Overall Rating for CheckSoft
POOR
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Features:
CheckSoft is designed to organize finances, and allow the end user to design custom business checks to be printed with MICR toner. The software will do the MICR printing needed to take checks by phone and fax, then create a draft for deposit, but it is very poorly designed. It has the ability to print business and personal checks, payroll checks and to create custom checks with logos and designs. It claims to work with Quicken and Quickbooks but did not work with mine. It does have reporting, and an import feature that work well. It does not do monthly billing or manage your customer payments.
Ease of Use
The software is not easy to use. As it is sold retail there are tons of other online reviews of this software. It was not just me, it was apparently everyone who ever purchased this product, then returned it to Staples or Office Max. Many of the functions like linking with Quickbooks do not work and the check design features are laborious. It is not good to use for payment software, or for check design software.
How It Works at the Bank
The checks and drafts that this software can eventually produce work with desktop deposit, the self scan "no envelope" ATMs and for deposit with the bank teller without jacketing manual entry. The one thing the software does do is print Check 21 compliant and ANSII conforming items.
Installation Ease
I did not have an issue with my XP machine and the software installed without any problems. It is not designed for Windows 7 as of the purchase I made on January 3, 2012.
Help and Support
Their support is 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. eastern time I found out from the publisher's site, but if you call it just keeps telling you you are calling outside of regular hours.
The Full Picture
I reviewed this software because it was on the shelf at Staples next to VersaCheck and was available online everywhere I looked. Also available online, unlike most of the other products reviewed here, are tons of other reviews that overwhelming support my own rating of "TERRIBLE".
