10 Reasons Why You Should Use QuickBooks
QuickBooks is the ideal business accounting software for small to
mid-sized business owners. Here are 10 reasons why you should
be using QuickBooks.
- You save time on bookkeeping and paperwork because many of
simple bookkeeping tasks are handled automatically making it
easier to run your business.
- You can easily generate the reports with the information you
need, so you always know where your business stands. You instantly
know whether you're making money and whether your business is
healthy.
- You save money because QuickBooks is so affordable. You can
use it to run a $5 million or a $25 million business for a few
hundred bucks. PC accounting software is truly one of the great
bargains in business.
- Your business can grow with QuickBooks. QuickBooks will help
you design a business plan to use when trying to secure a small
business loan or line of credit or to plan for the future. QuickBooks
will create a projected balance sheet, profit and loss statement
and statement of cash flows in the format recommended by the
U.S. Small Business Administration.
- You can customize QuickBooks to work the way you want. QuickBooks
is specifically designed to be flexible and adaptable to a wide
range of small businesses. To broaden its appeal, QuickBooks
has recently added customized accounting packages for Contractors,
Retailers, Health Care Professionals, and Non-Profit organizations.
- You can rest assured knowing that QuickBooks is a stable, reliable
and proven product. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses
throughout the world have chosen QuickBooks as their accounting
software. You can't go wrong with a software program with such
an extensive installed user base.
- You save typing time and errors by sharing data between QuickBooks
and over 100 business applications. You can even share data with
popular programs, such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and
ACT.
- You will get paid faster with QuickBooks online payments. E-mail
an invoice or statement and with QuickBooks Online Billing, your
customer can easily pay you with a credit card or bank account
transfer. No more waiting for the check in the mail!
- You can easily accept Credit Cards. With QuickBooks Merchant
Account Service, you can accept credit cards with ease. QuickBooks
Merchant Account Service is the only credit card acceptance service
integrated with QuickBooks software, which means you don't have
to enter the same data twice. No additional software or hardware
is required. Your customers can use Visa, Master Card, or American
Express.
- You can pay your bills and bank online. Setup your current
bank account in QuickBooks, and you're ready to pay your bills
without licking envelopes, sticking stamps, or printing paper
checks. Just write checks in QuickBooks as you normally would,
then click a button and your participating bank does the rest!
Pay anyone in the U.S. from your credit card companies to your
pizza service. Online Banking also lets you download your monthly
statement from your participating bank directly into QuickBooks
for easier reconciliation.
QuickBooks Set-up
Although QuickBooks is designed for the layman to understand, the initial setup
and installation must be done correctly in order for future information to
be accurate.
All information necessary to setup manual accounting records is also necessary
to setup and install QuickBooks on your desktop. This task is even more complicated
if you switch from manual accounting operations to QuickBooks in the middle of
the year.
Which accounting method will you use? What chart of accounts do you need for
your business? How do you handle beginning balances?
An expert can easily answer all of these questions and complete the initial Setup
and Installation in a timely manner. In addition, your accounting employees receive
training on the accounting software to enhance their performance.
As with any accounting software program, installation and training take time
- time taken away from managing your business. Here's a short list of the services
we provide during your QuickBooks setup:
- Study and evaluate your software and accounting needs.
- Recommend software and hardware requirements.
- Install software, design and set up chart of accounts and entire
accounting package including payroll, accounts receivable, inventory,
accounts payable, etc.
- Determination of your QuickBooks starting date
- Loading your chart of account and balances as of that starting
date
- Preparation of a list of the items that you sell to your customers.
This list includes services, inventory parts, non-inventory parts,
other charges and sales taxes
- Entering your outstanding accounts receivable and accounts
payable details as of your starting date
- Entering your ending statement bank balances and outstanding
checks & deposits in transit as of your starting date
- Printing a trial balance as of your starting date and comparing
it to your trial balance from your old system
- Entering your transactions since your starting dates into QuickBooks
- Train client or client staff in use of software to meet their
accounting, management and tax needs.
QuickBooks Training
Once QuickBooks is set-up and working properly, we can train you
or your employees to properly operate QuickBooks specifically
for your business.
Why choose one-on-one attention instead of taking a class?
- We can train at your location or ours.
- We focus on the individual issues facing your business.
- We will be there to answer your specific questions and concerns.
- No need to spend time on features that don’t impact your
business!
Buy QuickBooks and Save
You can purchase the most recent version of QuickBooks at a savings
of up to 20% by clicking on the Contact us tab at the
top of this site.
Click on the link below to learn about the powerful features of
the following QuickBooks programs.
QuickBooks
Simple Start
QuickBooks Simple Start organizes your financial information all
in one place, so everything is easy to find. It simplifies all
your accounting tasks and presents the information you need exactly
the way you need it. And now it's easier to use and more flexible
than ever!
Start saving time right away!
