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• Create invoices and reports in a flash from more than 100 professionally designed invoices, estimates, statements, and other forms
• Tracks all your financial information in one place, including sales, expenses, and business loans
• Share data with Excel, Word, and Outlook; easily convert Peachtree data to QuickBooks

• Print checks, pay bills, track sales and expenses, and create estimates, invoices, purchase orders, and reports
• Track inventory and set reorder points, download imported bank and credit-card transactions
• Backup to .Mac and add reminders to iCal, import Quicken files to QuickBooks for Mac

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Who's right for Quickbooks Pro 2007 for Mac?
Small business Mac users seeking ways to make their everyday business tasks even easier and save time can benefit from Quickbooks Pro 2007 for Mac. This latest version unleashes the power of both Intel- and Power PC-based Macs, delivering optimal performance and improving productivity. The Layout Designer quickly creates custom forms such as customer estimates, invoices, statements and more. Plus, you can easily create and print deposit slips or summaries. Quickbooks Pro 2007 for Mac offers easier tracking of payments by accepting one customer payment for open invoices across multiple jobs, and you can save time by automatically calculating and keeping track of invoices when a customer has paid in full.

Mac users looking for simpler to use and improved solutions to existing financial software will also find much to like. An interactive Tutorial Center delivers step-by-step instructions on how to get the full benefits of new and improved features. Plus, you get simple, fast, and safe data transfer from existing financial management software to QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac--even from Quicken.

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Save Time
Save time completing routine accounting tasks such as tracking and managing expenses, invoicing, and printing checks. Process your payroll right within QuickBooks using QuickBooks Payroll for Mac. Process your payroll from within QuickBooks using QuickBooks Payroll for Mac. Handle your end-to-end payroll needs, from paychecks to W-2 forms, directly from QuickBooks or any Web browser, anywhere with QuickBooks Payroll for Mac, powered by PayCycle, Inc.

Quickly create estimates, invoices, and purchase orders. Duplicate and edit previous estimates to create new ones without rewriting all the details. When it's time to bill your customer, turn any estimate into an invoice with one click or create a new invoice using a familiar form. You can also track and make payments with ease. Paying vendors is as simple as filling out familiar on-screen checks, printing them, and dropping them in the mail.

Track inventory, set reorder limits and create purchase orders. Track inventory automatically as you log sales, and when it's time to reorder, create a purchase order with one click. Edit as needed and print. Or e-mail the purchase order as a PDF file.

Easily create and print deposit slips in QuickBooks. Select cash or checks to deposit, record cash-back transactions, and print either a deposit summary or slip from your printer.

Stay organized, accurate and on top of your business
Choose from more than 100 standard reports to see where your business stands. Quickly import downloaded bank and credit card transactions. QuickBooks has built-in reporting functionality, making it easier than ever to proactively manage your business. Identify your most profitable customers, see who still owes you money and determine where you money goes in only a few clicks. Print and e-mail reports to work with your accountant.

Save time and avoid data entry errors. Instead of typing in your bank and credit card transactions, download them from more than 1,000 participating financial institutions that support Web Connect and easily import them into QuickBooks. You can also synchronize contacts automatically with OS X Address Book or with any other application that supports Tiger Sync. Update a contact in QuickBooks and Address Book is updated instantly...and vice-versa.

Customize QuickBooks to meet your unique needs
Personalize forms, like estimates, invoices, statements and more, by adding logos, images, and fonts with the new Layout Designer. Create your own customer forms, quickly and easily, with the new Layout Designer. Built for the Mac, it uses familiar tools--like a formatting palette, drag-and-drop interface, and easy-to-use toolbar.

Choose from more than 40 icons to customize your toolbar for quick access to the tasks that you do most often. Resize and reposition the toolbar to fit with how you work. You can also quickly customize reports and graphs. Customize any report to show only the data you want to see. Sort, reorder, or hide columns with a mouse click. Set date ranges and filter as needed. Plus, you can clear the clutter from your customer, vendor, and item lists by deactivating unused items to hide them from view. Sort lists by column to get quick access to critical business data.

Work on the platform you prefer
Get the most out of your Mac by syncing your contacts with Address Book, backing up files to your .Mac account and adding reminders directly to iCal. Easily share your data with your accountant or other Windows-based users. Designed from the ground up by Mac engineers, built for Tiger (Mac OS X v10.4) and now available as a universal application, QuickBooks for Mac operates as you expect and looks as clean as the Mac you run it on. The new universal version runs on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs. You can share your data with your accountant or other Windows-based users, too. Send your QuickBooks data to your Windows-based accountant and open the updated file on your Mac.

New Features, Big Improvements
Gain confidence using step-by-step tutorials in the interactive Tutorial Center. Understand how QuickBooks is organized, learn how to complete everyday business tasks, and understand how to use new features through simple, interactive step-by-step instructions. Get up and running quickly with the New Company Setup Assistant, which allows you to answer a series of simple questions to have QuickBooks tailor itself to your unique business needs.

With Quickbooks, you can now quickly access comprehensive help whenever you need it. The QuickBooks Help feature enables you to simply type a question and quickly receive detailed help, tips, and troubleshooting information right within QuickBooks. You can also easily import data from previous versions of QuickBooks for Mac, QuickBooks for Windows, or Quicken for Mac.

Satisfaction Guaranteed
QuickBooks is the financial-management solution recommended by more accountants than any other, and Intuit guarantees your satisfaction or your money back. Free QuickBooks callback support is also included for 30 days from software registration.

• Provides standard accounting tools and time-saving features to help you manage costs, track change orders, gain insight into job profit, and view job status
• Keep on top of billable hours and subcontractors' insurance coverage
• Recommended for builders, general contractors, remodelers, subcontractors, specialty trade contractors, and more

Movies See how QuickBooks Premier Contactor Edition can help your business succeed QuickBooks Premier Contractor Overview (1:27) New Features (2:44) Understanding Sales Order Workflows (1:35) Quickly Pay Bills and Print Checks (1:35)

Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily.

Easily Get Started

IMPROVED! Import Data from Excel
Excel templates make it easy for you to import your existing customers, vendors, or product information into QuickBooks. You can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding QuickBooks column. Save these settings to use again the next time you want to pull in data. You can even preview your data before you transfer it.

