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Premier & Enterprise editions of QuickBooks includes the same great features as QuickBooks Pro but:
adds value by collecting more data, shortening the learning curve, and  includes time saving features and better controls.  

QuickBooks Simple Start is a product that has been stripped of all bells and whistle included in Pro, Premier and Enterprise QuickBooks Editions.  it handle basic accounting for a company with very  simple bookkeeping needs.

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• Need help with industry-specific reports, forms, and help menu content and/or

• Need to use sales orders and/or

• Need to assemble inventory and/or

• Need advanced job costing features (accountant & contractor editions)

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from earlier QuickBooks editions

Notable improvements found in All Editions

• Multi-Monitor Support - Now QuickBooks have multiple windows for one QuickBooks file open in up to 3 monitors
• Paste Due Stamp - Users have the choice to display a past due stamp on invoices

• Search feature now found in the chart of accounts
  
   

•    Easier access to selecting the report basis (cash or accrual)

Notable improvements found in Premier and QuickBooks Enterprise

• Improved Inventory reporting - now you can select which columns to display on the inventory valuation or Stock Status reports
  a. Inventory valuation
  
  b. Stock status
  
   

Notable improvements found in QuickBooks Enterprise

• Merge multiple vendors (also found in Premier accountant edition)
   

• Awesome improvement in Order management - now send pick tickets to employees via ANDROID mobile device
  with KitKat 4.4.2 or greater (works with downloaded app called warehouse manager). Supercharge this process by adding wireless mobile scanning using a Motorola/Zebra MC40
  First assign the warehouse and if applicable Bin
  Next send the picklist to your employee's android
  The employee completes the order and the PICKLIST screen now will be updated with the order status
  
  

Time Sheets - copy and paste time sheet lines  (from Edit menu)

Improved Insights page on the Home Screen

Under gear icon at top right
corner of page you can choose
what is important for you to see
















New Bill Tracker - Makes easy work of finding and converting a purchase order to a bill and then paying that bill
4 TABS  -Purchase Order,  Unpaid Bills , Overdue Bills ,  Paid bills

Search Purchase orders, sales order, Invoices and sales receipts for the item or description fields

This feature will be super helpful if you regularly send out invoices or enter bills with more than 5 lines of product. 
How many times does a customer call and wait while you are looking for the line item in question. Or, you search through a
bill to see what the price you paid the last time you ordered it ?  (of course there always is a quick report on the item, but
many of us still use the vendor center )   This Search feature found at the top of the transaction type in a separate tab is a true
crowd pleaser. 

Finally -  the ability to filter a report on Custom Fields in item based reports - included with all versions of desktop 2016.
In the past we set up items with a Parent item designating the Product line and the children items as the the Items
we sell.   That can cause difficulty in importing or reporting.  Now we can have a custom field designating the department
or  possibly the style of the item (color, material) and we can run an item report filtered for a specific variable.

Other improvements

• Drop Ship address will convert from sales order to a purchase order.  In Enterprise and Premier only.
  When you create a PO from a SO there is a checkbox to select which will port the ship to address from the sales order to the
  ship to address from the PO.  (First time this feature is available and a welcome improvement!)
   

• Delete multiple to be sent transactions with a single click -Great if you  accidentally click on the send later button
  and do not intend on emailing the transaction.
   

• Continuous Fee Label printer support.  For printing to zebra compatible continuous feed printers.
   

• Improved Verify data wizard.  No more hunting for the QBWIN.log.  QuickBooks will prompt you to open this file
  with one click.
   

• New Macro date to choose from -  Instead of "This year to date", you can choose This fiscal year to last mont
  
   

• Merchant payments can now be customized to allow your customer to pay online using credit card or
  ACH or give them the choice.   Ach fees are $ .50  per transaction where credit card fees can be as high as
  3.5%. This feature can offer big savings in credit card fees!
  
   

• Enterprise only Improvements
  
  Sort the transaction in  receive payments window by any column.   Job costing QB users will find this very hand
  when a customers is making a payments on multiple jobs.  Sort the receive payment by dollar amount due,
  by customer name (job costing), by reference number, or original amount of invoice.   Makes it much easier
  for QuickBooks  users with high volume invoicing to apply payments.

  Batch Delete or Void transactions - (also in the Accountant Premier Edition)
  Ever import those credit card or bank transactions multiple times in error?  -  You will certainly find this tool handy.

  Advanced Reporting Improvements
  
  Ability to create a mix of charts and detail data on one sheet
  New object added for Chart reporting of Sales Order Created vs Sales Order Shipped
  New object added for Invoiced vs Paid Transactions
  Transaction, Customer and Canonical Date Ribbons
  Help Site improvements, including template pages, user guides and training videos

QuickBooks Accounting Software 2015   Includes all the great features of the prior editions PLUS Added - the following key features:
New Insights dashboard has been added to QuickBooks home page -  

• Chart how your monthly Profit and Loss and see how your doing
• View your open and overdue Account Receivables
• Quick view of company spending and have better control over your cash flow

Send portable file -
Easier to now send a portable copy of your company file to your accountant.

