MyInvoices & Estimates Deluxe

Was not what I needed my old one is great this one not so goodI

simple invoicing system if u dont need to spend big on other invoicing systems it dose great job as you can back up and keep track on your earnings .... i recommend as im a small business owner .....

Its a little hard to understand for me but the more I tinker with it the more I learn. Its actually not to bad but I just need to be more tech savvy. It does what I needed it to so thats a big plus.

Simply cant click an invoice and mark it paid. Multiple steps required. One customer, several invoices, you gotta open each invoice individually and type in amount paid. Cumbersome. There are other things I dont like but Im not here to write a novel. I could but Im too busy wasting time on invoices.

This product, even though not perfect, seems to work well for a small business were invoices are needed. It keeps track of the jobs and the price for the program is cheap.

I agree with all of the 1 star reviews. I have been using this and have my complete customer base in the file base. This morning I pull up the program to write my invoices and I get a message I have the wrong Key Number. I dig out the original package on on the disc jacket is the 29 keystroke number. I enter the number and they want me to re-purchase the program for $39.95. All of my work and customer base is lost. The back up was to no avail. If Avanquest was near me, I would box up this program, duct tape it to a paving brick and throw it through their window. There is NO phone # for customer support in their 408 page Users Guide.

works good

If this would make tracking time/hours EZ, then I would give it TEN stars but noooooo; too cumbersome for time/hours invoicing much needed since Microsoft will no longer support Time$heet Pro 7 & its print machine Crystal Reports. The latter upgrade not worth the $400 & not sure it even works. This scores very well on EZ setup and invoicing. Remembers past entries with just a few key strokes is ideal, reminds me of MYM accounting (Managing Your Money that became a A. Tobias property, long missed when Microsoft killed it - left it behind in winXP). Only glich I discoverd on my tour before I uninstalled the program: Windows 11: error in script on Help screens - simply click error out of the way

Definitely helps easy to use

I have previously used version 2 and version 3 - both are far superior to this piece of garbage. When I start next-years invoice database, I will be going back to version 3. Difficult to create template - the text boxes change format after editing complete. The invoice editing screen format resets to screwy defaults each time the program is started and has to be changed to more easily find desired invoices or to edit invoices. Borders default to 1 on all sides, which if you do the math wastes 40% of the page (8.5x11) is lost to the border. If you also count the extra border built into the form, the loss is closer to 48%. On the default invoice template, only 2-3/4 x 7 (less than 25 of the page) is allocated for the Date/Description/Hours/Rate/Amount. The template can be edited and you can make it to fill more of the page, but it is a lot of work - then when you print, you have to reset the margins each time the program is started. On the invoice editing screen, the widest entry field is the date, which has room for about 25 characters. The description entry field shows one line with room for about 18 characters visible on one line (two lines if you go back to edit a line), the hours, rate, and amount have room for about 18 characters each. So, each time you start the program and go to the invoice entry page, you have to expand the filter half of the screen, then decrease the date width, then expand the description field width, then fiddle with the hours, rate, and amount fields to get reasonable field viewing widths. The invoices listed can be filtered (although the filters have to be reset each time you start the program) The default is all Overdue invoices are listed. The brilliant programmers consider all invoices are overdue, no matter the date on the invoice nor whether or not they are paid. There is a box to check to Only Show Overdue, but that does nothing - it even shows an invoice that I have dated 12/31/2017. You can check a box to Hide Paid, which does work, but the box has to be set each time you start the program. Both v2 and v3 of the program automatically prompt to perform a backup on exiting the program, v10 does not, you have to remember to backup and click on the non-obvious Microsoft style do something but I dont know what to call it icon on the left of the menu bar. This piece of crap uses the Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 English database engine. I dont know if the limitations on MyInvoices and Estimates Deluxe is because of this database engine (I deeply distrust any database engine produced by Microsoft because of problems I have seen in the past with how poorly they work with other Microsoft products). The only reports I need that the program provides are sales by customers and sales by terms. Both seem to work fine. I did purchase v11 of the program to see if it was any better, but I just threw it in the garbage - it seemed as bad or worse that this. The only use I can see for this is food for the nearest dumpster. When 2017 rolls around, I am switching back to either version 2 or version 3. It seems no one who runs a business or who ever has had to write invoices was ever consulted in the creation of this program. If they were consulted, then there was a totally incompetent collection of idiots calling themselves software engineers and programmers. Those responsible for approving the release of either version 10 or 11 should be fired. UPDATE: Periodically getting message that database is corrupt and need to run a non-existant utility to fix - had to restore from backup. I am going to have to revert back to previous version, unfortunately, I will have to manually enter all invoices since I updated. Fortunately, I do not have a large number of invoices. Had an instance of duplicate invoice number created. Would give this no stars or negative stars if that were an option. UPDATE #2: I couldnt deal with this any more. I went back to version 3 and all is well. I still had my old invoice files, so I just updated all the entries and payments. I should have read the reviews before wasting money and time on this version.