Import Data from Quicken, Peachtree, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Access the Quicken conversion tool in QuickBooks to convert your data from Quicken 1998 through 2007. If you are currently running your business using Peachtree 2001-2008, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006, and Microsoft Office Accounting/ Office Accounting Express, you can also easily convert your data into QuickBooks 2008.

Get Set Up and Running Quickly
Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

NEW! Step by step coaching for new users to help you learn QuickBooks faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The new QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.

Learn QuickBooks Quickly with Built-in Tutorials
Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them--in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.

Upgrade your QuickBooks effortlessly
Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2008. Your company file and preferences will transfer automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Get Help When You Need It

NEW! Find Answers Fast
Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily as you work in QuickBooks, so you can get back to business. You'll find answers to most questions in QuickBooks in-product onscreen Help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.

Enjoy Free QuickBooks support included for 30 days from registration for questions submitted online
Have a question about QuickBooks? Submit your questions online at www.quickbooks.com/contactme. We'll email or call you back usually in 30 minutes or less. No waiting on hold!

Tap into the knowledge of the QuickBooks User Community
Visit the QuickBooks User Community to connect with other QuickBooks users and experts to ask questions and share advice. Search or browse through a variety of discussion topics or post your own question.

View unbilled employee time and expenses in a single screen; transfer to an invoice in one click.

Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions.

Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Customized for Your Contracting Business

Track and print change orders on estimates
QuickBooks lets you create estimates quickly and easily. As the job changes, simply enter change orders into the estimate so that you can keep track of the changes, and the impact on the bottom line. Change orders are included on documents you print for your customer so that there are no surprises at the end of the job.

Job Costing Center quickly shows individual job costs
Check the Job Costing Center for an instant reading of how you're doing on your current jobs. See a summary of key information for your jobs, all in a single window.

Track job profitability as you pay suppliers, subcontractors and employees
Contractor Edition job cost reports give you the insight you need to run your business more effectively and efficiently. Use these customized reports to see a job's profitability on a detailed, task-by-task level. You can even see the projected cost to complete a job.

Track the expiration dates of your subcontractors' insurance
Track the expiration dates of your subcontractors' workmen's compensation and general liability insurance. Alerts in QuickBooks notify you when a subcontractor's insurance has expired.

Set billing rates by employee and service type
QuickBooks provides the flexibility of setting different billing rates by employee and service type. You can set a fixed hourly rate for each employee or create custom hourly rates by service.

Create key reports, like Job Costs to Complete and Billed/Unbilled Hours, in two clicks
QuickBooks comes with more than 120 pre-designed, customizable business reports, including Contractor-specific reports. A Report Navigator that makes it easy to choose the right one. Stay on top of your company's finances by creating key reports, like:

• Job Status
• Job Costs by Vendor and Job Summary
• Job Costs by Job
• Job Cost Detail
• Cost to Complete
• Unpaid Bills by Job
• Unpaid Job Bills Billed/Unbilled Hours
• Open Purchase Orders by Vendor
• Customer Account Information

IMPROVED! View unbilled employee time and expenses in a single screen; transfer to an invoice in one click
Now you can decide who to bill by seeing all clients with unbilled time and expenses on a single screen. Instead of creating an invoice from scratch, simply open the Invoice for Time and Expenses screen and select the client and job combination. Outstanding billable time and expenses are transferred directly to an invoice.

Plan for the future by creating a business plan and sales and expense forecasts
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel for further analysis or save it as a PDF file. Click a button to create a forecast of income and expenses for the coming year, based on your existing QuickBooks data. Increase or decrease line items by any percentage to adjust for future changes.

Access your QuickBooks data from any secure Internet connection
Access your financial data even when you're not in the office by using QuickBooks Remote Access, powered by WebEx. All you need is an Internet-connected PC. All transmissions are protected by encryption technology used by financial institutions.

Save Time on Everyday Tasks

Easily track and pay bills; set due date reminders
Record bills as they arrive directly from the QuickBooks homepage. Never mistakenly miss a bill due date - QuickBooks will alert you with due date reminders. And when you are ready to pay bills, QuickBooks shows you all bills that are outstanding.

Quickly create estimates & invoices
When it's time to bill your customer, turn any estimate into an invoice with one click. Choose from dozens of pre-designed QuickBooks templates, or send the key invoice data to a customizable Microsoft Word document.

NEW! Send estimates, invoices & reports directly from QuickBooks using MS Outlook or Outlook Express
Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Download credit card and bank statements
Download cleared checks, deposits, and credit card transactions into QuickBooks to save time on data entry and reconciliation.

See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer with Customer Center.

Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments with Vendor Center.

See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid in Employee Center.

Stay Organized and on Top of Your Business

Organize data all in one place with Customer, Vendor, and Employee Centers

• Customer Center
  Follow up on past-due accounts and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer.
• Vendor Center
  Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments. Check your account status to avoid incurring late charges. Initiate new payments or purchase orders with one click.
• Employee Center
  See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid.

Track sales, sales taxes, and customer payments
Easily record sales and create sales receipts for your customers. Set up sales tax codes, and QuickBooks will automatically charge sales tax on all invoices, sales receipts, and other sales forms. When it's time to pay sales tax to your local sales tax board, QuickBooks will also help you figure out how much you owe.

Track employee time and expenses to bill clients
Track time by employee, service, and customer with timesheets in QuickBooks. When you select a client to bill, QuickBooks automatically reminds you of unbilled time and expenses for that client.

Easily export or enter data into TurboTax, or send to your accountant
Be ready for tax time. QuickBooks helps you assign each account in your Chart of Accounts to a specific line on tax forms, so all income and expenses are accurately categorized. Easily export your tax data into TurboTax or provide your accountant accurate data to simplify the tax process.

Efficiently Manage Employees and Contract Workers

Manage payroll and payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit (paid subscription required)
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel and save it as a PDF file.

Prepare and print 1099s & 1096s for contract workers & federal filing
The QuickBooks 1099 and 1096 wizard will walk you through all the steps to create and print tax forms for you and your independent contractors.