Reminders Window -
Has been reorganized for better viewing.

Pin Notes -

• For a Customer, Vendor, or Employee


• Can now add an "important" note that will be viewed on the profile portion of the Customer, Vendor or Employee page


• Only one note can be pinned - make it the one you want to be easily viewed without having to go under the notes tab

Income Tracker-
Improved to include Time and Expense transactions to the money bar.
Money bar gives total of your unbilled, unpaid, and paid  Estimates, Time & Expenses, Sales Orders, Invoices transactions
You can control which details you want to see.

Billable Time and Costs -
Invoicing a customer and open the add billable time window.
The tabs (Time, Expenses, Mileage, Items) now include total of # of billable entries for each tab.
Reduces time needed to search each tab for billable time.

New for QuickBooks Admin user -
Now has the ability to end another user's QuickBooks session even with unsaved data. 
Saves time when a backup is required and all users must be out of QuickBooks before doing the backup. 

Customer PO# -
Now viewable under the Customer Center Transaction tab.
(right click to add).

Estimates -
Automatically closed when you fully invoice an estimate.

Inactivate Items -
Warning will popup when an item is inactivated and still has a quantity on hand.

Registration Improvements -
Now paste your license key into the registration window instead of typing the license number.

New for Reports

QuickBooks Accountant 2015
With a Pro Advisor membership or subscription to QuickBooks Accountant Plus
Log into a clients file as an External Accountant user and access to the Accountant Toolbox

QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise v 13 new features
Mac users - click here

2013 new and improved features for windows QuickBooks Editions:

1. New Design QuickBooks 2013:

The icon bar is now improved and placed on the left. Easy access to  "my shortcuts", "my apps", "my to dos", "view balances", "key reports". The old icon bar and open windows list is still available for QuickBooks users who prefer the icon on top

Customer Center, Vendor Center, and Employee Center allow for unlimited note files, to dos, and contacts. A tremendous improvement making QuickBooks an even better business management tool

Form icon bars, now called ribbons on the top of all transactions have been improved. Now one click access to just about anything surrounding that transaction type.  Tabs now exist for Main, Formatting, Send/Ship, and Reports.









See all that you can do now under the QuickBooks Formatting,
Send/Ship, and Reports tab:
 

The Customer Record, Vendor Record, and Employee Record, are better organized. This is a super improvement, especially for new QuickBooks users. It is very easy to recognize the power of what QuickBooks can track for you with this new improvement.

2.  Functionality:
    QuickBooks 2013 has expanded the number of items allowed in group items from 20 to 50
    Annoyed by that billable box being checked off each time you enter a Customer:Job on a transaction or time entry?
        QuickBooks 2013 has included a preference to turn on or turn off!
    QuickBooks Reporting- Choose whether reports include the item name, the item description or both
    You can now print Bills entered in QuickBooks to a paper / pdf report (not just the transaction report) Its a screenshot of the bill
     Selective Expand/Collapse on reports - You can now pick and choose which Parent Accounts to collapse (and therefore not display subaccounts)
    Save as a PDF is now available on all transaction (on ribbon bar) - In earlier versions you needed to access this feature from the file menu.
 
2013 Improvements only found in QuickBooks Enterprise 

• In 2013 QuickBooks Enterprise you can assign classes to accounts, items or names! Not available in premier or pro editions.
• Create Purchase Orders automatically from the Stock Status by Item report- Requires reorder points and preferred vendors to be set up.
• 2013 Enterprise Expands the number of items allowed in Lists:
  Chart of accounts, Classes, Customer types, Vendor types, Customer Messages and To Dos  from 10,000 to 100,0000
  Memorized transactions from 29,000 to 50,000
• Improved display when an item's cost has changed , QuickBooks Enterprise will pop open an easy to understand window asking the user if they would like to update the item cost, update the item sales price.
• Expands Number of items allowed in group items from 20 to 50
   
• Advanced inventory, an add-on to QuickBooks Enterprise is the real beneficiary of this years programming efforts.

Previously Advanced inventory included:

• Inventory tracking across multiple locations- older versions limited to 200 sites, 2013 now offers 1,000,000
• Serial number or lot number tracking
• First In- First Out Inventory valuation method

2013 Advanced inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise 2013 Added

• Tracking locations within inventory sites (row, shelf, or bin)
• Bar Code scanning -

  Need to purchase bar code scanning hardware-, QuickBooks Advanced inventory for 2013 supports most USB and blue tooth scanners. Look for the following specifications: Support for EAN-13 and Code 128 barcodes; Able to produce a single carriage return at the end of the barcode
  Barcodes can be imported using the add/edit multiple list entries
  
  Barcodes can be used to fill out sales or purchasing forms to speed data entry. While working in a sales or purchasing form, scan a barcode and QuickBooks automatically places the barcode in the correct field on the form.

