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.

I bought the Check soft personal deluxe which their support told me was the same as this product. If you are looking for a program that takes hours to learn to use and is full of bugs, look no further, you have found it. I have worked with all kinds of personal and business software for 25 plus years. This reminds me of a dos program that was poorly reskinned to run in windows 3.1. Here are just a few problems: 1) It runs painstakingly slow. This is really two programs, one for designing the checks and the other for the accounting. You enter your transactions into the accounting and then the other program opens and they get imported into the other program for printing, 2) The check designing program has templates that are poorly designed and almost impossible to customize. It took me hours to design a business style check that included the name of the business and the signatory and had all the routing and account numbers correctly coded and positioned. Although acceptable to the banking system, it still looked awful. 3) It purports to download data from your bank, in several formats. My bank could supply all their formats and none could be imported. I bought conversion software to change formats and it still would not recognize the usual Quicken, Quick books or MS money formats. 4) Support is by email and all responses seem to be cut and paste generic ones that solve nothing or are a referral to a forum with lots of questions and few answers. 5) You cannot print blank checks to be issued on the fly. All information must be entered when the check is created. e.g. You cannot create and print a check to the grocery store with no amount and fill it in at the grocery store. 6) If that is not enough, imagine this: One of the checks you make out every month is to a landlord that includes separate amounts for rent, electricity, heat, water, telephone,etc. and your check program allows you to split that check amount into each separate category so at the end of the year you think you can print out your annual expenses for each of those categories for taxes and other purposes. The end of the year comes and when you print out your Checksoft expenses by category report, all those checks you carefully split into different accounts when you issued them come out for the full amount under one category split. ARRRRG.

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.

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

My Wife tried to install and uninstall 5 times. With firewalls and everything disabled, on different computer and got the same error message each time indicating a missing dll file. Tried to contact customer support (which is only by email) and was told to put the disk in the drive and hit setup.exe. I have installed literally hundreds of programs on various computers and have never seen anything like this. They may have well have charged $70 for a blank disk. This product does not work. DO NOT BUY IT.

This software will not work with QuickBooks 2015. Found out after purchase. Tech Support said it was a known issue but didnt know when the patch would fix it.

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.

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.

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.

works well with my quicken