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Holistic Guidance - G7 Productivity VC08-2791 Versacheck Gold 2008
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Our Price: $69.99
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: G7 Productivity
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: G7 Productivity
EAN: 0814329112791
Feature: Unlimited phone support from VersaCheck experts after product validation
Format: CD-ROM
Label: G7 Productivity
Manufacturer: G7 Productivity
Platform: Windows XP Professional
Publisher: G7 Productivity
Studio: G7 Productivity
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Features
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Unlimited phone support from VersaCheck experts after product validation
Auto correction/generation of bank addresses/fractional routing numbers
One-pass check printing from Quicken, Quickbooks and Money
Check Designer Pro - Unlimited Design Capabilities
Create drafts and checks by phone and fax
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Editorial Reviews:
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TrueSign digitized & and password optimized signature power, 4X UltraSaver software - print more checks & documents, NEW Supply Tracker - helps manage everything in your check writing system and Print-4-Cash rewards program let's you earn cash back toward supplies & free upgrades. TrueSign secure eSignature creator and manager Schedule your bill payments Checks sent by email feature Financial reports for home and business Create personal and business-size checks American CheckBooks templates & refills included Includes 150 blank checks System Requirements - IBM or compatible Pentium II 266 (Pentium II 300 recommended), 120 MB hard disk space plus 45 MB for Microsoft Internet Explorer if IE 6.0 or higher is not already installed (IE 6.0 included is on enclosed CD-ROM), Min 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended), 2x (or faster) CD-ROM, VGA or SVGA monitor, Windows (98, 2000/Me, 2003, XP SP2, Vista), Windows-compatible mouse, laser or inkjet printer, Internet access required for online features
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Better Than the Alternative-- Barely
Comment: I have very fond memories of my first Versacheck program. You had the program, you had the check paper, you designed your checks, you printed them. Then we changed computers, lost the usage key and decided to upgrade so our bookkeeper could print directly from Quickbooks. At that time the only program available locally was a competitor. After a couple of years I had problems and if you search my reviews you can find my experience with the competitors' customer's service.
Now I'm back and the only real advantage I see if that I haven't had to use customer service yet.
Easy to set up, it does print directly from Quickbooks Pro. It does not require that anyone use the paper from Versa check, although the program indicates that if you don't use their magnetic ink and their check stock that they do not guarantee some level of support. Whether or not you are using their paper involves the entry of an authorization number that comes with the check paper and ink. I was leary of ink cartridge compatibility problems-- oh, yes, I've been around that barn before!-- so I took them up on their "free (inkjet) printer with purchase" offer thinking I would keep the printer dedicated to check use. I don't have it set up yet but I'm working on getting my bookkeeper to accept the idea--
Customer Rating:
Summary: VersaCheck Not So Versatile
Comment: I've used VersaCheck for a long time, beginning with the 2000 edition. The product has always been extremely difficult to use and has almost no support from the publisher. I've managed to develop work-arounds for nearly all of the weird or frustrating behavior of the program, continuing to use it because it is a much lower-cost solution for printing small business checks than Quicken. The product also supports check safety features and [supposedly] postal address features that Quicken does not provide.
I've been locked in a totally unproductive struggle with Customer Support for almost four months over the matter of printing postal bar codes. It is my assertion that since VersaCheck does print bar codes when it is used as the checkbook for a business, it also should print bar codes when intercepting a print data stream from Quicken that contains a correct ZIP+4 code. It took nearly two months before VersaCheck Customer Support would acknowledge that the program would not print postal bar codes with Quicken check data. During that time, all responses to my support requests were the same: a brief tutorial on how to print from Quicken, totally ignoring my issue.
Eventually I developed a work-around that partially works, by importing a QIF file from Quicken (a function which receives several pages of treatment in the Help files!) Unfortunately, that also deletes entries from the VersaCheck address book, necessitating manual editing of each payee address every time a check is printed for a payee. Instead of acknowledging that QIF file importing was not working properly, it took six weeks to obtain a response that said "...newer versions of Quicken do not support QIF files." Duh! Quicken 2007 certainly DOES export QIF files for other programs. You'd think that for a product which is supposed to integrate with Quicken, the developers and Customer Support might actually have used the products.
Also in the 2008 version, there is a new metered usage scheme for printing checks... after you've exhausted the licensed count, you must pay G7 Productivity Systems a fee to unlock the program so you can print more! This seriously changes the economics of using the program.
Other annoyances include: A much-touted feature is the verification of US addresses against a commercial ZIP+4 code database--but without warning, the service was terminated in August 2007. Their high-capacity magnetic ink toner cartridges do NOT work successfully with several H-P printers in common use, as as the G85 All-in-One series and the DeskJet 870 and 890 series, but once the cartridges are opened and tried (unsuccessfully) in one of those printers, G7 will not accept returns. Once I received a package from G7 containing a purchased new version of the program which had an old CD in the package: G7 refused to accept a return as the CD envelope had been opened. In another instance the package label and documentation contained an INVALID serial number and G7 refused to accept a return. In both these cases, I had to pay an upgrade fee to get a current CD and serial number.
Summary: the program is difficult to setup properly to use with small business checks, especially if you wish to include logos. Help files are almost useless except for the simplest How-To entries. Despite misleading packaging and product descriptions, the product does not print postal bar codes for checks written with Quicken. Customer Support of the product is essentially non-existent, based on their total unresponsiveness to my issues. G7 quality control on software development, product packaging, and supplies is atrociously bad.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great concept, but
Comment: In concept, this is a great product especially for people that move a bit and have to constantly order new checks. In previous versions of this product, you bought the software and a box of blank check paper and printed at will, thereby changing your address as necessary. Unfortunately, someone at G7 decided to limit your use - for thier profit - with this version you can only print 150 checks, then you have to "buy" authorization for another batch of checks. This totally negates the ability to buy a box of check paper and print checks as required.
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