FREE 12 months Free Enhanced Support    from an Intuit (creators of QuickBooks) dedicated account support engineer, and unlimited support incidents.    Your dedicated support engineer will show you how to customize reports to your needs plus show you how the  new ODBC data access feature can enable you to create custom reports from your QuickBooks data using applications such as Crystal Reports, Microsoft Excel and Access (these applications sold separately). Your dedicated Support Engineer can also help you to create custom data queries and reports so you get the data and reports you need in the formats you define.

FREE  six QuickBooks Seminar computer based training CD-ROMs  with two detailed classroom manuals.   Within the first 60 days from your date of purchase, you can order at no additional cost Mastering QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions—an interactive training kit A $200 value, the course is a fast, easy way to learn QuickBooks.

FREE one year subscription to QuickBooks Employee Organizer , an employee database that helps track salaries, personal contact information and manage employment tasks. A $299 value. 

FREE 12 months of upgrades, including the new 2008 edition if released within 12 months of purchase.   

Is Enterprise Solutions by Intuit your right choice?

For current users, here are some indications that you are ready for the enterprise edition:

• Are you experiencing inconvenience with your current version of QuickBooks?
• Do you have to start a new data file every year?
• Do you want to limit user's QuickBooks access to only those features necessary to perform the job?
• Do you have to delete old items to add new ones?
• In multi-user mode, does one user have to wait for another to complete their task before starting their own?
• Do certain reports take a long time to generate?
• Do you have a need for more than 5 simultaneous users?
• Do you need better simultaneous user performance?
• Is your data file larger than 30 MB?
• Do you have long customer, vendor, or item lists (more than 10,000)?
• Do you have multiple locations?
• Are you a growing business?
• Do you want your employees to do more but want to limit the amount of access ?

QuickBooks Premier or QuickBooks Enterprise?

A 3 user license QuickBooks Pro $440 (but you can add 2 more single user licenses at $170/ea),  QuickBooks Premier 3 user  is $960 (but you can add 2 more single user licenses at $369 ea) and QuickBooks Enterprise is $3000 - a $1300 Premium.  Is it worth the extra money?  We think so.  Enterprise offers user permissions (improved internal controls) and efficiency features not available in Premier or Pro.  Plus it programmed to run 2 times faster than Premier. 

With QuickBooks Enterprise, Intuit has provide an ideal accounting solution, well worth the additional cost.   Even if your company has less than 5 users, this edition will make office workers more efficient, produce fewer errors, and provide the accounting security necessary to safeguard company assets. These added features will  recover the additional cost in no time at all.

Top of this list of great features , first available in the 2005 edition,  is the Advanced Permissions offering a huge improvement to internal controls. The ability to  limit users access of confidential financial information is very lightweight and somewhat ineffective in QuickBooks Premier.  Giving staff permission to access all features of QuickBooks is risky business.   Too much information provided to employees who do not need the information to do their jobs could provide fraud motivation to a disgruntled or financially distressed employee.  If a fraud can be rationalized by an employee who also has an opportunity to commit the fraud; and the employee has additional outside pressure or incentive to respond to that opportunity; and if conditions in your business are such that “getting caught” seems to be an unlikely scenario, your business is vulnerable. 

Enterprise Editions allow you to  give access to just the financial information needed to do the job.  A robust permissions and access features have been added to the Enterprise suite of software. Users can now assign distinct access levels, including view-only, create, modify, delete, and print, to over 155 separate entitlements. Plus print a report of each users permissions for periodic review. Plus selectively assign certain rights only previously available to the admin user . And finally an “always on" delete report means that a fraudster can no erase an audit trail.

View Enterprise QuickBooks  seminar covering the added new security features 115 user permissions.

• Download a QuickBooks Enterprise user worksheet to help you create the ideal set of permissions for each employee/job that exists in your organization including hiding Payroll transactions in registers when the user does not have permission to see Payroll

• Screen shot View of Enterprise Permissions:

   http://www.qbalance.com/QuickBooks_Enterprise_User_permissions.htm

Consolidated financial reports for affiliated companies customized reporting to Excel and Crystal Reports using the new odbc driver included with your purchase.

If you need more than 5 user simultaneous access,  Enterprise is the only desktop edition that offers up to 20 simultaneous user access.  QuickBooks On-line Edition offers 20 simultaneous users but is strictly for very simple accounting as it is stripped of many of the features of the desktop editions.

