PITA this program was to set-up until today. I just changed banks, and needed to set-up my new accounts. The set-up problem is that unless you want to use the sub-par templates, you need to design your own template - for EACH kind of check stock you use. You can't copy and paste between templates either, so you have to do each one seperately. Even with just basic type setting it took me over an hour to do one kind of check stock (3 to a page) I still need to do the 1 to a page/voucher checks. Of course, you also have to do one style to print a blank check, and another style ("compatible") to do Quicken compatible checks. So I have 3 more check styles to design. :(
The best thing I can say is that once it gets set up, it works. (you just have to select the "Check Designer" driver as the printer you send the checks to in Quicken, and if you use more than one acocunt, you need to be careful to select the right account when "Check Designer" gets called up)
Since this is the only check design software I've used, I'm not sure if other brands would be any better. However, if I had it to do again, I'd probably spend a few extra bucks and get a more widely recognized brand and hope it was more user friendly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Total Waste of My Money, November 4, 2004

By 

L. Lamb - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Checksoft 2004 Home & Business (CD-ROM)

After purchasing this product, I couldn't get it to successfully install the font that is required to run the program. I uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled until my patience ran out. I figured "no big deal, you can always call customer support to get help." Then I found out you have to pay per minute to speak to customer support because as the company explained, "tech support has not been figured into the price of the product." Well, not wanting to pay more money than I already have into this product, I went back to ordering my checks from the bank.