Now, easier to use and more flexible, QuickBooks Basic makes managing your small
business finances faster and easier than ever. Now, you can access the improved
Help & Support Center from more places... and type your question in plain
English.
You can schedule automated data backups onto more types of media, including CD-ROMs
(Windows XP only). You get more flexibility when printing forms. And you can
create a budget more easily.
Want more options for customizing your forms? A way to create a budget instantly
and automatically? Want to flow information from QuickBooks into other business
applications-and vice versa? Then take a look at QuickBooks Pro. And if you want
all that, plus planning tools to help you achieve better results, check out QuickBooks
Premier.
Key Advantages
- Track of your sales and expenses automatically as you create
receipts or invoices, and make deposits.
- Includes everything you need to organize customer information,
pay your bills and prepare for tax time.
- Simple to set up, learn, and use.
- Keeps you organized, efficient, accurate.
- New customization option lets you create professional-looking
estimates and invoices with a few keystrokes.
- Find any transaction fast. Get totals automatically without
writing formulas or doing math.
QuickBooks
Pro
Advanced tools that increase your productivity and help
you look more professional
QuickBooks Pro offers advanced, yet easy-to-use tools for small
businesses that want to manage their finances more effectively
and efficiently. In addition to all the features of QuickBooks
Basic, it offers more power and flexibility.
For instance, it automates job costing and time tracking. It allows
you to create multiple estimates per job. It gives you over 100
forms templates and lots of control over the look and content of
your forms. It lets you create a monthly budget with just one click
of your mouse.
QuickBooks Pro can save you time by letting you share your customer,
vendor, inventory and financial data with more than 100 popular
business applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook,
and ACT!
Order the Pro Edition 5-User Pack, and you can give as many as
5 networked users access to your company's QuickBooks file at the
same time.
Key Advantages
- More than 100 timesaving form templates
- Powerful forms customization options
- Creates a budget with one click
- Shares data with more than 100 business software applications
- Tracks job cost, tracks time and allows multiple estimates
per job
- Allows up to 5 simultaneous users (5-User Pack only; requires
local area network)
- Lets you assign custom price levels to different customers
QuickBooks
Premier
Achieve better results!
An exciting recent addition to the QuickBooks family, QuickBooks
Premier is designed for businesses who want to manage their finances
and improve the long-term performance of their business.
It offers a comprehensive set of tools that include everything
in QuickBooks Pro, plus advanced tools and features that help you
take your business further. It helps you quickly and easily create
a business plan to help you get loans or financing.
QuickBooks Premier also includes a sophisticated analysis tool
that actually measures your financial performance against averages
for your industry and makes expert recommendations to help you
improve it.
Key Advantages
- New management and planning tools help you achieve better results
- Builds a business plan and forecast based on your finances
- Analyzes your finances and makes expert recommendations
- Tracks sales orders
- Tracks components and finished goods for more accurate inventory
management
- Flexibility to work from home or the road via the Internet
- Easy upgrade automatically transfers your existing QuickBooks
data
QuickBooks
Retail: Point of Sale
QuickBooks Point of Sale software for retailers makes it faster
and easier to track sales, inventory and customer information.
It turns an ordinary PC into a cash register.
QuickBooks Point of Sale software gives you the convenience you
want with the control you need to manage and analyze your business.
Key Advantages
- Rings up sales like a cash register. Stores sales, inventory
and customer information for better reporting and decision-making.
- Tracks inventory, so you know what inventory you have on hand
without doing a manual count.
- Stores customer information, including name, contact information
and items purchased.
- Never enter sales information into QuickBooks Financial Software
again!
- Works with Intuit-tested point of sale hardware - receipt printer,
cash drawer, bar code scanner and credit card swipe.
QuickBooks Point of Sale software lets you easily transfer summarized
sales data to QuickBooks Pro or Premier (bought separately), so
you'll never have to re-enter sales information into QuickBooks
Financial Software again.
Get the Complete Solution
when you buy QuickBooks Point of Sale software, you can also purchase
the Intuit-tested hardware package, which includes a receipt
printer, cash drawer, bar code scanner and credit card swipe.
QuickBooks
Premier: Contractors Edition
Custom Built For Contractors
Introducing QuickBooks Premier: Contractor Edition, a first-ever
addition to the existing QuickBooks family of products used by
more than 350,000 contractors.
Premier: Contractor Edition is custom-built for contractors. It
simplifies the work of running your contracting business-from paying
bills to estimating, invoicing, and job costing - so you can manage
your business more effectively and free yourself for the work that
makes a difference to your customers.
It lets you create more accurate and complete estimates, with change
orders, and instantly see where you are making money and where
you are losing money.
With customized set-up help, a custom contractor menu and navigator,
and customizable forms templates, there's never been an easier
way to take charge of your contracting business.
Key Advantages
- Custom job-costing reports let you see which jobs are making
money-and which are not.
