Tony Mankus, Review: QuickBooks v. PCLaw in a Law Firm
TechnoLawyer member David Marcelino asks:
"Does anyone out there use QuickBooks for both billing and time entry? I am currently using Timeslips for time entry. Timeslips has frustrated my office. We are tired of the instability."
We used QuickBooks Pro for a number of years for accounting and time-billing. It's accounting and payroll features and interface are intuitive, simple to use, and generally excellent; the time-billing feature was not as good. A number of steps were required to accomplish what we wanted.
It's a generic program written for any type of small businesses and not law firms specifically. (Although a law firm specific version came out about a year ago which we did not try out.) Also their technical support was non-existent, unless you were prepared to pay a hefty support fee.
We switched back to PCLaw which has a better time-billing feature for law firms, though the accounting and payroll features are not as good. Their technical support is excellent. LexisNexis recently purchased PCLaw and we're hoping that their bigger budget will help to make needed improvements.
Tony Mankus, Esq.
Mankus & Marchan, Ltd.
Lisle, IL
[Publisher's Note: Learn more about QuickBooks and PCLaw. — Sara Skiff]
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