Customer Reviews

QuickBooks Basic Payroll Up To 3 Employees 2009 [OLD VERSION]

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I have used QB Standard payroll for years most recently purchasing Standard 2008 for unlimited employees a year ago for $99 discounted at retail. It calculated and printed most federal forms (941 included) and automatically filled preprinted W-2 and other annual reports and forms. Standard has been discontinued and Basic does NOT print or fill out these forms for you.

Be aware you will need to obtain forms and do this all manually -- unless you spend a lot more money on the Enhanced version. A forced feeding by Intuit which in any economy breeds resentment.

I use Payroll with QB Pro / TurboTax for Business / QB Point-of-Sale Pro / TurboTax Deluxe and Quicken -- and I am a stockholder. I have read the many complaints on Amazon for years not all of which are justified by any means. But this plus an Internet security vulnerabilty in POS Pro discovered in a credit card industry required security scan last fall (not from an alert by Intuit although they knew it was there) which still has not been properly addressed by Intuit is very damaging to my trust in Intuit.

So if you are using QB to pay employees and also use a POS version with a server and at least one client (network) computer be advised that there is a vulnerability that could make it easier for an attacker to obtain a lot more than credit card information -- employee SSN other personal ID data.

I am still trying to work with Intuit to find a solution -- not just for myself but also for all other customers (few of whom know the risk that exists). I will update this further over time.

My how the mighty have fallen. Quickbooks has instituted a registration scam. You are required to call in to a foreign call center to get an activation code. What you must endure to get the code is endless questioning about the confidential information on your business accompanied by horrible high pressure sales pitches for every conceivable useless product. Quickbooks has systematically increased prices and broken out core pieces of its software to make them subscription services. This is the last time I will deploy quickbooks. Will start looking for a reasonable competing product ASAP.

DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!!

I am a QB Pro Advisor and have many QB clients. I am fairly happy with QB overall, but their payroll systems have a MAJOR SECURITY FLAW in them that everyone should know about. I lost a client over this and suffice it to say I'm not happy. QB Enterprise Edition also has this flaw by the way, and QB does not know what to do about it. They don't seem to care either. Apparantly, even though you can lock people out of QB payroll transactions etc., if they have access to the general ledger, then they have access to detail payroll data. The reason for this is that QB posts the detail of every paycheck to the G/L. So if you want to prevent someone in the accounting department from seeing payroll (a typical client need), user permissions doesn't do the trick. Because even though they can't see the payroll transactions in the payroll module, they can see every gross payroll transaction for each employee in the general ledger!!! Great job designing this part of the system QuickBooks!!!!

DON'T USE QUICKBOOKS PAYROLL!!!!!

I bought Quickbooks 2009 and they want a review on the free Companion software of Quickbooks Payroll 2009. Well my Quicken 2002 to Quickbooks 2009 upgrade seemed to be simple (according to the web site) but just in case the Intuit's web site was lacking information I called before my purchase. They said the transition would be seamless. WELL to upgrade to quickbooks2009 i needed a newer version of quickens 2008 then once that was upgraded i need to upgrade to Quickbooks 2009. Well after an hour on the phone after the install and upgrrades I CANNOT use Quickbooks 2009 since i cant get the Quicken 2008 upgrade to work as promised. THE QUICKENS 2002 TO QUICKBOOKS 2009 IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A NEWER VERSION OF QUICKENS 2008. It is supose to remember each check as written in previous version but it does not. IT IS JUST LIKE STARTING OVER FROM SCRATCH BUT MORE TIME CONSUMING. It should get 1/2 star. Payroll 2009 will be reviewed as soon as Quickbooks makes the patches to work correctly... I am guessing it will be just before the Mayan Calendar runs out in 2012. I have used Quickens since they where a fresh upstart in 80's. They use to make things easy to upgrade. I guess they are too big and just don't love me any more.

Well this again was a free software which was nice but it only does 3 employees and if you need more you have to pay an additional $100 for more than 3 on the basic payroll or $250 if you go with the enhanced payroll for unlimited employees. I suppose this is less expensive than paying a company but still only 3 employees really isn't much. I'm just happy I didn't pay for the software.

Was paying 150+ per year for Quickpay but Intuit decided to not support in Vista. Free Quickbooks basic from Intuit and this 40 dollar program does everything I was doing before except print forms. For 50 dollars more it will print forms too!

Go figure!

SAME AS PRODUCT SOLD IN STORES & THRU QUICKEN; IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THE QUICKBOOKS SOFTWARE, THIS IS THE PROCUCT YOU NEED FOR THE PAYROLL SERVICE UPDATES. GREAT PRICE, QUICK SHP. SAVED ME OVER $100.00. I WAS ABLE TO UPGRADE TO FULL SERVICE PAYROLL FROM THIS BASIC PRODUCT FOR NOMINAL FEE DIRECTLY THRU QB AFTER REGISTERING THIS PURCHASE. THANKS!

I have never be disappointed like this. However, for this price, I can't complain much.