- Track change orders and get client approvals in writing.
- Nine reports specialized for contractors keep you on top of
your business.
- Contractor Menu and Navigator give you one-click access to
your key contractor activities and reports.
- Contractor-customized help and tips to help you get more from
QuickBooks.
- More than 100 new form designs and more customization options.
- Automatically converts your existing QuickBooks files.
- Works like other QuickBooks products, so you can be assured
its fast and easy-to-use.
- Includes everything in QuickBooks Pro and Premier.
QuickBooks Premier: Professional Services Edition
QuickBooks Professional Services Edition is an all-in-one solution
recommended for consulting, engineering, architecture, law, graphic
design firms, and many other types of small businesses. QuickBooks:
Professional Services makes it faster and easier to manage projects,
clients, and to automate invoicing without giving up flexibility.
QuickBooks: Professional Services software gives you the convenience you want,
with the control you need to manage and analyze your business.
Key Advantages
- Create and track invoices in QuickBooks, then send the data
to Word documents that look just like those you used to create
manually. No need to retype any information.
- Get instant access to contact information, balances and transaction
histories for any client, all in one window.
- Set multiple hourly billing rate levels for your employee,
client or service, and apply them to invoices any way you choose.
- Gain insight into your business with 17 Professional Services
reports, including reports that keep you on top of your projects
and show where you're making or losing money.
- Streamline financial tasks by turning estimates or proposals
into invoices with one click, and emailing them as PDF files.
QuickBooks
Premier: Manufacturing and Wholesale Edition
QuickBooks Manufacturing and Wholesale Edition is an all-in-one
solution recommended for manufacturers and wholesalers. QuickBooks
Manufacturing and Wholesale Edition makes it faster and easier
to create Bills of Materials, create customized pricing levels,
track inventory, sales orders, etc.
QuickBooks Manufacturing and Wholesale Edition software gives you
the convenience you want, with the control you need to manage and
analyze your business.
Key Advantages
- Create Bills of Material to easily track assembled products
and their associated costs including both material and non-material
costs.
- 11 Manufacturing and Wholesale reports show where you where
you're making money and where you aren't. See which items are
on your shelves, and which out-of-stocks are costing you sales.
- Price your products more profitably with tools that let you
create up to 100 pricing levels per item.
- The new Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet shows all your open
sales orders. And, it helps you select the orders to ship based
on the criteria that are important to you.
- The new, simplified QuickBooks Home Page gives you instant
access to bills, bank accounts, customer and vendor data, and
reports. Pay bills, print checks and track expenses with ease.
Start fast and get help when you need it. Manufacturing and Wholesale
Edition includes a chart of accounts customized for manufacturers
and wholesalers and built-in tutorials on topics like inventory
management. Plus, get FREE QuickBooks callback support for 30 days
following registration.
QuickBooks
Premier: Nonprofit Edition
QuickBooks Nonprofit Edition is an all-in-one solution recommended
to help nonprofit's easily show accountability to the Board of
Directors. QuickBooks Nonprofit Edition is recommended if your
work involves charity, religious, human service, arts, education,
or other tax-exempt groups.
Key Advantages
- Nonprofit Edition organizes your financial information the
way your Board of Directors, donors, and the IRS want to see
it.
- Automatically track your organization's finances with the Nonprofit
Chart of Accounts as you enter donations, fund programs, and
pay bills. Plus, create a budget automatically.
- Finish basic accounting tasks faster. Get direct access to
bills, bank accounts, pledges, donations, vendors, and reports
from the new simplified Home Page.
- Streamline donation processing and fundraising. Turn pledge
forms into thank you letters and receipts with just a few clicks.
See contact information, pledge status and contribution history
for any donor at a glance in the new Customer Center.
- Generate any of the 8 nonprofit-specific reports with one click.
Start fast and get help when you need it, with in-product Help
focused on nonprofit-specific issues, built-in tutorials and FREE
QuickBooks callback support for 30 days following registration.
QuickBooks
Online Edition
QuickBooks Online Edition is an online version of QuickBooks,
but instead of installing it on your computer; you access and manage
your data through a secure, encrypted Internet connection. Once
you're setup, your data resides on QuickBooks remote servers.
Key Advantages
- Access your financial data anywhere, any time. Update your
financial records, run reports, and track income and expenses
from your home, office, on the road, or anywhere you can access
an Internet-connected PC.
- Grant access to multiple users. Give employees and your accountant
limited access so they can update time sheets, sales, expenses
or review the books. No need to invest in a network.
- Maintain total control of your data. Decide who has access,
what they can see and what transactions they can make.
- Protect your data from facility disasters and hardware failures
with automatic daily backups and offsite data storage.
- Manage financial tasks easily online. Track expenses; write
checks, invoice customers, and more.
QuickBooks online is ideal for companies with multiple locations
or who have financial or other staff who telecommute frequently.
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