Checksoft Premier

My story: For some reason my software stopped printing. No change in my accounting software so I thought maybe a corrupted file. I go to Avanquest website to see if there is any help. Web site has someone with the same problem, but I get an error on the web site when I try to get into the answer to this persons problems. Not all of the forum answers are unavailable to me, just this one. I then, as instructed, send an email explaining problem, give my OS, error message, RAM, free harddrive space and my fathers Zodiac sign. OK the Zodiac sign is a joke-- I need a laugh right now. I get an auto response and a promise of an answer within 1 business day. At least 2 business days later I call the number in the auto response email. I sit on hold for 30+ minutes. A tech finally answers me and I learn for the first time that my software is no longer supported. I can get help from the forums or from their Yahoo or Google groups. By this time I want nothing more to do with Avanquest. I am now going out to buy another software package because I have to have it today. My bookkeeper is acting like she is going to start biting the head off bunnies if I dont do something NOW. I WILL NOT BUY ANOTHER AVANQUEST PRODUCT for as long as I remember how mad I am at them right now. And I have a very long memory-- right, Ford-- you remember the last car I bought from you, that 1979 mustang I bought new that barely made it to 30,000 miles.

The program so far does what I need it to do but still learning how to get what I want.

works well with my quicken

All the software I have ever used from Avanquest is nothing but junk! None of their checking products work with Windows 10! There is also NO support without payment! Like others here, I refuse to ever purchase one of their products!

met my needs. A little slow going in the beginning but once set up I have no complaints. )

Product not enough retail sales compatable. Does not give ability to create deductions. Just too general. Dont like check design feature.

Comes with 2 programs (actually more) that dont talk to one another. You make and invoice and mark it paid but you have to open another program to track payments, deposits and so on. If you like qbooks you wont like having to make double entries. Seems to be they just through this together.

Bought the Checksoft Premier package at Office Depot. I have 20+ years experience in computer software and support. Simply put - THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT RELIABLE, NOT EASY TO USE, AND HAS THE WORST HELP AND SUPPORT. Do NOT waste your money! I could not even split a check to different accounts. (the screen comes up, but theres no way to insert a additional account for splitting and absolutely no help or support - not at the Help menu, the Avavquest website, or their gross excuse for tech support... I am using this as a stand-alone product on a stable Win7 workstation, no ties to any other financial app (Quickbooks, Quicken, etc.). It should work by itself and it DOES NOT WORK. If you are a small business owner looking for an easy to use simple Invoice/Check writing system, FIND A DIFFERENT PRODUCT!

I have been using this software for over 15 years, but I must give it one star for its bugs and total lack of support. I have spent days getting this thing to work properly, repairing it when it stopped working and fixing its problems. It can be frustrating and unusable for the unenlightened. Ill write quite a bit here so you can figure out if this will work for you. Checksoft Premiere consists of three programs -- a really crappy bookkeeping application, a print on the fly virtual printer that captures Quicken or Quickbooks print data and creates a check on blank stock and a design application to design those checks. The checks print with MICR numbering, so if you buy magnetic toner, you can print them for the bank. I have a number of checking accounts on Quicken, so this application lets me keep blank check stock in the printer and print on it from any of several accounts without switching stock. It also permits 100% freedom in the check design, including images, fonts and placement of elements. So it has all the things I want. The problem is that it is buggy and unsupported. Designing a check and figuring out the program will take you literally hours. The virtual printer installs well and you set Quicken to print to this virtual printer. Whenever Quicken sunsets a program and requires you to update (every 3 years now), you must wait for CheckSoft to offer a new version of their Virtual Printer. So you must buy a new copy whenever you buy a new Quicken or QuickBooks. Then you must take a few days out to get this thing working. My most recent experience is with Checksoft 14 -- made for Quicken 2014. I loaded it and it worked fine for ten days. Then the Check Alignment adjustment stopped working. The only support available costs $10. You can email the publisher for free support but the help they offer after waiting four days will be useless. They only read to you from the manual. I spent perhaps 30 hours getting this thing back working. Ultimately, I uninstalled the program, which left many corrupted files behind. I searched for these files and deleted them. Then I searched the registry and removed any reference to Check Designer, Checksoft and Nova. Then I reinstalled the program and it worked. Zero help from Avanquest, the publisher. So if you need the features I describe, buy this with a credit card so you can stop payment if you cant get it to work. The publisher wont do a thing to help you or give you a refund.

Dont waste your money. I bought it brand new and cant even load it - getting an error message that the license key is invalid. Tried to contact customer and tech support and got nowhere. I spent a lot of money for NOTHING. This software should be taken off the shelf and no longer sold anywhere. I think its a scam.