On May 21, 2019 at 10:49, Techsquad said...
Really I don't think Portal is the only proposal software in the world, we have gone through several others before adopting Portal.
Good for you that your dtools is paid for and setup the way you like and working for you. My only point is, if Portal is not for you ( I don't mean you - goldenzrule .. i mean all the people condemning Portal ) just don't use it anymore.
For my needs, it's a great platform and they deserve my appreciation. Despite the bugs that needs to be worked on, I am a strong believer that the more people appreciating their work and supporting them, the better they will be. And as for the Quickbooks that i mentioned, i assumed folks like you that had been paying for dtools or other paid estimating software wouldn't be using portal anyhow... but sorry if sounded condescending to you. It was certainly not my intention at all. I am here to contribute and learn.
The path that took me to using portal was due to a computer hardware failure that also happened to take out my backup NAS drive. I wasn't using cloud backups at that time. So I started using portal as I had to resetup dtools. It didn't take all that long but I just never bothered as portal was free at the time and handled mainly what I needed. As the software changed and bugs were introduced, it became an issue. The final straw for me was portal shutting my account off in the manner they did. It's not even worth a phone call to them. I'm done with them and moved on.