QuickBooks Accounting Software 2012 Added

1  Calendar View of transactions entered and due, along with a much improved TO DO feature.
    QuickBooks has the ability to assign a date, time, customer or vendor name to the To do. 
   

2   New Lead Center- this is the first step towards updating QuickBooks with a CRM module.
    IT is currently NOT a CRM but a great step in the right direction. Its like CRM for beginners. In QuickBooks leads can   
    be converted to customers, leads can have multiple contacts. 

3. Improved help menu, will make getting answers in QuickBooks even easier

4. Improved search which will search for any customer, transaction, amount, the results pop up in
    a new window which includes additional filtering capabilities

5.  Batch time Entry for those contractors with multiple employees working the same job (Crew time sheet entry),
     Time entry just got easier!

6. Excel integration has been improved in QuickBooks permitting the user to refresh data in an excel spreadsheet, preserving  certain types of manipulations in excel. Formatting and formulas.   Elements in excel that can be changed without breaking the link to live date in QuickBooks:  Column headers (formatting and name), Row Headers (formatting and name),  inserted formulas will be preserved, addition of new columns in between exported data set or end of exported data set.

7. Create a credit memo or payment from an invoice
    Create a Bill Payment right from the Bill
    Now that will save time- one click from the invoice and the credit memo is 90% done! Time to update to QuickBooks 2014  

8, Contributed Reports- Report writing can be tricky for the novice user.  In QuickBooks now there are at least one hundred (and growing) of report templates ready and waiting for you to download and start using. The titles are clear along with a description. Contributed reports are found under the report menu. These reports alone could save a QuickBooks user time and money!

9. Memorized Transaction Improvements - Now you can select which memorized transactions you would like to enter in the enter now window and which you would like to enter later.  Also added in QuickBooks - a frequency of every two months.

10 Attached Documents to QuickBooks lists and transactions is not new. However, it is now FREE with QuickBooks if you save your documents on your local computer/server.  QuickBooks will keep the documents in a folder named ATTACH found in the same location you keep your QuickBooks Company files.  There are NO user rights assigned to these documents so your staff will be able to open the saved documents without having access to QuickBooks.  Plus you will need to
backup this folder yourself!  It is not part of the QuickBooks Backup.

11. Improved Company file condense. - QuickBooks is now better at shrinking company files. There is now an added option to remove inventory transactions. It replaces inventory transactions with a inventory adjustment. In addition, you can remove all estimates, sales orders, purchase orders and pending invoices. For very large files you may still need advanced help with this, call us 800-216-0763 we off new file start services.

12. USPS adding to shipping manager

13. New Transaction tab - QuickBooks now includes a transaction tab on transactions - view linked transactions and
     summary data in the same window

14. No Company File Open -   QuickBooks nbsp; all versions now includes an edit list option to remove files you no longer need to access on a regular basis

QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise v 12 new features

1. New inventory center (With QuickBooks Enterprise v12  add an image- image feature not available in Pro or Premier). View in one window Qty on hand, qty on sales orders, Qty on purchase orders, qty reserved for assemblies, and Qty available.  Easily open a PO or Sales order for the item being viewed.  In QuickBooks you can filter the item list for items that have less than zero on hand, greater than zero on hand or customize the view to your needs. For premier users, open the inventory center from the Vendor menu > Inventory Activities > Inventory Center
 

QuickBooks Enterprise v12 only Improvements
1. Automatic price adjustments in QuickBooks Enterprise.  Set a default markup percentage for each item, when the cost price changes, you can elect to automatically update the selling price by the markup. The setting includes an option to always update the cost, but ask before updating the price.

Price level list- previous versions included a maximum of 100 unique price levels, now Enterprise offers a maximum 750 price levels.

2. Advanced inventory users (extra fee of $699/year)  New features in QuickBooks Enterprise 12

• Offers a view of inventory by location in the inventory center.  
• First in First Out inventory valuation rather than average cost is an optional choice - and select your start date
• Multi-location inventory tracking (came out last year- however worth mentioning again!)
• Serial number OR Lot number tracking - select which forms you want to show the Serial numbers or lot numbers
  QuickBooks can be set to warn if the serial or lot number is blank, duplicated or does not exist.

