I've just spotted a tweet from Intuit QuickBooks UK which says:
"We all love a freebie! Why not check out our easy to use invoice creator?"
So I checked it out.
Oh dear.
This is the result of my test:
This tweet was posted on the Intuit QuickBooks UK feed. It linked to a page on the UK site.
And we have:
No option to change the currency to anything other than dollars
broken Overpuddlian-style dates
The ability to set a tax rate (so VAT can be added) but no option to input an actual VAT number to, you know, make it a legal VAT invoice.
Odd formatting on one the calculations.
That's just what you can see on the invoice.
You can specify payment terms from a drop down menu, but there are only a limited number, and it doesn't work out the due date from what you select - so you have to set that manually.
That odd formatting on the list above? It's inconsistent. When I changed the unit price to £1.99 - sorry, $1.99 - it made the total $19.9 instead of $19.90
Really speaking, it's less a freebie and more an advert for QuickBooks - but FFS* - if I was actually considering their software, these points would put me right off!
Lol, just saw the title before seeing the poster and thought here we go again. more software pushers to be fed to the wolves... Imagine how I laughed when I discovered one of the wolves was the actual poster
Nice one vince.
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Lol (oops Im apparently not supposed to use such words as a professional - another story!)
When I saw the heading I too thought it was the work of our advertising friends who like to eat spam and eggs! Then I saw it was Vince so got a wee bit excited about the possibility of some free invoicing software that he might be recommending. Oh dear, shakes head. Dreadful!
Did you get a reply from QB Vince? Im not on twitter and besides I have no idea how to use it - I saw a little rely icon above your post but it said I had to join twitter to open it!
Your response is ever so polite!!
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In this case, they avoided being fed to the wolves... by jumping into a piranha tank! ;)
No, I've had no reply from them - not even to ask what I thought was wrong with it, which is a very good example of how not to do PR (and that's what a company's Twitter feed is: PR!)
TBH, part of the reason I tried it was similar to your thoughts when you saw that it was posted here by me, Joanne.
I see some terrible manual, handwritten atrocities (most people here probably do as well) and I've been considering whether I should find the time to write something simple that can be used online. If I did, it would be a simple page with a form, with no log-in (and therefore nothing actually stored) that anyone could use - so I could point it out to the people that need something better than a pen and and their brain. I haven't done it (yet?) because I'd need to learn a few new tricks - I don't really do online stuff, except in a very limited way.
So when I saw them post that link, I thought that'll be handy, and tried it.
And as I said, with the problems I found*, it's no good at all, and by extension, not a good advert for their other stuff.
And that's a key point: While I've no intention of using QuickBooks myself (even though I do have Pro from a couple of years ago), if I'd suggested that invoicing thing to people it's possible some of those people would have gone on to use other QuickBooks stuff. Instead, Quickbooks have turned it into a footgun.
* I ought to try it in a different browser, on a different computer, really. Just in case. I may do later.
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Lol (oops Im apparently not supposed to use such words as a professional - another story!)
Ooooh, do tell!!
All us peeps are waiting with baited breath
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Lol (oops Im apparently not supposed to use such words as a professional - another story!)
Ooooh, do tell!!
All us peeps are waiting with baited breath
Hi John - a response I got to a post where I used certain words...
"lol" "peeps" Who are you? Are you an accountant? That is not the diction of a professional accountant let alone any adult professional. You are obviously a very young person, please show respect to actual professionals who someday you will be working for.
from a muppet who didnt like an earlier answer, couldnt be arsed reading the helpful ones he did have on an earlier post on the same subject and who then wholesale changed a chunk of old posts to try to look like an Accountant, which then just made the answers look completely off topic. He got short shrift from me on the back of that one!
Oh Shaun - that use of peeps has just wiped years off your age as well, but show some respect to those you could be working for someday pleeaaasse!
I can almost hear my English teacher from the convent school turning in her grave.
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I've been considering whether I should find the time to write something simple that can be used online. If I did, it would be a simple page with a form, with no log-in (and therefore nothing actually stored) that anyone could use - so I could point it out to the people that need something better than a pen and and their brain. I haven't done it (yet?) because I'd need to learn a few new tricks - I don't really do online stuff, except in a very limited way.
Get a move on man!!!!! I know once done it wouldnt need any road testing!
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These young 'uns today eh Shaun, she'll be telling us that's sick next!!!
OMG thats totes amazin... lol.
ok, I admit it. thats an alien language to me and got it off a TV advert.
Couldn't believe the arogance of that guy in Aweb... Plonka... He should be begging for our Joanne to work with (not for, with) him. Not coming accross as though she was going to be going cup in hand in search of the morsels from his table... Grrrrr.
If you were wondering, Khonkean is me. That was almost my user name here as well when I first started but wanted to keep the two seperate. Turns out I spent all my time here and non posting over there.
In case you're wondering (which you're probably not but going to tell you anyway) Khonkean is the second city of Thailand and nothing to do with conning someone called Ken .
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Oi! I use 'mahoosive' occasionally. Perfectly fine word. (And 'peeps' actually).
Shaun:
"Turns out I spent all my time here and non posting over there.
"Ditto. I had an Aweb account long before this forum - but I only log-in there once in a blue moon, and have never posted. I did just log-in for the first time in ages to read the thread in question, though. :)
Edit: formatting went pear shaped.
-- Edited by VinceH on Wednesday 16th of August 2017 03:26:41 PM
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Er yeah John what is wrong with mahoosive? Use of such is so sick John! She says whilst trying to do that finger clicking thing that teenagers do and failing dismally.
Im waiting for the plonka to troll me as Ive used 'sticky mits' and 'pile of tosh' on a similar themed post (c79 import vat) today.
Oh and Shaun, or should then be Ken? - 'totes' - well I used to think that was posh, although surely its totes amazeballs? I actually saw someone on there called Kylo Ren so thought you had forgotten your old log in and re-set up, but have to say the question he asked wouldnt have been one that you needed the answer to! Think we have posted once together in a very old post and certainly Ive seen John on there once or twice, but not you Vince for obvious reasons. There are a few peeps who have had accounts for years and dont post- spotted one from 2012 the other day as he was obviously finally compelled to ask a question. I joined in 2013, go on a lot for a few days and then leave as I find it can easily take over your day, but some of the posts are just hilarious. This weekend I was a wee bit bored.
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