Manage Products, Services, and Inventory

Track inventory, set reorder points, and create purchase orders
Easily track your raw materials and finished goods to avoid overbuying and backorders. Import your inventory from Excel or record directly in QuickBooks. You can even indicate re-order points for each inventory good and turn on reminders to automatically let you know when its time to reorder. Create and customize purchase orders directly from the Home Page, and automatically receive against P.O.s when recording bills.

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact.

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Word documents.

Easily share your accounting records with your accountant.

Flexibility to Work the Way You Want

Export company data to Excel spreadsheets
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create letters with Word using customer data
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create and customize professional-looking forms
Create professional-looking forms by choosing from more than 100 expertly designed forms, including invoices, estimates, and sales receipts. Or create one for yourself in Microsoft® Word. You can also customize the templates by adding your company logo and tag line to present your business uniquely to your customers.

IMPROVED! Allow your accountant to review data & make changes while you work.
Easily share your accounting records with your accountant. Increase your productivity by allowing your accountant to review historical data and make changes while you work. Seamlessly import your accountant's changes back into your file for improved accuracy.

Easily map and obtain directions to your saved customer, vendor and employee addresses--right from within QuickBooks!
Open up any record in the Customer, Vendor and Employee centers to access links to maps and directions to customer and vendor locations or employee addresses.

Other Tools to Meet Your Business Needs

Print checks and forms directly from QuickBooks to keep better, more accurate records while also saving time

• Accurate records: All your information will be updated and stored in QuickBooks.
• Save time: Three out of four QuickBooks customers save at least one-half the time printing checks vs. handwriting them.
• Check out our deposit slips, envelopes, tax forms, invoices, stamps, and labels - all designed to work with QuickBooks.

We guarantee your checks will work with QuickBooks and your printer, and they will be accepted by any financial institution in the United States-or we will refund or replace your order within 60 days of purchase.

Save time by accepting all major credit cards and debit cards with QuickBooks Merchant Services
Built into your QuickBooks software, QuickBooks Merchant Services is easy to set up and use. No new hardware, software, or phone lines are required. When you make a sale, the data is automatically recorded in QuickBooks. QuickBooks Merchant Services requires no additional data-entry, and you won't waste hours searching for errors. You can process sales on screens you already know and use. Reconcile quickly, without headaches. This credit card processing from QuickBooks has no teaser rates, no hidden fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts.

Keep track of your inventory and customer information while you ring up sales
QuickBooks Point of Sale software and hardware save you the time and trouble of doing it yourself, making it easier to focus on the products and services that will keep your customers coming back. Pair Point of Sale with QuickBooks financial software and you can transfer sales information to your financial software-in one click.

NEW! Quickly capture billable hours online and from Outlook Calendar
Free 60-day trial! Time Tracker is the simplest way to track and record employee and contractor time in QuickBooks. Your employees can track their hours from anywhere, using a timesheet on the Web and, now by designating meetings, emails, and appointments in their Outlook calendar for billing! You can download an entire set of timesheets into QuickBooks with one click. Administrators can review and edit timesheets before submitting to ensure accuracy, as well as run custom reports on submitted time.

Meet key business needs with third-party software found at QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace
Find industry-specific solutions that work with QuickBooks and help solve your unique business challenges including specialized inventory and order management, scheduling, document management, multiple billing rates, complex estimating, and project management.

QuickBooks Premier Contractor Edition Reports

Exclusive reports
Premier Contractor Edition's reports give you insight into both your jobs and your business. Learn which jobs are profitable, and which parts of the job are profitable. See how much it will cost to complete a job. Identify expenses that need to be assigned to jobs, and much more!

• Job Profitability Detail
  See which parts of the job are money-makers, and where you need to keep a tight lid on costs.
• Expenses Not Assigned to a Job
  Contractor Edition immediately identifies costs that need to be assigned to a job. With a click, you can classify them properly so you get paid every dollar you're due.
• Cost to Complete by Job Detail
  See how much it will cost you to complete a job. This report also shows you how you're doing compared to your estimated costs, and the expected cost to complete each task.
• Job Estimates vs. Actuals Detail
  Accurate estimating is one of the keys to success for any contractor. With Contractor Edition, you'll be able to compare your actual job costs to your estimated costs, either at a summary level for all jobs, or at a detailed level for a particular job.
• Job Status
  Keep your job status information in one place. See where you stand on each job you've bid so you know what your pipeline of new projects looks like, and whether or not you can take on new business.
• Job Costs by Job and Vendor Summary
  You can run reports to see your job costs by vendor, and which vendors still need to be paid.
• Billed/Unbilled Hours by Person and Activity
  With Contractor Edition, you will always know where you stand on billable hours. Reports immediately identify which hours have been billed, which haven't, and which hours are unbillable. See data by person, by person and job, or by person and activity.

• Lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently
• Simple to learn and use--get up and running in 15 minutes
• When your business grows, existing data converts easily into higher-end editions of QuickBooks

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QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack combines bookkeeping software with essential tools for your small business. It's the simplest way to track sales and expenses.

• Getting started quickly with easy-to-use software and a step-by-step training CD that teaches you the basic accounting knowledge
• Easily keep track of money coming in and going out of your business
• Organize customer and vendor information all in one software program--so nothing slips through the cracks
• No more switching between spreadsheets and paper files, data is organized and easy to find.
• Automatically track tax-related income and expenses
• Essential reports on profit and loss, sales and expenses, are instantly generated based on transactions you've already entered.
• Easily import your existing financial data from Microsoft Excel
• Project a professional image with 250 Standard or Voucher Checks
• Protect your financial data and important files from computer virus', loss or disaster with 1 year QuickBooks Online Backup Service
• 30 days of Simple Start email support included
• Guaranteed easy, or your money back.

From the simple desktop to the familiar forms and helpful guidance, everything works just the way you want it to.

Simple Start's onscreen forms look like the checks, invoices, and sales receipts you use in your business every day.

Simple to Get Started. Simple to Use.
Answer three easy questions, and you're up and running.

