Purchased Complete 2002

[Holly]

I just purchased Peachtree Complete Accounting 2002 (multi-user) and called to register the product. I bought it because I had to purchase 2002 payroll....peachtree just told me that I must purchase the payroll service in order to receive the updates for 2002. This makes no sense as in the past if it didn't have the current tables they would mail a new disk at no charge. It says 2002. Peachtree says the rules have changed. I see no benefit to most of the annual minor updates, only the payroll. I could have changed them manually. Is this correct or do you know. Thank you, I am not happy as now I have wasted my time or money.

[arcadia2]

The payroll tables in 2002 can be edited the same way they were before: File/Payroll Tax Tables/Edit Global (or Edit Local)

[Diane Koers]

Depending on your installation you may not be able to access the global tax tables at all. If not, however, you can create all the necessary FICA, FIT's etc in the Company folder and PT will calculate them from there.

[Holly]

I have in the past updated my tax tables manually. My problem is that I understand that the forms are changing in 2002 (941, W-2's). I upgraded to version 8 last year and when the tax tables changed they sent me updates in July w/o paying for those new changes. They should call this version 9, not 2002 as it does not provide updated tables....2002 leads one to believe that all would be current for the year of 2002. The changes peachtree makes every year are not really worth purchasing every year, maybe every few years. My mistake, can you tell I am very unhappy. Thinking of returning the product all together. Thanks for any help.

[arcadia2]

Although the Opening Screen says Peachtree 2002 in large letters in smaller letters to the right; it say Release 9. I can manually edit the tables in release 9 in the say way as I updated the tax tables in prior releases. Since I have to edit local tax tables anyway I see no reason to spend $100 (or whatever they are charging now) when it takes only a few minutes to update the tables. With Quickbooks I haven't found a way to update the tax tables without buying their service.

[Holly]

Thank you for your help.