3. Enhanced Inventory receiving - The item receipt and the bill are now 2 different transactions. An item receipt will increase inventory as of the received date but not increase A/P instead it will increase a clearing account, the bill will increase A/P based on the date you enter the bill, which will NOT  change your inventory values, instead it will post to the clearing account.  So after posting 1 item receipt and its related bill, the clearing account will be zero.  But any future changes to that item receipt or bill which is also not done to the related bill or item receipt will cause that clearing account to no longer be zero. So strict controls should be implemented to avoid this problem.  This feature is optional, and will cure the problems previously incurred due to negative inventory counts or changes to when inventory quantities post.  However, this change is a global change and is irreversible.  You should test this change on a copy of your data file to see the impact on your financials before implementing this change.  This feature may cause conflicts with third party software you are currently using.   Definitely a must implement for NEW QuickBooks files, and a TO BE CAREFULLY researched with an existing QuickBooks file.   Need help with this evaluation?  Call us 800-216-0763 and ask about our support options.

4. Find and select added to invoice, sales orders, and sales receipt forms. Now easily find the item without endless scrolling
This feature is not available on purchase orders or bills in QuickBooks.

5. Improved Multi-user Functionality - In QuickBooks Enterprise v12
   Multiple people can Make Deposits. 
   Resort lists while in multi-user mode
   Set Closing date while in multi-user mode 
   Adjust inventory in multi-user mode (not a new feature but worth mentioning)
   
   Note -
   With all editions, Payroll activities can only be performed by one person at a time
   and Backup with complete verification still requires single user mode.
   Pro and Premier - Inventory adjustments requires single user mode
  

QuickBooks Accounting Software 2011 Added:

• Customer Collections Center -The QuickBooks Collections Center helps you manage collecting payments from your customers. It lists all overdue and almost due invoices in a single place. You can send email reminders to one customer or many customers, and it tracks customer notes about your collection efforts. When you send collection emails, your customer receives each invoice as a PDF attachment along with a cover note.
• Finally - QuickBooks includes quantity totals on sales detail reports ( Sales by customer detail, Sales by Item Summary
• New- Sales by Ship to Address in QuickBooks editions 2011.
• New - average days to pay report , providing you with information on how quickly your customers pay.
• Improved QuickBooks reports - Open Sales orders and Purchase orders Reports, now with a true value of open balance (Premier and Enterprise)
• Preference for bill paying, you can set QuickBooks to automatically use credits AND/OR Automatically use discounts. This used to be a combined
  preference which most companies did not use, but now one or the other option is available too.
• Balance sheet by class now available in QuickBooks
• Batch Invoicing - create one invoice and assign to a batch of customers in Quickbooks! Great for monthly services
• Customer Snapshot tab in the Company snapshot center - Provides users with detailed information on an individual customer
  including sales history, best selling items, recent invoices and payments
• History on transactions - When you open transactions in QuickBooks such as Invoices, estimates, sales order, and bills you see recent transaction history, name information and notes -saving time spent looking up these details
• Set closing date password is a terrific tool to avoid having changes made to your accounting documents. But for those companies that were
  still working open sales orders and estimates and purchase orders dated in a prior year, this became a nuisance and the closing date password
  would be provided to many individuals, rendering the protection worthless.  NOW.. a preference with the set closing date allows
  you to exclude estimates, sales orders, and purchase orders from closing date restrictions.
• Multilocation inventory - requires QuickBooks Enterprise edition v 11.0
• Online backup- improved- enabling a significantly better QuickBooks user experience
• QuickBooks Search- within QuickBooks - searches all fields for key word terms
• Web E-mail integration with QuickBooks - easy setup to the biggest email services (GMail, Yahoo & Hotmail) and
  ability to hook up to any email service with information provided to you by your email provider
• Inventory Adjustments - now has an improved form - Much easier to find the inventory you want to adjust -no more scrolling,
  and when you open the transaction you see only the adjusted items
• Have two companies open at the same time  (Enterprise Editions only)
• The inventory availability window existing on the invoice and sales orders is now available in the purchase order transaction-
  QuickBooks Enterprise Editions only.
• Now edit your spelling dictionary- you can now delete missspellings.
• A small but great improvement is you can now mark as billable, amounts placed on the expense tab and charged to a cost of goods
  sold account
• Date paid and paid stamp on invoices
• Now a spot for separate Ship to addresses in the QuickBooks vendor center