It's incredibly simple
Simple Start isn't someone else's idea of how you'd like your business to run-it's your idea. We listened to hundreds of small business owners talk about their difficulties and desires. You'll see what we mean, as soon as you try it. From the simple desktop to the familiar forms and helpful guidance, everything works just the way you want it to.

Import data from Microsoft Excel
If you've been using Excel spreadsheets to track your sales and expenses, now you can import your existing data from Excel directly into Simple Start. You'll save time and avoid the hassle of manually entering your data.

Get up and running in three easy steps
Simple Start is so easy to use, you don't need a thick manual-just a QuickStart card that tells you how to get started in three easy steps. You'll be up and running in less than 15 minutes:

1. Insert the CD into your CD drive.
2. Answer three easy questions to customize Simple Start for your needs.
3. Start working.

No accounting knowledge needed!
Simple Start's onscreen forms look like the checks, invoices, and sales receipts you use in your business every day. The moment you see them, you'll know how to use them.

Get everything you need, and nothing you don't
Simple Start lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently, but it doesn't overwhelm you with tools you won't use and shouldn't have to pay for.

As your business grows, QuickBooks has a full line of small business financial software to meet your needs. It's easy to upgrade from either edition of Simple Start to QuickBooks: Pro, Premier, or Online Edition.

Simple Start organizes everything from customers and vendors, to sales, estimates, and invoices, to receipts, deposits, checks, and expenses---all in one place.

Valuable business tools and services
Essential tools to help you manage your small business better including: a training CD, 250 checks, and online backup service.

Get up to speed quickly with the Learning Accounting Essentials training CD

• Learn accounting basics with easy-to-understand terminology.
• See how to set up Simple Start so you'll track sales and expenses correctly.
• Get step-by-step instructions on how to use Simple Start to perform basic tasks including invoicing customers, receiving payments, paying bills, and running reports.

Protect your financial data with QuickBooks Online Backup Service

• Receive a 1 year subscription to the service with 1GB of storage.
• Schedule automatic backups so you don't have to worry about data loss.
• Protect your critical data from computer viruses, natural disasters, and more.
• Access your files quickly and easily from any PC with an Internet connection using this Internet-based service.

Project a professional image with 250 Standard or Voucher Checks

• Save time compared to hand-writing checks.
• Project a more professional image for your business.
• Use checks with your printer and Simple Start software.

Grows with your business
It's easy to move up from Simple Start to more advanced QuickBooks products.

Simple Start grows with your business
As your business grows, QuickBooks has a full line of small business financial software to meet your needs. It's easy to upgrade from either edition of Simple Start to QuickBooks: Pro, Premier, or Online Edition. All the information you enter into Simple Start can be automatically transferred to your new version of QuickBooks.

Note: Simple Start is for new QuickBooks users. Simple Start cannot import data from prior versions of QuickBooks: Basic, Pro or Premier Editions, Quicken, or Peachtree.

Trust the solution recommended by businesses and accountant
With 3 million users, QuickBooks is the most widely used small business accounting software. It's recommended by accountants over any other product. A 10-year history of continuous improvement assures you of the simplest, most flexible software for your business.

Simple Start keeps track of tax-related income and expenses year-round as you write checks and receive payments, so there's no need to scramble at tax time.

You'll always know where your business stands with Simple Start's reports.

Choose from sales receipt, invoice, estimate, and credit memo form templates that you can customize to help you present a branded, professional image.

Learn Simple Start features quickly with in-product tutorials that let you practice essential tasks until you're ready to do them on your own.

Track Sales, Expenses, and Customers in One Place
Simple Start makes it easy to track the money coming in and going out of your business.

Keep everything together in one place
Stop digging through piles of paper, switching applications, or searching through files to find the information you need. Simple Start organizes everything from customers and vendors, to sales, estimates, and invoices, to receipts, deposits, checks, and expenses--all in one place.

Create estimates, invoices, and sales receipts
With Simple Start you can easily create professional-looking estimates, invoices, and sales receipts just by entering information into simple forms. No more toggling back and forth between spreadsheets and a word processor to create bills and track them. To save you even more time, you can easily turn an estimate into an invoice, or an invoice into a payment.

Record your expenses quickly and painlessly
Tired of rustling through check registers and credit card statements to see where your money is going? Use Simple Start to write checks and track your expenses. Every time you pay a bill, Simple Start keeps your records up-to-date so you'll know where you stand.

Manage payroll within QuickBooks and save time (additional fees apply)
QuickBooks Payroll services help make your payroll easier and more accurate. They offer automatic calculations, the latest tax tables and forms, at-a-glance screens to manage activities, and built-in Direct Deposit.

QuickBooks Payroll is a subscription-based service that works right inside QuickBooks, so there's no double-entry, and nothing new to learn.

Accept credit cards in Simple Start
Everything you need to accept credit transactions is in Simple Start. There's no need to buy additional hardware or software. Credit card sales are automatically processed as you enter them in Simple Start, so all your financial information is organized in one place.

Complete and accurate records at tax time
Make tax time a snap when all of your information is organized. No last-minute panic!

Get the numbers you need
Simple Start keeps track of tax-related income and expenses year-round as you write checks and receive payments, so there's no need to scramble at tax time.

The "Income Tax Summary" report helps you complete federal income tax forms. Print it out, and copy the totals to Schedule C and other tax forms. You can also give the report to your account or download the numbers into TurboTax, the best-selling tax preparation software (sold separately).

One more click creates your "Sales Tax Due," which summarizes the sales tax you owe to your city, state, or county tax boards. It's really that simple.

Know exactly where your business stands
Instantly create reports on profit & loss, sales, expenses, unpaid invoices, and more.

Essential business information at your fingertips
You'll always know where your business stands with Simple Start's reports. See who owes you money and how much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Click on any item in the report to zoom in for the details-all the way down to individual transactions.

Look more professional and save time
Spend less time on your bookkeeping and paperwork and more time building your business.

Professional-looking templates you can customize
Choose from sales receipt, invoice, estimate, and credit memo form templates that you can customize to help you present a branded, professional image. You can change styles, colors, and fonts. You can show or hide fields. You can even include your company logo!

