Bookkeeper 2006 Manage Your Business Finances

by Avanquest

Product Features

• Write checks and process Credit Card payments
• Generate Purchase Orders, for easier ordering of the goods and supplies you need to run your business efficiently
• Set minimum inventory reorder levels and receive a notification when item reaches that inventory level
• Create Professional Invoices & Estimates - Impress your clients and collect money faster with professional invoices and estimates
• Manage Contact Information - Keep track of all customer, employer and vendor information including tax information and account balances. Now, Bookkeeper 2006 lets you import product, customer and vendor data. You can even store unique information including email addresses, cellular phone numbers, birth dates, meeting dates, office hours and more with custom fields.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BIVU3W
• Item model number: 3475
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,599 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Bookkeeper 2006 makes it easier than ever to get your personal finances straight! Write checks and pay bills in record time. Invoice the fast and easy way. Track receivables until they're paid. Bookkeeper gives you all the accounting functionality you'll ever need at a fraction of the cost. Create text messages to include with your invoice With Bookkeeper 2006, you can process any sale, at any time, with any payment, including credit card, ATM/debit cards checks and more Generate purchase orders and manage product inventory Impress your clients and collect money faster with professional invoices and estimates. Improve your company image and customer communication. Choose from estimate and invoice formats for every type of business - professional, service and product

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Easy to make a mistake....almost impossible to correct!, February 12, 2006

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T. Markley (Dulles, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bookkeeper 2006 Manage Your Business Finances (CD-ROM)

While its low price makes it appear to be a good purchase for a small business, it has a lot of drawbacks.

To name a few:
1. Must be installed by someone with Administrator rights.
2. Must be run by someone with Administrator rights.
3. Can only run from a C: drive (will not run on any drive name other than C:, meaning no external hard drives, network drives etc.)
4. There is an FAQ web site for help, but any assistance from the developers cost $25 for the first 10 min. and a per minute charge after that.
5. There is no General Ledger! For smaller businesses this is important. Instead of numerous daily transactions, with a GL you can do weekly or monthly total transactions.
6. It is simple to make a mistake (i.e. date of transaction), but virtually impossible to correct once made. I was entering information from a previous month/year and the default date is always the current date. I hit "save" and then noticed the date was wrong. There is no way to edit or correct without doing a complete reversal transaction.
7. It has some bugs. One item that came up is voiding a check. It has the option to do it, but always came up with an error message. It would mark the check "Void" but did not reverse the transaction.

There are more issues with this software, but I have tried to hit the major problems. It is basically an Access database with most editing features locked out. If you are looking for a starter Accounting software, stay clear of this one. Spend the little extra for a time tested program such as Peachtree or QuickBooks.

We are now purchasing a new program and wasted the money on this one, not to mention the countless hours trying to get it installed and set-up.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this program - its cheap but you get what you pay for, March 18, 2006

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C. Johnson (Spokane, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bookkeeper 2006 Manage Your Business Finances (CD-ROM)

I have to agree with the previous reviewer. It is almost impossible to make a correction once an entry is saved. In my case, I can not figure out how to change the account on a saved transaction The instructions in the manual don't work because I suspect they are incomplete. So the only option is to contact the company for help and at a whopping price! Some savings! Don't waste your money on this program. Buy Quickbooks or Peachtree and save yourself a lot of grief.

3.0 out of 5 stars worked for beginning business, November 2, 2010

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sil - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bookkeeper 2006 Manage Your Business Finances (CD-ROM)

Not as user friendly as quicken but was ok for the first 2 years of my business