QuickBooks 2010 Added - key features

• Install Manager - Improved QuickBooks installation wizard.
• Backup / Restore data compression - Improved QuickBooks backup storage compression logic.
• Condense / Archive - Improved QuickBooks logic to more reliably reduce the amount of data in the company file, and improve the day-to-day performance of QuickBooks.
• Document Management - All Desktop editions, QuickBooks Document Management is the ability to attach files of any type to the appropriate QuickBooks records (names, items, accounts, transactions and company file as a whole). 102MBs of data storage! If you go over, there is a monthly fee $4.95 to 500MB, $14.95 for 1 GB, $29.95 for 5 GB (plus sale tax). Attach a document to Lists Names (vendor, customers, jobs,  employee, item), Attach documents to transactions. Browse from your local computer to attach or scan an attach in one step-requires a twain compliant scanner.
• Rapid List Entry - Rapid QuickBooks List Entry is a new feature that allows user5s to enter, edit and save multiple QuickBooks list items (Customer, Vendor, Employee & Item) all in one table with active cells.
• Forms Customization - Easier and faster for users to make QuickBooks forms look more professional and match the branding on other customer facing printed materials.
• Company Snapshot - Allow users to customize what widgets they want to see in the QuickBooks Company Snapshot and provide additional widgets that give them insight into tactical details of their business. Set this as your home page for a birds eye view on exactly how your business is doing.
• Favorites Menu - A new QuickBooks top-level menu item called “Favorites” is available, and can be disabled or re-enabled by customers (from the View menu). Customers or their accountants can easily configure this menu to centralize their favorite, commonly-used, and hard-to-find menu items. These are stored on a per-user, per-company file basis.
• Enhanced Report Center- Reports can be displayed in a carousel, making it easy to identify which report to run. Now you can change the dates before your run the reports (from within the report center), plus a favorites report section that works like your favorites on your browser, and a recent reports listing for those great reports you just found and forgot the name of.
  
  
  
  
  The green icon will display the report,  the star will add to your favorites and the ? will provide more information about the report
• ELMO Electronic Check Processing – Check scanning service offering through QuickBooks Merchant Service accounts.
• Online Banking - Numerous usability improvements, such as switchable download reconcile matching interface, side-by-side or register-view
  (you can now revert back to the view you had in QuickBooks 2008 edition! or, enjoy the current improvements.)
• Credit card processing - now get pre-authorization - available in 2009, but buried! Now, managing your merchant account is even easier.
  Call us for more information 800-216-0763 (ask to speak  with our superGuru - Linda Saltz)
  
  When you want to make sure your customer has sufficient funds available on their credit card, you can authorize the funds before you process the order. When you authorize funds for a credit card, the funds are placed on hold, and the limit of the customer's credit card is lowered by this amount. After the authorization goes through, when you make the actual sale, you can capture the authorized amount. Make sure you do this within seven days, when an authorization typically expires. If you capture an amount that is smaller or larger than the authorized amount, you may be charged a higher discount rate.
   
• Client Data Review - Available only in the Accountants Edition - Another great reason to select this edition over any other. A brilliant tool for finding and fixing errors. Controllers shoring up their month end numbers will find this a big time saver!  New QuickBooks 2010 Features- Troubleshoot negative inventory, apply credits tool, reclassify a group of transactions in one step, fix incorrectly recorded sales tax and payroll tax payments without messing up the bank reconciliation, batch write off of bad debts.
   
• Intuit Statement Writer - $150 - additional fee Accountant Edition (additional price) feature offers accountants significant productivity benefits for preparing highly professional-looking financial statements.
  Create up to 16 statements in one workbook and batch print your statements and documents
  Set ANY date range for statements, including 4-week months or 13-week quarters
  Send consolidated reports to clients in .pdf format
  Create Microsoft Word-based letters, cover pages and documents in your report, and bring QuickBooks financial data into your documents
  Build financial statements on a per-class or per-job basis, or as a combination of classes
   

Enterprise Solutions - 2010 new features:

Custom Fields - Additional Custom Fields on forms and reports for Items and Names, with new data-formats (numbers, dates, phone, multi-pick) and data-format validation. Two to Three times more custom fields available

Build Assemblies - Build Assembly transaction form is now a template. Line-items of the build assembly can be modified on the fly. Custom Fields for Items can be added to template as headers and columns. Transaction form can be printed.

Point of Sale - 2010 new features
Improve sales with point of sale  customer center
Coupons and promotions acceptance

QuickBooks 2009 Added - key features

All Editions:

• Microsoft Vista Logo Certified
• Duplicate a transaction
• Right-click to delete list items
• Multi-Currency. QuickBooks 2009 now supports all global currencies. - Once you turn it on, you cannot turn it off
    so be sure that you buy or sell in foreign currencies before you use thisAdd to Cart feature.
• Conveniently process wire transfers and drafts from within QuickBooks
• New Company Snapshot. real-time overview of your business
• Larger numbers support - 11 figure numbers (99,999,999,999) versus 8 figures in previous releases
• Improved Bank Reconciliation -Sort by: Check number, Date, Amount, Payee and other column headings
• QuickBooks Live Community. - Post your question for thousands of accountants and other QuickBooks users for help
• One user can create an invoice while another user is running a report
• QuickBooks Messenger allows for instant communication between QuickBooks users
• Back-up data in multi-user mode
• Search (Find) box in the customer center will look at all fields of the customer record and return results containing your search criteria
  For example a search for the word "first" will list customers with this word in the company name, in the email, in the street address
  or in notes!
• Search (Find) box in the vendor center and Item list! Clicking on the find icon will limit the search to a specific field in the record.
• Upgraded security on Master Company File Password
• Improved Online Banking -easier to set up and less confusing to use- Automatic transaction mapping to chart of accounts
• Customer Center & Vendor

