TheBigBooper

I switched this year from ATX to Drake, buying Drake at a seminar in July. I had only switched to ATX fully from Lacerte after the 2009 season, keeping Lacerte around for a dozen high end and expensive returns thru out the years, on a PPR after 2009. Based upon what the OP says, I will have to switch another 12 clients with heavy duty depreciation from Drake back to Lacerte I think Drake, by and large, is a superior product over ATX in terms of speed of operation and less clunkiness. Of course Lacerte is vastly more capable then either of these two. I have two clients who work in 15 or more states each year, try that on ATX!

I switched to Drake last summer at one of their free seminars and bought the software at 35% off that day. Late in December I got a call from ATX sales asking why I had not renewed. I mentioned how slow and clunky the 2010 and 21011 ATX versions were and she told me that the 2012 would be much improved. HAH! It is terrifying to read this forum because ATX was slow and time-wasting even with the earlier and better versions. I hated having to select the forms to use with a new client with rentals, Cs, Ds and multi states. And that was with a better functioning 2011 program. After a half dozen Drake returns I can state that Drake is far superior to 2011 ATX not to mention the serious problems reported here on this forum. Before ATX I had used Lacerte and still use it on a PPR basis because ATX couldn't handle a dozen large multi-state returns.lIt appears that Drake might be able toi handle those and will convert the Lacerte files. Yippee!