Checksoft Premier

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.

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!

followup: It was unsealed upon arrival, but disk loaded properly. This program would probably be viable for someone that prints their own checks. i do not have a printer. However, I thought this would be good to do checkbook reconcile, but it does not work, things did not work properly and I wasted so very much time entering so much data for it to not even add properly and figures were off. I think the program must have a glitch. I will not give bad stars as I believe it would be good program for someone that just wants to print their own checks. or maybe because it was an opened item, it did not work, anyway, my 2 cents.

Perfect in every way!!

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.

Quicken Compatability PROBLEM!!! Checksoft 2012 (Current) Only works with Quicken 2012 or lower. It will not work with current Quicken 2013 and Checksoft does nor make it clear that people using Quicken cannot updade to a Quicken year HIGHER than the edition of Checksoft or it will no longer connect to Quicken. Their support says thgey are working on Checksoft 2013 but still no info when it will be available and the year is 1/4 over! If I had known I would not have updated to Quicken 2013 until the Checksoft printing was updated to be compatible, since it is a big convenience when it is linked to a Quicken 2012 or below for check printing. I feel this is incomplete and therefore DISHONEST marketing by Checksoft and I hate product dishonesty!!

So your bank will accept a non-standard, non-MICR encoded check? Great! Are you also going to check with the banks of every company and person to whom you are going to send these checks? How about the interim banks that often handle financial instruments between your bank and your recipients bank? You can use Checksoft 2007 Premier to develop beautiful, graphically-alive checks. You can print them on any good-quality printer. But dont be surprised if banks begin to charge you a fee for processing these checks which do not pass automatic MICR scanning and security checks. The Checksoft solution to this, which they downplay any need for anyway, is to get MICR toner. The problem? You must have a common, major-brand-name monochrome laser printer to find MICR toner for it and your color-graphic check design is now useless -- you must print in black only. The check designer program does not give you the option of two-step printing, i.e. printing only the MICR account information with your MICR laser printer and the rest of the check on your color printer with only your graphics design. It all has to print together or not at all. So ... just be aware of the very real limitations to what is being claimed by Avanquest in regard to OCR (optical character read) check processing. You may very well find yourself paying the bank, and enduring unhappy phone calls from them, to use this program.

Great check printing software. Have used it for years.

difficult to use with quicken. I just wanted to print check blanks to use to print checks in the quicken program but was forced to print the blank and check at the same time.

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