Enterprise:

• 30 Users
• Sales force module (additional fees apply)
• One login if Warehouse management, Sales management, Business management
   

Point of Sale:

• Cashier Screen Easier to use and now with  Touch Screen convenience (requires a touch screen monitor)
• Capture customer signatures on merchant's receipt -Requires purchasing pin pad with signature sold separately
• 20 workstations in 1 location
• Improved Sales tax reporting with payment information by each tax agency, location, code and component
   
• Pro and Multistore - With webstore (additional fees apply) that will update items and pricing from POS
• Improved reorder points - Now easier to set default
• Plus Now you can set a reorder point with a QTY or Days of supply as a trigger - (THIS IS BIG)!
• Report of your Turn Statistics on the items you sell (turnover is how quickly you sell your items)

QuickBooks 2008 Added - key features

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All Editions:

• Easily share records with your accountant with an improved Accountant's copy now it only takes a single click to encrypt your file and upload the file to a secure server for your Accountant's download and review. Eliminating emailing and multiple file issues.  Your accountant can now complete bank reconciliations and merge accounts while you continue to enter your daily transactions
• Introducing context sensitive help, designed to provide new users with an enhanced start up experience.
• New excel templates make it easy for you to import existing customers, vendors, or product information into QuickBooks. Users can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding QuickBooks column

QuickBooks Simple Start

• Track Thousands of Customer and Vendor Contacts in free Simple Start 2008.
• Now supports Payroll! (additional fees may apply)

QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise

• Easily send invoices, sales receipts and other forms using Outlook and Outlook Express.
  Send emails directly from QuickBooks using Outlook or Outlook Express.
  Customer & Vendor Centers include clickable links on email addresses which open an email preaddressed. 
  Sync your contacts in Outlook with your contacts in QuickBooks.
  Customer Center- each customer now  includes Google Maps plus directions from a main location
   

QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise

• Easily identify which clients to bill. View unbilled time & expenses for all clients on a single screen and transfer to an invoice with one click. Instead of creating one invoice at time and selecting all unbilled time and costs, you now can simply open the Invoice for Time & Expenses screen and select the client and project combination. All unbilled costs for a given date range will be transferred directly to an invoice. You can also quickly view subtotals of your unbilled time and expenses and filter the individual entries by date

Point of Sale

• Users can now attach up to 2 digital pictures per item in your inventory list
• Users can generate and print a shipping label for UPS right from QuickBooks Point of Sale.
• Automatically track and reward customers that spend a certain amount at your store.

QuickBooks 2007 Added - key features

QuickBooks Simple Start

• Customize invoice forms (already available in all editions but now easier to use)

• Sub Accounts are now available (a feature that is already included in all other editons)

QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier & QuickBooks Enterprise

• Choose to auto fill  vendor bill/payments with just the correct chart of account  (elect not to prefill all fields
     with the last transaction data)
• 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. 
• QuickBooks has made it much easier for your accountant to work on your file while you continue to make entries into your file.  
    This feature will import all changes made by your accountant and provide you with a detailed listing of those
    changes. Its easy for your accountant to make and send your an import file with changes. Now your books will match your
    tax return and your accountant will no longer spin his/her wheels determining the cause of changes to beginning balances.
    Whenever you have a problem with the file, make an accountant's copy, e-mail and send to the accountant to fix. Your accountant will
    review at the  next opportunity and make the corrections in the copy you sent. He/She will then send you the file corrections to import
    into your copy. All very easy!  This feature alone makes it worthwhile for both you and your accountant to purchase and use QuickBooks 2008.
    Its good for you - you get accurate reports to make key business decisions without disruption to your daily workflow
    Its good for your accountant - spend less time reconciling and more time as a business advisor to your clients

Accountants will purchase the QuickBooks 2008 Premier Accountant Edition
which works with any 2008 version of Simple Start, QuickBooks Pro and all editions of QuickBooks Premier
Accountants will purchase the Accountants Edition of QuickBooks Enterprise which
works with any edition of QuickBooks Enterprise

• 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 starting with 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.
• Contractors edition will now keep track of when Vendors (subcontractors) workers comp certificate of insurance expires. QuickBooks and will let you know when entering a transaction to that vendor if there is an expired workers comp certificate on file.
• 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
• 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
• Combine multiple sales orders on one invoice and backorder tracking
• 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.
     