PLAN TO UPGRADE ANNUALLY - Intuit prices the upgrades at a value that you cannot ignore.   If you purchase a 5 user version  of Enterprise solutions, your renewal fee in 12 months will be $750.00 (10 user renewal is $1,200, 15 user renewal is $1,600, and 20 user renewal is $2,000).  The renewal fee, is a fee to receive the latest edition of QuickBooks Enterprise.  Your initial price entitles you to a free version of 2009 edition.

If you choose not to purchase the renewal plan, keep in mind no special upgrade pricing is currently offered.  That means if new features come out increasing your office efficiency, your price to upgrade is the same price as purchasing the entire program again (from $3000 -$9000).

• Premier and Enterprise QuickBooks include tools to easily locate information.

  • Multiple Field Search in List items-  PREMIER does include a search criteria in the customer, name and employee lists quickly producing  the specific names you are looking for.  You can even search on custom fields and notes fields   

  

    More information about QuickBooks Premier
   

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All the great Features found in QuickBooks Pro and Premier are included in QuickBooks Enterprise

• Works easily with Word, Outlook & Excel
• Write Checks and pay bills in QuickBooks
• Customize Forms in QuickBooks
• QuickBooks Shipping Manager
• Understanding sales order fulfillment in QuickBooks Premier
    available in Mfg/Whole, Retail, & Accountants Editions
• Managing costs with the Bill of Materials
• Invoice and customer payments
• All your key information in one place 

What performance measurements can you expect from QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions?

Run key reports faster than QuickBooks Pro
(Results may vary based on configuration, size and contents of data file, system and network traffic)

Generate large reports or search without affecting other users
A problem that can happen using QuickBooks Pro and QuickBooks Premier with  larger multi-user company files that also are multiuser

The following reports have been tested to run 2 times faster than QuickBooks PRO
Customer QuickReport 
Vendor QuickReport
Customer Balance Detail Report
Sales By Customer Detail Report
Deposit Detail Report
Check Detail Report
Vendor Balance Detail Report  

The following reports have been tested to run 1.5 times faster than QuickBooks PRO
Job Profitability Detail Report
Profit and Loss Standard Report Balance Sheet Summary Report
View Paycheck Details

Improved audit trail performance.
The audit trail feature can be used without experiencing significant slowdowns.

Quickly search and filter customer lists.
Search and filter across a variety of fields to locate desired entries quickly.

 Your accountant will need Enterprise edition to use the data file. With remote access that comes with the premier edition (and a small monthly service fee) your accountant can access your QuickBooks enterprise solution and work on your data file over the internet.

QuickBooks Enterprise Guarantee

  
Computer Hardware Requirements

System Recommendations suggested by Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks:

At least 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) with 256 MB RAM Minimum system configuration
• 500 MHz Intel Pentium III (2GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent recommended)  for both client and server
• At least 512MB(more strongly recommended as file size increases) for a client
• At least 1GB(more strongly recommended as file size increases) for a server
• 1GB of disk space (additional space required for data files)
• Operating System Windows 2000 SP3 or later or XP (SP2 or later)
   Microsoft Windows 2000 or later for file server.
• Internet Explorer 6.0 required (6.0 provided on CD. Requires an additional 70 MB)
  Internet 7.0 will be supported when released.
•Optimized for 1024x768 , supports 800x600 resolution with small fonts
• Works with any printer supported by Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
• CD-ROM
• All online features/services require Internet access with at least a 56 Kbps modem Integration requirements
• Word and Excel integration requires MS Word and Excel , 2000, 2002 or 2003
• Outlook synchronization requires Outlook  2000, 2002, or 2003
• ACT! synchronization requires Symantec Act 3.08, 4.02, or 2000 Multi-user
• Multi-user mode is optimized for Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 client-server networks, and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP peer-to-peer networks. Novell
NetWare is supported but not recommended. Terminal Server Recommendations
• 512 MB + 32 MB/user
• 1+ GHz CPU
• Connection band width between the Client and Server of at least 50 Kbps/user
• File server with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• For multiple remote users, companies will need to purchase Windows 2000 Terminal Services Client Access Licenses (CAL)
• Operating system: Windows 2000 Server or XP Professional
• Client Access License (CAL) necessary to connect to terminal server
• Client configuration: runs on any Windows operating system: 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/XP

What's new in QuickBooks Enterprise 2007

QuickBooks 2007 Added - key features

QuickBooks Enterprise

• Increased capacity for tracking customers & inventory, now you can add 100,000 names (customers, vendors, and employees)
   AND 100,000 items (inventory, non-inventory, and service) without degradation in performance.

QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise

• Choose to auto fill  vendor bill/payments with just the correct chart of account  (elect not to pre-fill all fields  with the last transaction data)
• Easier setup and improved integration with TrueCommerceEDI - additional costs apply (from $750 plus $39.95/mo)
• QuickBooks will now warn you when you are entering transactions with a future date or a date older than 90 days (the 90 day range can be modified)
• QuickBooks now adds a date and time to your backup file making it easy ( for those  who consider themselves computer "challenged") to keep a daily backup -
  one for each day of the week , a monthly backup, and an annual backup. 
• Negative deposits can now be entered through the make deposit window. A great feature for those who accept sporadic credit card payments  and occasionally need to refund a customer a credit card credit.
• Customization of forms has become much easier. Its time to give your company look a unique, professional look to your forms (invoices, purchase orders, sales order)
• New edition has teamed up with Google. The Google feature works the same way as a websearch but limits the  search to  QuickBooks.  Not to worry,  will only retrieve what your employees have permission to see. In addition, set up a Google AdWords account within QuickBooks and receive a $50 credit from Google to try out
     this form of advertising.  What is  AdWords? Go to www.Google.com  and do a search on QuickBooks. Those  links in the right margin are PAID advertising through AdWords. See how your sales can increasing by buying key  search terms - for your community.
• Are you still confused about what payroll taxes/forms are due when? This edition will remind you when to cut payroll checks, when to file and pay payroll taxes and how much to pay.
• For those companies who ship regularly with UPS and FEDex,  process shipments and print FedEx and UPS labels from within QuickBooks - and in QuickBooks 2007 you can use thermal label printers! You can even schedule pickups and track packages right in your QuickBooks software. Shipping Manager pre-fills the shipping labels with the customer address information from your QuickBooks Invoice or Sales Receipt forms. No more writing labels by hand. And no need to enter data twice. Shipping Manager is already built in to your QuickBooks software and it's FREE to use. You only pay FedEx or UPS charges on what you ship. And you can sign up for Shipping Manager through your QuickBooks software and start using it right away.
  
   
• Price levels now show up on estimates.
• Purchase and sell the same item in different units of measure. Only available in Premier Contractors & Mfg/Wholesale Edition
     Unit of measure conversion prevents costly errors.  Enter your item into inventory in smallest unit of measure for
     that product, sell on an invoice in a larger unit of measure. QuickBooks will reduce your inventory based on a
     conversion to the smallest unit of measure. For example sell 1 can of soda or one six-pack. QuickBooks will  
     reduce the soda inventory by 6.  Caution: Pricing for the six is based on the single can of soda pricing.
• Enterprise now can add up to 100,000 list items (names, items, classes)
• The easy step start up wizard (to set up new QuickBooks company files) is improved with the ability to select which accounts on a recommended chart of accounts that you prefer to use.

QuickBooks 2006 Added - key features

• Whole new design for easier navigation.
• New customer, vendor and employee centers
• Customer Center interactive demo in QuickBooks
• New Vendor Center shows all your vendors and what you owe them in one simple screen
• New Employee Center shows all your employees and what you're paying them in one simple screen
• New Payroll Center for Do-it-yourself payroll will help improve the accuracy and timeliness of PR related functions by providing information about when payroll, and PR Liabilities are due, who to pay and how much is owed. This center automatically reminds you if important dates. Plus the process of setting up QuickBooks Payroll has been greatly simplified.
• Always on audit trail that does not slow down performance!  All versions have switched to using the sequel database platform.
• Add multiple e-mail and shipping addresses for your customers.  Now you can set Cc e-mail addresses in the customer record which will pre-populate all e-mails created in QuickBooks for that customer.
• Processing credit card refunds- now there is a convenient way to show that a refund was provided on the credit memo.  Also a Bcc field has been added and users can set company wide default e-mail addresses to pre-populate the Bcc field (another improvement to your internal controls!)
• Voided checks are correctly accounted for by creating offset