QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit Edition 2009
- Save time on everyday tasks like paying bills and recording donations
- Take advantage of easy tools for customizing donor communications and information
- Easily demonstrate financial accountability to your Board of Directors
- The Company Snapshot lets you get up-to-the-minute information on income & expenses, vendor balances, and important reminders all on one screen
Product Description
QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit Edition offers accounting and donation management tools tailored for nonprofits. In addition to saving you time on everyday tasks, Nonprofit Edition makes it simple to demonstrate financial accountability to your Board of Directors, manage expenses and identify important donors. You can also access tools to cultivate donor relationships and monitor program budgets.Amazon.com Product Description
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QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit Edition 2009
I purchased this for a non profit educational organization I am President of. The price was GREAT and the shipping was rather quick. That was my driving force to purchase this product here. I saved over $50 from local retailers. Even some “national” chains could not touch the price I got here. I personally do not use this software for this orgaization, but my staff does. I will ask them about it and add to my report at a later date. I do however use another version of this software and an older version for my contracting business. If this new non profit version is anything like my other copy, it should perform great. Intuit is a good company and I believe they continue to make good products.
Rating: 3 / 5
I have been using QuickBooks since 2005. I have also been a beta tester for QuickBooks during the past 3 years. Each year their product keeps getting better and better. The 2009 version is no exception. Please be encouraged to give them a try, you will not be disappointed.
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased QuickBooks for our hospital foundation. The program itself is quite user friendly. The only downside to the purchase has been setting up the payroll portion, which took customer service assistance. After 20 minutes on the phone with Edwardo, it was finally completed. Then started the upselling of other products and services, which aren’t cheap. All in all, I think this will be an easy accounting software to learn and will serve its purpose for the foundation.
Rating: 4 / 5
QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit Edition 2008 got horrible reviews here on Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/QuickBooks-Premier-Nonprofit-2008-VERSION/product-reviews/B000V4O466/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
I’m trying to decide whether to get the 2009 version but nothing on this page or in any of the reviews as of March, 2009 say whether they’ve actually improved it or in what ways they have. I run a nonprofit and right now we use a Quickbooks Pro edition and it’s good but I fear we’d be taking a step in the wrong direction with the Nonprofit edition. Almost all the 08 reviews said it doesn’t really do anything for nonprofits and in fact makes it harder to do some basic things (like requiring 3 steps/windows to receive donations vs. just 1 step in normal Quickbooks).
This page stresses that you can print a statement of functional expenses for 990 use, but that’s only 1 page out of the roughly 20 pages in the 990 – which seems pretty weak.
I’m open to considering this product. It would be a big help if anyone who gets it can give details either on: a) exactly how it helps nonprofits in ways that regular Quickbooks does not, and does it, like the 08 version, actually make things worse for nonprofits. b) in what ways has it been made better since 08 or did they just basically adjust a couple things and roll out a new version of the same junk?
Rating: 3 / 5
QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit 2008 was horrendous and the new 2009 version continues the trend of being CRITICALLY FLAWED for any nonprofit that receives frequent donations. The product description provided by Intuit is LAUGHABLE:
“Donor Contribution Summary Report: How much has each donor contributed throughout the year?”
Yes, it will generate such a report, but it cannot be used to print donor giving summaries at year end, which is simply put, FUNDAMENTAL to any nonprofit that receives donations. This is such a massive and critical failure to support a rudimentary task of a nonprofit that it is pathetic that this program is marketed as a professional program for nonprofits.
I’ve used 5 different versions of accounting software for nonprofits, including some really crappy ones that are over 10 years old, and ALL OF THEM have an export to excel & mail-merge option for donor giving statements for donors. The better of them even allow the inclusion of custom fields, and print letters that insert into a windowed envelope. QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit does none of these things.
It takes a lot to really irritate me, and this software is able to make me frustrated on the level of wanting to bang my head against the wall.
There are third party applications that allow exporting to a mail-merge document (Beyond the Ledgers makes one that works well) but why should I have to buy another piece of software to do something so specifically necessary to anyone using accounting software for tracking donations? It’s just silly. There is nothing “Premier” about this version of QBs.
In addition, adding donations is a rigorous process that is menu intensive and require tabbing through a silly number of fields. There is no way to pair down the donation page so that it only has the fields that are used by your organization. It’s so 1990s to not have custom fields built into a program. Nothing has been improved from 2008 in this department.
The upside is that reports are quality; QBs itself is pretty useful for accounting purposes, but selling this version as for nonprofits without offering basic and essential functionality undermines even the best things about QBs.
Frankly, if my organization didn’t have a three year support contract with QBs, I would NOT recommend getting this software at all. It is far too limited if you receive a good number of donations, and are required to send out giving summaries to your donors.
Skip it if you can. I would recommend ACS financial suite instead, which is pricey, but worth it in the long run, especially if you’re a religious organization.
Rating: 2 / 5