• 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
   

Included in QuickBooks are all the great features added to QuickBooks 2005:

• Improved management of customer payments.   See Tour
  Automatically handle overpayments or underpayments from customers on the receive payment window.
  When creating an invoice you can now immediately apply a customer deposit or other outstanding credit on the invoice form (no longer must you go to the receive payment window)
• Improved downloading bank and credit card transactions.  Match multiple transactions at a time. Associate similar vendors to one existing vendor name (for example multiple outlets for the same store)  See Tour
• Print envelopes from within QuickBooks. Improved letter wizard for  integration with Word. Plus convert an invoice into a word document for a more personal touch.  See Tour
• Reports navigator making it easy to select the right report to find the information you need   See Tour
• Retained earnings Quick Zoom (a feature handy for bean counters aka accountants)
• Shipping manager (not available in Basic) is now UPS Ready,  using customer address information on sales receipts or invoices to pre-fill UPS shipping labels (Fed-Ex labels can be printed too), complete with tracking numbers and bar codes. Schedule pickups and track shipments-directly from QuickBooks.
• Void/Deleted Transactions report - always on, improving security of your data
• For Do-it-yourself payroll subscribers there is now an enhanced service  which offers you the option of direct depositing the paychecks into employee's bank accounts plus prepares state tax forms. (there is an added cost to this feature).  New workers comp feature helps contractors track gross wages by classification code and calculate  worker's comp premiums (additional fees apply).
• All Premier editions includes an improved Business Plan Tool   See Tour and Expert Analysis Tool See Tour
• All Premier editions - Set billing rates by individual, position or skill level.  Use billing rate levels for all items or just for specific items. Send timesheet hours to invoices and QuickBooks will apply the right rate.
• Edit assembly items when components change
• Premier Contractors edition- New Job Cost by Vendor & Job Report, New Cost to complete report - a great tool for determining if the job is running over budget.

QuickBooks features added to QuickBooks Enterprise   not included as part of QuickBooks Pro or Premier Editions

• Much awaited improvement- providing security access to employees for only those areas of QuickBooks needed to do their job.  Not available in QuickBooks Premier editions, this feature is only available in Enterprise editions makes your decision now a very easy one.  View Enterprise QuickBooks Tour

• Multiple Field Search in List items-  Enter search criteria into all relevant fields to quickly produce the specific records you are looking for. You can even search on custom fields and notes fields 

Included in QuickBooks  are all of the great features Added to QuickBooks 2004

• Vehicle mileage tracker.   See Tour
• Loan manager to track loan payments and record interest expense.
• Undo premature bank reconciliation - an improved reconcile discrepancy report shows you changes and deletions made to previously reconciled transactions.    See Tour
• Email POs, sales receipts, credit memos, reports, sales orders (sales orders in Premier & Enterprise editions only).
• Create POs from sales orders (Premier & Enterprise only)
• Print packing slips and general purpose shipping labels from invoices.
• Save forms and reports in pdf format.
• Time and material invoices- now import both the item descriptions and the notes.
• Cash flow projector.
• QuickBook Premier Customize prices -
  • Set up to 100 price levels per specific item. Customize price levels per item, by dollar amount, for your customers. Set custom prices for items that are associated with different customers or jobs.  Or set up to 100 fixed percentage price levels.  Increase or decrease prices of all items for a particular customer or job by a fixed percentage  See Tour
• QuickBook Premier & Pro includes
  • Bring both item and notes into Invoice
  • Update data in existing excel spreadsheets - replaces report data, but existing cell references and formulas from other worksheets are maintained.
  • Option to add customer's total balance to printed invoice through the customize form window.
• Fixed asset tracker- asset name, serial number, date purchased and disposal date.
  Accountant- premier addition also adds a fixed asset manager that will calculate and track depreciation.   

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Included in QuickBooks are all of the great features  added to QuickBooks 2003

• Premier only
  • Sales orders
  • Inventory Assemblies
• All versions
  • Automatically create a budget
  • 100 professional looking form templates to choose from
  • Add text fields to forms  See Tour

QuickBooks 2002 Added - Key Features

• Premier only
  • Remote Access
• All Versions
  • Email invoices, statements, and estimates
  • Create multiple estimates per job
  • Password protected close date

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QuickBooks Mac 2014

• Income tracker where you can easily find transactions, edit transactions and create new transactions
• Add sales representative
• Customized views in customer center and vendor center

QuickBooks Mac 2013

• Batch Invoicing- For fast invoicing when you are billing many customers for the same item/price
• Attach Documents-scan and attach to the transaction or list item a copy of any document.
• Improved help with videos-
• Option to refresh reports automatically and choose to have reports option window open first
  before running the report. Also printing is much faster in 2013 edition.
• Add Multiple (import Customers, vendors, items) from excel spreadsheet.
• Improved backup- choose to backup to a folder every time QB is closed, the folder can be a cloud based such as Dropbox or Sugarsync.
• Get paid faster from customers - payment network allows customers to pay by ACH
• Improved reconciliation window- Sort by Date, ck #, payee, or amount (makes finding problems a breeze)
      hide transactions after the reconciliation date will keep errors to a minimum, discrepancies posted to a
      reconciliation discrepancy expense account (not open balance equity). Round tripping to QB Windows
      does NOT undo the reconciliation.

