Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Gave up on EasyStart

Well, we gave up on EasyStart almost immediately because it does not have online banking, which for me, I rely on heavily because I don't want to reconcile my bank statements by hand.

Overall, there are things I definitely prefer with Easy Start for these reasons:

- less clutter in the interface, easier navigation
- i liked you could list invoices/receipts like an actual list.  I've never been a fan of how QB shows Invoices as a 'stack' with Next/Prev buttons.  It's just not very intuitive and makes it hard to browse through items.  This actually gave me an interesting idea, what if QB viewed invoices similar to the coverflow feature of iTunes?  I think that would be a really slick addition, that would give the interface a renewed look, and make browsing easier.
- way too many menu items in Pro/Premier.  It reminds me of Microsoft Word, and how its difficult to remember exactly which submenu you would find a certain item.

I would've been completely satisfied with EasyStart if it had online banking downloads, but I guess that's a good reason to keep this feature in the more expensive flavors.

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