Unless someone from Intuit wants to chime in and give us current figures, there are different ways to estimate the number of businesses using QuickBooks:
In mid-2008, Intuit claimed that QuickBooks had 3.7 million users, representing 94.2% of the business accounting market.
A current Intuit webpage asserts that QuickBooks holds 85% retail market share in small business [...]
What if your computer crashes, and you can’t find your QuickBooks install CD to install it on your new computer?
No worries. Just download QuickBooks from Intuit’s site. That page is here. As of today, you can download QuickBooks versions from 2005-2011.
Note: You’ll need to have your original install codes to be able to install QuickBooks [...]
I blogged before about the hassles many people had in registering a valid installation of QuickBooks 2010, and several people recounted their experiences.
My friend Scott Gregory, CPA, blogged this fall about possible upcoming improvements in the process.
Well, my registration of QuickBooks 2011 went without a hitch. As opposed to being forced to register by phone [...]
What version of QuickBooks am I using?
What edition of QuickBooks am I using?
What update patch do I have installed?
How big is my data file?
How fragmented is it? (And thus, how potentially unstable is it?)
Where is my data file located?
Where is my license number information?
All these questions and more are easily found simply by pressing the [...]
I’ve read a lot in the last few months about people having difficulties registering their install of QuickBooks. I’ve heard Intuit employees respond that improvements have been made.
So with some degree of optimism, I installed and registered a new license of QB Pro 2010 on a computer running Windows Vista.
Overall, I found that the process [...]