Calculate totals accurately and automatically
No more erasing and rewriting totals or double-checking calculations. Simple Start helps keep your transactions and records accurate by doing all the math for you, including sales tax, discounts, and markups. If you change a transaction, any figures linked to it update instantly.

Re-use information instead of retyping it
Type information about a customer, vendor, or product one time, and never type it again. Enter the first few letters on any invoice, check, or other form and Simple Start fills the rest in automatically. Easily create new estimates by duplicating and editing existing ones. And when you finish a job, click a button to turn your estimate into an invoice. Billing has never been so easy!

We're here to help
Whether you're a do-it-yourselfer or you prefer to call in the experts, you'll find the answer you're looking for in our various help and support resources.

Free e-mail support for the first 30 days
Get personalized help for the first 30 days after you register the product. Simply go online to submit your question, and a support expert will e-mail you back. It's included with Simple Start-at no extra charge.

Free installation, upgrade, and error message assistance
If you ever have trouble installing or upgrading your software or if you need help with a QuickBooks specific error message, we're happy to offer you free support.

Two-minute tutorials and help screens
Learn Simple Start features quickly with in-product tutorials that let you practice essential tasks until you're ready to do them on your own. While you're working, you can get quick answers from the onscreen help.

Online Knowledge Base and User Community
You can search our online Knowledge Base to find answers and helpful tips any hour of the day or night. Or, visit the QuickBooks User Community to connect with other QuickBooks users and experts to ask questions and share advice.

Local QuickBooks Experts
Find a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who can help you get set up and provide accounting advice tailored to your business. (Fees may apply.) Learn More

Paid Support
Get round-the-clock access to technical support experts who can answer your QuickBooks questions. (Fees apply.)

• Create invoices and reports in a flash from more than 100 professionally designed invoices, estimates, statements, and other forms
• Tracks all your financial information in one place, including sales, expenses, and business loans
• Provides access for 3 users, with the option to buy up to 2 additional single licenses

Easily track sales and expenses. Quickly create your own professional-looking custom forms such as customer estimated, invoices and reports by using any of the over 100 included templates. Share your data with programs like Word and Excel.

With QuickBooks Pro 3-User, you'll spend less time on routine tasks and more time on business.

Easily Get Started

Top 5 Reasons To Use Pro-3-User Edition 1. Save time by enabling up to three people to work simultaneously on your QuickBooks files 2. Increase productivity and reduce errors by ensuring your employees are accessing and using the most up-to-date data in your QuickBooks files 3. Expand the number of QuickBooks users as your business grows. Provide access to your QuickBooks files for up to three people right away. As your business grows further, you can add up to two additional users for a slight fee (for a total of five users) 4. Set individual access levels for each employee by allowing certain permissions within your QuickBooks file 5. Manage only one license number for all your QuickBooks users Movies See how QuickBooks Pro can help your business succeed. Pro Edition Overview (2:13) New Features (2:44) Quickly Pay Bills and Print Checks (0:51) Invoice a Customer and Apply Payments (1:17)

Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily.

Easily Get Started

IMPROVED! Import Data from Excel
Excel templates make it easy for you to import your existing customers, vendors, or product information into QuickBooks. You can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding QuickBooks column. Save these settings to use again the next time you want to pull in data. You can even preview your data before you transfer it.

Import Data from Quicken, Peachtree, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Access the Quicken conversion tool in QuickBooks to convert your data from Quicken 1998 through 2007. If you are currently running your business using Peachtree 2001-2008, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006, and Microsoft Office Accounting/ Office Accounting Express, you can also easily convert your data into QuickBooks 2008.

Get Set Up and Running Quickly
Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

NEW! Step by step coaching for new users to help you learn QuickBooks faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The new QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.

Learn QuickBooks Quickly with Built-in Tutorials
Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them--in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.

Upgrade your QuickBooks effortlessly
Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2008. Your company file and preferences will transfer automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Get Help When You Need It

NEW! Find Answers Fast
Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily as you work in QuickBooks, so you can get back to business. You'll find answers to most questions in QuickBooks in-product onscreen Help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.

Enjoy Free QuickBooks support included for 30 days from registration for questions submitted online
Have a question about QuickBooks? Submit your questions online at www.quickbooks.com/contactme. We'll email or call you back usually in 30 minutes or less. No waiting on hold!

Tap into the knowledge of the QuickBooks User Community
Visit the QuickBooks User Community to connect with other QuickBooks users and experts to ask questions and share advice. Search or browse through a variety of discussion topics or post your own question.

Choose from dozens of pre-designed QuickBooks templates, or send the key invoice data to a customizable Microsoft Word document.

Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Save Time on Everyday Tasks

Easily track and pay bills; set due date reminders
Record bills as they arrive directly from the QuickBooks homepage. Never mistakenly miss a bill due date--QuickBooks will alert you with due date reminders. And when you are ready to pay bills, QuickBooks shows you all bills that are outstanding.

Track inventory assemblies and finished goods
Let QuickBooks track your raw materials and finished goods to avoid overbuying and backorders. Combine them in the appropriate quantities to create "finished goods" items. Each time you log a sale or complete a work order, QuickBooks deducts materials as it increases finished goods. Instantly see how many assemblies you can build with current stock.

Quickly create estimates & invoices
When it's time to bill your customer, turn any estimate into an invoice with one click. Choose from dozens of pre-designed QuickBooks templates, or send the key invoice data to a customizable Microsoft Word document.

NEW! Send estimates, invoices & reports directly from QuickBooks using MS Outlook or Outlook Express
Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Download credit card and bank statements
Download cleared checks, deposits, and credit card transactions into QuickBooks to save time on data entry and reconciliation.

See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer with Customer Center.

Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments with Vendor Center.

See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid in Employee Center.

Stay Organized and on Top of Your Business

Organize data all in one place with Customer, Vendor, and Employee Centers

• Customer Center
  Follow up on past-due accounts and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer.
• Vendor Center
  Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments. Check your account status to avoid incurring late charges. Initiate new payments or purchase orders with one click.
• Employee Center
  See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid.

Track sales, sales taxes, and customer payments
Easily record sales and create sales receipts for your customers. Set up sales tax codes, and QuickBooks will automatically charge sales tax on all invoices, sales receipts, and other sales forms. When it's time to pay sales tax to your local sales tax board, QuickBooks will also help you figure out how much you owe.

