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Checksoft 2007 Premier | 
 enlarge | From: Avanquest
Category: Software
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $29.97
You Save: $40.02 (57%)
New (4) Used (2) from $27.95
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 6637
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 8.8 x 1.6
MPN: 3434
Model: 3435
UPC: 018059034341
EAN: 0018059034358
ASIN: B000HQTR88
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | NEW! Create Check Drafts for Instant Deposit | | | NEW! Process Credit Card Payments | | | NEW! Multi-user capability | | | Manage Purchase Orders & Inventory | | | Import Online Bank Data |
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Product Description
Looking to reduce your check printing costs, effectively manage your business finances, bill your customers, and quickly adjust to the needs of your business as it grows? Turn to Checksoft Premier. It allows you to easily design and print business and payroll checks, track cash flow, schedule bills, create invoices, and collect payments faster with check drafts and credit card processing. With Checksoft Premier, you save you up to 80% on your check related expenses. Checksoft Premier allows you to: 1) Print checks concurrently with other users using the same design file. 2) Quickly and easily design and print business and payroll checks. 3) Save time by creating custom checks for multiple accounts and banks. 4) Eliminate waste with pre-printed checks no need to order new checks when you change your personal or business contact information. 5) Save up to 80% using Checksoft compatible check stock. 6) Print checks from the most popular accounting software QuickBooks Basic & Pro, QuickBooks Premier Editions, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Small Business Accounting, Quicken, and more. 7) Collect payments faster with check drafts. 8) Track cash flow and schedule bills. 9) Create invoices and estimates. 10) Generate purchase orders and manage inventory. 11) Process credit card payments. 12) Analyze your business with custom reports. 13) Import and reconcile your data from your bank, credit card company, and accounting software Quicken, VersaCheck, and Microsoft Money. 14) Manage your payables efficiently with the Bill Scheduler. Streamline your check writing and printing with Check Designer. Multiple users can print checks concurrently using the same design file. You can purchase additional licenses to fit the needs of your business. Checksoft Premier supports up to 10 simultaneous users. Easily setup your business and personal checking, savings, and credit card accounts in minutes.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Really, Really Bad Customer Service February 26, 2008
Sires (It's a Toss Up Right Now)
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 person's 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 father's 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 don't 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.
 Talk to Your Bank Before You Buy June 22, 2007
G. Miles (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 recipient's bank? You can use Checksoft 2007 Premier to develop beautiful, graphically-alive checks. You can print them on any good-quality printer. But don't 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.
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| Worthwhile Reading | Myths and Realities about Working Longer
Alicia H. Munnell and Steven Sass. 2008. “Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge.” Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
For more information, contact Andrew Eschtruth at 617-552-1729 or eschtrut@bc.edu.
Myth: Given the growing retirement income challenge, people will have to work forever.
Reality: If individuals worked full time until at least 66, they could enjoy a long and financially secure retirement, with incomes one-third higher than if they retired at 62.
Myth: Older workers will choose to work longer on their own.
Reality: Most people retire as soon as benefits are available at age 62.
Myth: As baby boomers approach retirement, employers will embrace older workers.
Reality: Many employers are lukewarm toward retaining older workers due to concerns that they cost too much, lack current skills, and don’t plan to stick around long.
Myth: Employers will quickly change their tune in response to labor shortages.
Reality: Many employers with a high proportion of older workers are in declining industries. Others can tap global labor markets.
Myth: Older workers have little to offer employers.
Reality: Older workers often have advantages over younger workers — including higher productivity, better judgment, a stronger work ethic, and better people skills.
Myth: Phased retirement — shifting to part-time employment with a career employer — is the solution for keeping people in the workforce longer.
Reality: Many firms are reluctant to offer phased retirement due to concerns over which workers would be eligible, health insurance costs, and part-time schedules.
Myth: Most workers can work longer by remaining with their career employer.
Reality: Career employment is declining fast — only 44 percent of male workers age 58-62 are still with their age-50 employer, down from 70 percent two decades ago.
Myth: The working longer prescription is the answer for everyone.
Reality: While today’s older workers are generally healthier and better educated, up to a third could be hard pressed to work into their mid-60s due to poor health or job prospects.
Myth: Government cannot do much to encourage longer work lives.
Reality: Raising Social Securitys earliest eligibility age of 62 could push back the work-retirement divide by changing the mindset of both workers and employers.
Myth: Eliminating mandatory retirement removed a major barrier to working longer.
Reality: Mandatory retirement could actually promote longer work lives by providing both employers and workers clear expectations about when careers end.
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| | Retirement Facts | | Whether a worker is offered and participates in a retirement plan at work depends greatly on what type of worker the person is:
• Public-sector workers have the highest level of participation in a retirement plan (75.8% in 2004), while parttime workers typically are not offered a retirement plan or rarely participate when they are.
• Among all workers, less than half (41.9% in 2004) participate in a retirement plan.
• Among full-time, full-year wage and salary workers, more than half (56.6% in 2004) participate in a retirement plan.
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