QuickBooks Mac 2012

• Redesigned forms - New customer history panel displays customer info for easy review including open invoices,
  open balances, notes, plus see a list of transactions
• Progress invoicing allows you to invoice projects in phases. Invoice by line item or percentage of the estimate. Track how much has been invoiced and what is left with the Job Progress invoices vs Estimate Reports
• Process online banking transactions in batches-QuickBook automatically creates rules to rename payees downloaded from
  your bank, you can then batch enter transactions easily
• Set default bank accounts for banking tasks (make deposits, write checks)
• Right click of the mouse displays options saving time
• Improved Forms Additional company fields ( email address, website, phone & fax) available in the layout designer
• Clear splits in write checks and bills
• Increased PO  number field limit on invoices
• Integrated help
• Improved search
• Journal entries now have a next/previous button, auto numbering, and auto-fill of the memo field
• Duplicated the last time sheet for an employee plus increased character limit in notes section

QuickBooks Mac 2011
Now accept credit cards in Mac - for more information call 800-216-0763 and ask to speak to our SuperGuru Linda Saltz.
My-Time tracking software now available

• Mac Users - Requires Mac OS X v10.5.4
• Now more of the best features of QuickBooks Pro for the PC
  Home page navigator with one click access to commonly used task
  Customer, Vendor Centers
  Send out Batch Emails for invoices and flag invoices and other forms to be emailed later
  Prepare and print 1099 & 1096 forms
  Access to google maps from the customer or vendor centers
• Built for the Leopard Operating System which makes full use of the new Mac Features like spotlight and cover flow
• Does not support/include: Multi-user, Multicurrency, Sales Order Tracking, Inventory assemblies, Online bill pay & funds
   transfer, or Merchant account services.
  
   

QuickBooks Mac

• Whats new 2007 see tour
• Print itemized deposit slips from QuickBooks
• Apply a single customer payment across multiple jobs
• Design and print customized forms: estimates, statements, invoices, sales receipts, purchase orders
  Now comparable to QuickBooks Pro for the PC See tour
• New interactive tutorial center
• Add icons to your toolbar for quick access to tasks
• Add reminders to iCal
• Sync QuickBooks with  address book- See Tour
• Share QuickBooks data file with Accountant  (see tour) who can open edit and save changes for you

What does the QuickBooks for the PC have that is NOT included in the Mac version of QuickBooks:

• Integrated Payroll
• Multi-user capabilities
• Merchant Account Services
• No integration with PC based third party software applications
• Does not have inventory assembly (kitting) capabilities for inventory
• QuickBooks Premier features such as sales orders and price levels not included in the Mac version of QuickBooks

QuickBooks Mac 2006 New Features:

• Download and import bank/credit card transactions
• Synchronize contacts with address book
• Customize toolbar
• Free 30 days of support from software registration
• Easier to share data with PC users including export reports to excel 
   

New QuickBooks Mac 2005 Features:

• Enhanced customization for forms. Add a PDF file as the background for invoices estimates, statements & purchase orders. Plus change fonts, select printed files and status stamps
• Unused customers, vendors, items can be made inactive, removing from your lists. (They can be made active again at any time)
• Sort lists by columns for finding information easily.
• QuickBooks Pro for the Mac now matches QuickBooks Pro for windows making it easier to find training, get accounting support, and ask other QuickBooks users questions.
• More reports, New statement of cash flows and unbilled costs by job.
• QuickZoom on Pay Bills and Receive Payments
• New sample service-based companies to help provide examples of how to better use QuickBooks.

New QuickBooks 2004 Features:

• Mac and PC users (such as your accountant) can now read each others data
• Export to Microsoft Excel or X for Mac
• E-mail invoices, statements, estimates, and reports (Improved) in PDF format 
• Backup Automatically

QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac

• Built for Mac OS X (Versions 10.2.8 and 10.3.5) and does not support Mac OS9.
• QuickBooks for the Mac may not be the best fit if you prepare your own payroll and are seeking integrated payroll features. QuickBooks for windows has a robust payroll features offering payroll check preparations, 941 preparation, state form preparation (features sold separately)
• Does not offer multi-user capabilities. In other words, two people cannot be working on the same QuickBooks company data file at the same time.

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