Track employee time and expenses to bill clients
Track time by employee, service, and customer with timesheets in QuickBooks. When you select a client to bill, QuickBooks automatically reminds you of unbilled time and expenses for that client.

Easily export or enter data into TurboTax, or send to your accountant
Be ready for tax time. QuickBooks helps you assign each account in your Chart of Accounts to a specific line on tax forms, so all income and expenses are accurately categorized. Easily export your tax data into TurboTax or provide your accountant accurate data to simplify the tax process.

Create 100+ customizable reports, like Profit & Loss Statements and sales reports, in two clicks
QuickBooks comes with more than 100 pre-designed, customizable business reports and a Report Navigator that makes it easy to choose the right one. Create reports,like your Profit and Loss statement and Balance Sheet in two clicks. Plus, you can get the totals you need for tax forms instantly.

Efficiently Manage Employees and Contract Workers

Manage payroll and payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit 1(paid subscription required)
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel and save it as a PDF file.

Prepare and print 1099s & 1096s for contract workers & federal filing
The QuickBooks 1099 and 1096 wizard will walk you through all the steps to create and print tax forms for you and your independent contractors.

Manage Products, Services and Inventory

Track inventory, set reorder points, and create purchase orders
Easily track your raw materials and finished goods to avoid overbuying and backorders. Import your inventory from Excel or record directly in QuickBooks. You can even indicate re-order points for each inventory good and turn on reminders to automatically let you know when its time to reorder. Create and customize purchase orders directly from the Home Page, and automatically receive against P.O.s when recording bills

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact.

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Word documents.

Easily share your accounting records with your accountant.

Flexibility to Work the Way You Want

Export company data to Excel spreadsheets
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create letters with Word using customer data
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create and customize professional-looking forms
Create professional-looking forms by choosing from more than 100 expertly designed forms, including invoices, estimates, and sales receipts. Or create one for yourself in Microsoft Word. You can also customize the templates by adding your company logo and tag line to present your business uniquely to your customers.

IMPROVED! Allow your accountant to review data & make changes while you work.
Easily share your accounting records with your accountant. Increase your productivity by allowing your accountant to review historical data and make changes while you work. Seamlessly import your accountant's changes back into your file for improved accuracy.

Easily map and obtain directions to your saved customer, vendor and employee addresses--right from within QuickBooks!
Open up any record in the Customer, Vendor and Employee centers to access links to maps and directions to customer and vendor locations or employee addresses.

Access your QuickBooks data from any secure Internet connection
Access your financial data even when you're not in the office by using QuickBooks Remote Access, powered by WebEx. All you need is an Internet-connected PC. All transmissions are protected by encryption technology used by financial institutions.

Other Tools to Meet Your Business Needs

Print checks and forms directly from QuickBooks to keep better, more accurate records while also saving time

• Accurate records: All your information will be updated and stored in QuickBooks.
• Save time: Three out of four QuickBooks customers save at least one-half the time printing checks vs. handwriting them.
• Check out our deposit slips, envelopes, tax forms, invoices, stamps, and labels--all designed to work with QuickBooks.

We guarantee your checks will work with QuickBooks and your printer, and they will be accepted by any financial institution in the United States-or we will refund or replace your order within 60 days of purchase. Learn More

Save time by accepting all major credit cards and debit cards with QuickBooks Merchant Services
Built into your QuickBooks software, QuickBooks Merchant Services is easy to set up and use. No new hardware, software, or phone lines are required. When you make a sale, the data is automatically recorded in QuickBooks. QuickBooks Merchant Services requires no additional data-entry, and you won't waste hours searching for errors. You can process sales on screens you already know and use. Reconcile quickly, without headaches. This credit card processing from QuickBooks has no teaser rates, no hidden fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts.

Keep track of your inventory and customer information while you ring up sales
QuickBooks Point of Sale software and hardware save you the time and trouble of doing it yourself, making it easier to focus on the products and services that will keep your customers coming back. Pair Point of Sale with QuickBooks financial software and you can transfer sales information to your financial software-in one click.

NEW! Quickly capture billable hours online and from Outlook Calendar
Free 60-day trial! Time Tracker is the simplest way to track and record employee and contractor time in QuickBooks. Your employees can track their hours from anywhere, using a timesheet on the Web and, now by designating meetings, emails, and appointments in their Outlook calendar for billing! You can download an entire set of timesheets into QuickBooks with one click. Administrators can review and edit timesheets before submitting to ensure accuracy, as well as run custom reports on submitted time.

Meet key business needs with third-party software found at QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace
Find industry-specific solutions that work with QuickBooks and help solve your unique business challenges including specialized inventory and order management, scheduling, document management, multiple billing rates, complex estimating, and project management.

• Takes you step-by-step through the essentials of mastering QuickBooks basics
• Offers shortcuts, tips, and tricks for working faster in QuickBooks
• 3 hours of training, information, answers and insights relevant to your business

Step-by-step essentials of mastering QuickBooks basics.

Shortcuts, tips and tricks for working faster in QuickBooks.

QuickBooks Learning Solutions provide you the most effective way to learn, customize and master QuickBooks financial management for your business. They will help you...

