I'm a long time ATX customer, and switched to TRX this year and have had horrible problems with installation. As I'm trying to install this TRX 2009 software AGAIN I get a call from ATX offering me the Max software free of charge in order to retain me!!! I'm very lerious, but gave her no info and their seems to be no strings attached! Anybody out their know about strings I should be aware of?
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Originally posted by MLINDER42 View PostI ordered Taxwise thru TRX and I am having big problems.They sent me TRX PRO and can not find out after several calls if I will receive Taxwise or not .I asked for my money back and was refused so as of this moment do not know what I will do for software.
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Same problem you are having. Was with taxwise several years. Trx offered me the package for $300.00. I took it, paid $300.00. Three weeks ago they called and
said they could not honor the taxwise offer. I was a prior customer of Taxwise. They kept the money. I called them but still no help. I wrote a nasty letter to the president of the company. He sent me the TRX software. It is still sitting on my desk. I had to pay taxwise another $300.00 to get their software. My advise, have nothing to do with TRX.
That is what TAXwise advised me that they are going to do next year. arlo
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If you can get a free copy of ATX Max from ATX, why not take it? At least that way you will be assured of tax software that you are familiar with why you try to straighten out this mess. I did not find the ATX software to be that bad and I assume you switched because of price. Give the free software a shot.
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Originally posted by MAMalody View PostIf you can get a free copy of ATX Max from ATX, why not take it? At least that way you will be assured of tax software that you are familiar with why you try to straighten out this mess. I did not find the ATX software to be that bad and I assume you switched because of price. Give the free software a shot.
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Originally posted by Super Mom View PostI'm a long time ATX customer, and switched to TRX this year and have had horrible problems with installation. As I'm trying to install this TRX 2009 software AGAIN I get a call from ATX offering me the Max software free of charge in order to retain me!!! I'm very lerious, but gave her no info and their seems to be no strings attached! Anybody out their know about strings I should be aware of?
I was in same boat, signed on with TRX in order to get my favorite TAxwise for $300,
but we know what happened. And when I got a call from Taxwise (sister company of
ATX, both owned by CCH) it sounded too good to be true; F R E E!
So I took 'em up on it, got Taxwise disks couple of weeks ago, installed, and everything
is hunky dory. This past Monday got the TRX software, opened it up and simply
threw it in the trash can.
I'm happy. At least for another year.ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
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Originally posted by MLINDER42 View PostI ordered Taxwise thru TRX and I am having big problems.They sent me TRX PRO and can not find out after several calls if I will receive Taxwise or not .I asked for my money back and was refused so as of this moment do not know what I will do for software.
Tell them you know of their kind offer to others and gently ask for the same consideration.
And post here how you came out.
Oh, and tell them I sent you.ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
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Originally posted by Super Mom View PostI don't know if this helps or not, but I think a former taxwise customer got basically a free offer from taxwise like mine with ATX. If you do a search on TRX software maybe you can get a name from that person or call taxwise???ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
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I received TaxWise from TRX about two weeks ago. It has been installed with noproblems and runs quite well. I can't imagine the difficulty you are having. Last year's records have carried over quite well.
TRX staff leaves a lots to be desired when you are having problems. If you get someone who doesnt know the software keep calling back until you have a knowledgable person.
It does look that this will be the last year we can get TW from TRX. This scares me but at least I will get through the 2009 tax season.
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Originally posted by Chief View PostI received TaxWise from TRX about two weeks ago. It has been installed with noproblems and runs quite well. I can't imagine the difficulty you are having. Last year's records have carried over quite well.
TRX staff leaves a lots to be desired when you are having problems. If you get someone who doesnt know the software keep calling back until you have a knowledgable person.
It does look that this will be the last year we can get TW from TRX. This scares me but at least I will get through the 2009 tax season.
haven't completely taken the trash out in 30 days, maybe you will see that it came not
from TRX, but from Taxwise directly exactly where mine came from.ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
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TaxWise is having a lot of fun, but I'm not sold on the sale practices.
You can feel TaxWise now getting beat on by all of their competitors. After the death of IntelliTax, there was a huge number of high volume offices that were suddenly thrown into the market to look for something better. If they followed the flow they went to TaxWise, as that's what CCH wanted them to do.
TaxWise failed them, which we all know they would. No matter who you are, you simply cannot expand that quickly without adding resources to learn new material. And every customer regardless of who they used before you is going to have lots of idea that your software is doing stuff wrong, because their old software did it different. Most often they're wrong, their old software did something stupid. But there are things the old software did that were magnificient. So you have to somehow weed out the crap while taking the gold and putting that into your software. It's a hard task. One they were thrown into by their PHBs.
So at this point TaxWise's biggest goal is to not lose too many customers. Normal companies operating quite opposite of that, instead of fear of losign customers you look at how many new customers you're going to have. What your growth is going to be, rather than decay. If anything, I think this whole thing will have put ATX 6 feet under. By 2012 it'll just be a memory. TaxWise is supposed to get overhauled, so they'll have a newer cleaner better product hopefully that they can sell. Get those ATX boys running the worksheets. Forms are dead!
CCH I never see going away. They'll have something, but they don't really care about the individual preparers that they need to function.
All the other companies are living it up. Record growth at every other tax prep company other than CCH owned. You do feel bad for them, but it was their decision. Just doesn't look like they really thought that decision through.
An interesting phone call I received from a TaxWise sales person I assume (because I am no longer wtih them I guess, and they hadme as SBBT). They told me that becuse SBBT was sold I can't offer bank products. So I should give up on my software and come use theirs. Oh, republic is not taking new ERO's either.... So their offer was to ditch my software which I choose for much more than the ability to do a bank product (which can still be done, SBBT didn't die in that way, it's more of a change of structure that does the same product - nobody would ever notice it had changed without someone bringing it up) And then if I take their TaxWise product due to the SBBT fiasco, and assume TaxWise is correct, at best I get free tax software for a year that I absolutely cannot do bank products with.(And I see TaxWise as inferior - dumbed down too much for me. I may not be working for a CPA firm but I don't want all these wizards all over telling me that I put the wages on line 7).
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