QuickBooks Pro 2006 and QuickBooks Premier 2006

What's New in QuickBooks 2006

       Added features in QuickBooks 2006

QuickBooks 2006 all the terrific features of QuickBooks 2005 PLUS:

• Easier, quicker navigation with New Home Page and Information Centers
• NEW Customer Center- manage customer accounts with fewer clicks
  One screen will provide all this information
       A list of all customers and their balances.
       Click any customer's name, and  see their entire transaction history- estimates, invoices, received payments
       On the same screen the customers'  contact information without having to go to different screens
       Create custom filters to see specific customers
       Click through to the actual form without running a report or the find function
  
   
• NEW Vendor Center- manage vendor accounts with fewer clicks
• New Payroll Center
  Payroll just became easier!  This new feature provides you with PR information in the form that you would expect to see
  it making it much easier to recognize problems (if any should ever occur)

QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise

• Whole new design for easier navigation. See more
• Tour discussing the new customer, vendor and employee centers
• Customer Center interactive demo in QuickBooks
• Filter customer and vendor lists for specific criteria
• 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 offsetting journal entries in the affected accounting period.
• Improved window for "enter bills".  See the vendors address that will print on the bill payment checks.
• Improved communication between the item record cost field and the replacement cost purchased on checks, credit card charges, bills and POs.  Now you have the option to update the cost in the inventory or service item when creating a new purchase transaction. Now you can base change item prices on unit cost.  This is a choice to change cost of an item in the item record (via a pop-up window) at the time the purchase transaction is entered. You can elect NOT to display the pop-up message via a checkbox, but whatever choice you make on that transaction (to update the item record with the new cost or NOT) QuickBooks will use that as the default behavior.  Its a good idea to discuss this new feature with all data entry personnel. You can reverse this decision by selecting "bring back all one time messages" option under preferences (general).   If the item is a component in an assembly, the bill of materials average cost will change when the assembly item is built
• Customized pricing and rounding options make it easier to keep your pricing competitive
• Inventory - Includes a new field for manufacturers part number. Search and sort by your part number or the vendors.
• Finally - QuickBooks now posts reconciliation differences to a new account called reconciliation differences- a P&L account (sure sounds immaterial but a true time saver for your accountant!)
• Utility that creates a more compact company file for easier portability such as e-mailing the file to your accountants.
  
  QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise
• An improved bill of materials that includes (total cost to produce) with the ability to factor in overhead costs such as labor, supplies and depreciation
• Manufacturer/Wholesale, Retail, and Accountant's editions: (All QuickBooks Enterprise editions include these features but the following premier editions DO NOT: Contractor's, Professional, or Nonprofits.  If premier is the right product for you, AND, you want all the features of all the editions, purchase the Accountant's QuickBooks Premier edition as it contains every feature of every QuickBooks  premier edition.)
   
  • Backordered column has been added to the sales order to indicate fulfilled and still open quantities. Invoice has a new backordered column and picking lists can now be printed. Packing lists now show backordered items.  If you are a nonprofit and need to track backorders, consider purchasing the accountant's edition.

  
   

  • Backorder functionality on purchase orders as well. POs will display a column for previously received and a separate backorder column
  • Sales order fulfillment worksheet (window) shows all open orders  based on criteria important to you such as oldest orders,  shippable dollar amount, or by customer.  Customize whether you want to allow partial shipments or only complete orders. Select the orders you want to ship, then batch-print pick lists, packing slips or invoices.

  

   

  • Available-to-promise window where you can review how much of an inventory item  is on hand, how much has been committed to customers, expected on new POs and how much is pending for builds.
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• Accountant edition - toggle between QuickBooks Simple Start, QuickBooks Pro and all industry specific versions of QuickBooks Premier
• Select multiple sales orders to consolidate into a single invoice
   

Link to: Added features of earlier additions of QuickBooks

QuickBooks 2006