• Get information, answers and insights relevant to your business
• Spend less time doing your books and more on your business
• Become confident with the QuickBooks `hows'...plus the crucial accounting `whys'

How Learning QuickBooks for Windows Can Help You

Here's just some of what you'll learn:

• An overview of bookkeeping basics
• How to set-up your data in QuickBooks and get started the right way
• Essential QuickBooks tasks, like invoicing, receiving payments, and paying bills
• How to generate reports and analyze trends
• Shortcuts, tips and tricks for working faster in QuickBooks

Duration: 3 total hours of training Includes: 1 CD

Designed for New QuickBooks Users Running:

• QuickBooks Pro 2008
• QuickBooks Premier 2008 (all versions)

With Learning QuickBooks, you'll gain a firm grasp on these important concepts and tasks:

• An overview of bookkeeping basics
• Orientation to QuickBooks
• Why good accounting is crucial to your business
• How to set-up your data in QuickBooks and get started the right way
• Essential QuickBooks tasks, like invoicing, receiving payments, and paying bills
• Guidance on early key decisions
• Introduction to financial statements
• Setting up your chart of accounts
• Using QuickBooks for billing customers
• Receiving payments and making deposits
• Monitoring customer payment status
• Entering and paying bills
• Writing and voiding checks
• Reconciling bank accounts
• Backing up your QuickBooks data
• When to consult your accountant
• Shortcuts, tips and tricks for working faster in QuickBooks
• Interpreting reports
• Analyzing trends

• Industry-specific and business-planning software designed to take your business to the next level
• Organize sales, expenses, business loans, and more in one convenient place
• Start fast and get help when you need it with built-in tutorials, onscreen help, and free QuickBooks callback support

Movies See how QuickBooks Premier can help your business succeed Premier Edition Overview (2:59) Industry Specific Versions Available (1:40) What's New (1:59) Quickly Pay Bills and Print Checks (1:00) Invoice a Customer and Apply Payments (1:16)

Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily.

Premier also includes advanced tools for tracking inventory and employee billable hours, creating purchase orders, setting pricing levels and accessing your data via the Web.

Industry-specific versions of Premier make managing your finances even easier. With QuickBooks Premier, you'll have the tools and business insights you need to grow your business.

Easily Get Started

IMPROVED! Import Data from Excel
Excel templates make it easy for you to import your existing customers, vendors, or product information into QuickBooks. You can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding QuickBooks column. Save these settings to use again the next time you want to pull in data. You can even preview your data before you transfer it.

Import Data from Quicken, Peachtree, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Access the Quicken conversion tool in QuickBooks to convert your data from Quicken 1998 through 2007. If you are currently running your business using Peachtree 2001-2008, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006, and Microsoft Office Accounting/ Office Accounting Express, you can also easily convert your data into QuickBooks 2008.

Get Set Up and Running Quickly
Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

NEW! Step by step coaching for new users to help you learn QuickBooks faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The new QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.

Learn QuickBooks Quickly with Built-in Tutorials
Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them--in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks. Upgrade your QuickBooks effortlessly

Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2008. Your company file and preferences will transfer automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Get Help When You Need It

NEW! Find Answers Fast
Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily as you work in QuickBooks, so you can get back to business. You'll find answers to most questions in QuickBooks in-product onscreen Help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.

Enjoy Free QuickBooks support included for 30 days from registration for questions submitted online
Have a question about QuickBooks? Submit your questions online at www.quickbooks.com/contactme. We'll email or call you back usually in 30 minutes or less. No waiting on hold!

Tap into the knowledge of the QuickBooks User Community
Visit the QuickBooks User Community to connect with other QuickBooks users and experts to ask questions and share advice. Search or browse through a variety of discussion topics or post your own question.

View unbilled employee time and expenses in a single screen; transfer to an invoice in one click.

Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions.

Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Customized for Your Business

Features designed for your industry
Save time on everyday tasks with products and services developed with your business in mind. Access reports, forms, and features specifically designed for your industry. Choose from Premier editions designed for accountants, contractors, manufacturers and wholesalers, nonprofit organizations, professional services firms, and retail businesses.

Create 100+ customizable reports, like Profit & Loss Statements and sales reports, in two clicks
QuickBooks Premier provides with more than 100 pre-designed, customizable business reports including specific reports for your industry. Use the Report Navigator to easily choose the right one. Access industry-specific reports such as:

• Profitability by Product for manufacturing and wholesale businesses
• Job/ Project Costs for professional services firms and contracting businesses
• Donor Contribution Summary for nonprofit organizations
• Sales Tax Liability for retail businesses

IMPROVED! View unbilled employee time and expenses in a single screen; transfer to an invoice in one click
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel and save it as a PDF file.

Plan for the future by creating a business plan and sales & expense forecasts
Click a button to create a forecast of income and expenses for the coming year, based on your existing QuickBooks data. Increase or decrease line items by any percentage to adjust for future changes.

Advanced features to track costs for assembled products and inventory
You can buy the same item in one unit of measure, stock it in another, and sell it in yet another. This flexibility will help streamline workflows and enable you to easily buy and sell products in precisely the way your vendors and customers prefer.

Set billing rates by employee and service type
QuickBooks provides the flexibility of setting different billing rates by employee and service type. You can set a fixed hourly rate for each employee or create custom hourly rates by service.

Create sales orders and track back orders
QuickBooks helps you manage complex invoicing with sales orders. Track customer orders with sales orders until you are ready to invoice a customer-for instance, if you wait to include multiple orders on one invoice. Also, use sales orders to identify back orders until you can send the product to your customers.

Access your QuickBooks data from any secure Internet connection
Access your financial data even when you're not in the office by using QuickBooks Remote Access, powered by WebEx. All you need is an Internet-connected PC. All transmissions are protected by encryption technology used by financial institutions.

Save Time on Everyday Tasks

Easily track and pay bills; set due date reminders
Record bills as they arrive directly from the QuickBooks homepage. Never mistakenly miss a bill due date - QuickBooks will alert you with due date reminders. And when you are ready to pay bills, QuickBooks shows you all bills that are outstanding.

Quickly create estimates & invoices
When it's time to bill your customer, turn any estimate into an invoice with one click. Choose from dozens of pre-designed QuickBooks templates, or send the key invoice data to a customizable Microsoft Word document.

NEW! Send estimates, invoices & reports directly from QuickBooks using MS Outlook or Outlook Express
Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Download credit card and bank statements
Download cleared checks, deposits, and credit card transactions into QuickBooks to save time on data entry and reconciliation.

See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer with Customer Center.

Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments with Vendor Center.

See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid in Employee Center.

Stay Organized and on Top of Your Business

Organize data all in one place with Customer, Vendor, and Employee Centers

• Customer Center
  Follow up on past-due accounts and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer.
• Vendor Center
  Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments. Check your account status to avoid incurring late charges. Initiate new payments or purchase orders with one click.
• Employee Center
  See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid.

Track sales, sales taxes, and customer payments
Easily record sales and create sales receipts for your customers. Set up sales tax codes, and QuickBooks will automatically charge sales tax on all invoices, sales receipts, and other sales forms. When it's time to pay sales tax to your local sales tax board, QuickBooks will also help you figure out how much you owe.

Track employee time and expenses to bill clients
Track time by employee, service, and customer with timesheets in QuickBooks. When you select a client to bill, QuickBooks automatically reminds you of unbilled time and expenses for that client.

Easily export or enter data into TurboTax, or send to your accountant
Be ready for tax time. QuickBooks helps you assign each account in your Chart of Accounts to a specific line on tax forms, so all income and expenses are accurately categorized. Easily export your tax data into TurboTax or provide your accountant accurate data to simplify the tax process.

Efficiently Manage Employees and Contract Workers

Manage payroll and payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit (paid subscription required)
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel and save it as a PDF file.

Prepare and print 1099s & 1096s for contract workers & federal filing
The QuickBooks 1099 and 1096 wizard will walk you through all the steps to create and print tax forms for you and your independent contractors.

Manage Products, Services, and Inventory

Track inventory, set reorder points, and create purchase orders
Easily track your raw materials and finished goods to avoid overbuying and backorders. Import your inventory from Excel or record directly in QuickBooks. You can even indicate re-order points for each inventory good and turn on reminders to automatically let you know when its time to reorder. Create and customize purchase orders directly from the Home Page, and automatically receive against P.O.s when recording bills.

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact.

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Word documents.

Easily share your accounting records with your accountant.

Flexibility to Work the Way You Want

Export company data to Excel spreadsheets
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create letters with Word using customer data
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create and customize professional-looking forms
Create professional-looking forms by choosing from more than 100 expertly designed forms, including invoices, estimates, and sales receipts. Or create one for yourself in Microsoft® Word. You can also customize the templates by adding your company logo and tag line to present your business uniquely to your customers.

IMPROVED! Allow your accountant to review data & make changes while you work.
Easily share your accounting records with your accountant. Increase your productivity by allowing your accountant to review historical data and make changes while you work. Seamlessly import your accountant's changes back into your file for improved accuracy.

Easily map and obtain directions to your saved customer, vendor and employee addresses--right from within QuickBooks!
Open up any record in the Customer, Vendor and Employee centers to access links to maps and directions to customer and vendor locations or employee addresses.

Other Tools to Meet Your Business Needs

Print checks and forms directly from QuickBooks to keep better, more accurate records while also saving time

• Accurate records: All your information will be updated and stored in QuickBooks.
• Save time: Three out of four QuickBooks customers save at least one-half the time printing checks vs. handwriting them.
• Check out our deposit slips, envelopes, tax forms, invoices, stamps, and labels - all designed to work with QuickBooks.

We guarantee your checks will work with QuickBooks and your printer, and they will be accepted by any financial institution in the United States-or we will refund or replace your order within 60 days of purchase.

Save time by accepting all major credit cards and debit cards with QuickBooks Merchant Services
Built into your QuickBooks software, QuickBooks Merchant Services is easy to set up and use. No new hardware, software, or phone lines are required. When you make a sale, the data is automatically recorded in QuickBooks. QuickBooks Merchant Services requires no additional data-entry, and you won't waste hours searching for errors. You can process sales on screens you already know and use. Reconcile quickly, without headaches. This credit card processing from QuickBooks has no teaser rates, no hidden fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts.

Keep track of your inventory and customer information while you ring up sales
QuickBooks Point of Sale software and hardware save you the time and trouble of doing it yourself, making it easier to focus on the products and services that will keep your customers coming back. Pair Point of Sale with QuickBooks financial software and you can transfer sales information to your financial software-in one click.

NEW! Quickly capture billable hours online and from Outlook Calendar
Free 60-day trial! Time Tracker is the simplest way to track and record employee and contractor time in QuickBooks. Your employees can track their hours from anywhere, using a timesheet on the Web and, now by designating meetings, emails, and appointments in their Outlook calendar for billing! You can download an entire set of timesheets into QuickBooks with one click. Administrators can review and edit timesheets before submitting to ensure accuracy, as well as run custom reports on submitted time.

Meet key business needs with third-party software found at QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace
Find industry-specific solutions that work with QuickBooks and help solve your unique business challenges including specialized inventory and order management, scheduling, document management, multiple billing rates, complex estimating, and project management.

QuickBooks Premier Edition Reports
With QuickBooks reports, you'll always know where your business stands. See who owes you money and how much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Learn where your business is profitable and where you're losing money. You can also customize report templates to best meet your needs.

Reports in QuickBooks Premier

• Forecast Overview
  What are my company's forecasted income and expenses each month?
• Forecast vs. Actual
  What transaction changes were made on or before the last closing date?
• Closing Date Exception Report
  What changes were made after the last closing date was set to transactions dated on or before that closing date?
• Open Sales Orders by Customer
  What are the open sales orders for each customer or job?

Reports in QuickBooks Pro and QuickBooks Premier

• Inventory Stock Status by Vendor
  What is the detailed information about each inventory item, organized by vendor?
• Profit & Loss Budget Performance
  How do the actual income and expenses compare to what has been budgeted for the current month and year?
• Time by Item
  How much time has my company spent on each service we provide?
• Purchases by Item Summary
  How much has my company spent on purchased items or services?
• Profit & Loss Standard
  How much money did my company make or lose over a specific period of time?
• A/P Aging Detail
  Which bills are due and overdue?
• Statement of Cash Flows
  What was the cash inflow (from profit and additional cash received) and cash outflow (cash spent) during a specific period of time?
• Income Tax Detail
  What transactions will need to be included on my company income tax forms?

• Offers standard accounting features, plus easy tools to help nonprofits demonstrate financial accountability
• Automatically track your organization's finances and finish basic accounting tasks faster; works easily with Microsoft Office
• Satisfaction guaranteed -- or your money back

• All-in-one bookkeeping, write-up, and financial-reporting tool to help accountants work efficiently with multiple QuickBooks clients
• Improved Easy Step start-up interview simplifies client setup and reduces coding errors
• Satisfaction guaranteed -- or your money back