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Product Features
- QuickBooks makes bookkeeping easy
- Easy invoicing. Professional looking quotes - Create invoices, and send them by email
- Cash flow reports. Track sales, expenses and profit – Designed to take the hassle out of bookkeeping
- Manage your VAT. New VAT reporting and ‘eFile’ - Save time, create your VAT return in minutes
- Multi-currency – Simple tools to help you track exchange rates
- Analyse customer and supplier data - Get quick access to key data in one place
- Company Snapshot – One screen which instantly shows where your business stands
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Product Description
Product Description
This item is in English Language.
Manufacturer's Description
 Generate invoices and quotes quickly and with ease |
 Track and view the progress of your business finances |
 Get to grips with how money flows through your business |
 Multi-currency support with easy conversion |
Invoices, estimates, bills, VAT and cash flow. Manage your company's finances with QuickBooks Pro, the easy accounting software designed for businesses. Quicker, easier and more flexible than paper and spreadsheets. Be more efficient: track cash flow, invoices and payments in one place.
Lots of customers, lots of tasks - it's no wonder producing quotes, invoices and chasing payments seems to take as long as the work itself. QuickBooks SimpleStart cuts these overheads to free up your time.
Generate invoices and quotes using details you've already entered - in seconds. See the status of orders at a glance: are they invoiced, paid, or overdue? Send out invoices, quotes and reminders by email, in batches - saving time.
Track, View and Control Your Cash Flow
Cash flow is king. But that doesn't mean it should boss you around. Use QuickBooks Pro business accounting software to get to grips with how money flows through your business:
Save time by generating purchase orders, invoices and receipts in seconds
Check when bills are due and ensure you can pay them - before you write the cheque
Track your stock, set reorder points and issue purchase orders
Your VAT Return Done Fast and Right, Every Quarter
VAT. A headache, right?
QuickBooks Pro uses financial information you've already entered to generate your VAT returns - automatically.
Freedom from VAT! Create your VAT return in minutes and file it online
File online from within QuickBooks - it's fully tested with HMRC systems
The latest VAT rules are incorporated, so your returns are always correct
Use the Currency - Even if You Don't Speak the Language
Work with suppliers and customers in their own currencies - or convert back to pounds to see where you stand.
Download the latest exchange rates and use them automatically
Deal in as many currencies as you like - and switch between them easily
One Screen With All the Information You Need
See the state of your business, at a glance, with the easy-to-understand Company Snapshot. It puts customer information at your fingertips.
The Company Snapshot gives you a clear overview of your business
See who owes you money - and what bills you need to pay
Reminders show what you need to do by the end of the day
In addition to the Company Snapshot, you can access the Customer and Supplier Centres to see full information about everyone you do business with.
This item is in English Language.
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77 of 77 people found the following review helpful
As an accountant i use a number of different book keeping packages, and in the case of Quickbooks have been using it since version 5. As far as the 2010 version goes, adding back in multicurrency was a welcome change, and overall performance wise it's a bit quicker than the 2008 version as well. VAT has been changed somewhat again, with the main difference being that you can now file online through the program, although beyond that there arent that many changes.
As far as various versions and windows 7 goes, you can actually run anything from V.2005 onwards on windows 7 (either 32 bit or 64 bit) - although 2005 and 2006 do need to be patched before you start using it, although once this has been done i've found anything 05 and onwards very stable.
For someone looking at their first piece of book keeping software, it is still by far the most user friendly, simple, and flexible software out there, and while you could keep your figures on an excel spreadsheet, the main benefit with quickbooks is the flexible reporting, which allows a business owner to see exactly how he is doing at any given time. The other benefit, is that figures tend to be much better controlled through a proper book keeping package, which should save you in accounting fees as well (and given average chargeout rates, it might save you the cost in the first year).
The only proviso i would say however is that for new users not familiar with book keeping software, some help might be needed in getting started, as it can be a little daunting for someone looking at this for the first time.
As far as various versions and windows 7 goes, you can actually run anything from V.2005 onwards on windows 7 (either 32 bit or 64 bit) - although 2005 and 2006 do need to be patched before you start using it, although once this has been done i've found anything 05 and onwards very stable.
For someone looking at their first piece of book keeping software, it is still by far the most user friendly, simple, and flexible software out there, and while you could keep your figures on an excel spreadsheet, the main benefit with quickbooks is the flexible reporting, which allows a business owner to see exactly how he is doing at any given time. The other benefit, is that figures tend to be much better controlled through a proper book keeping package, which should save you in accounting fees as well (and given average chargeout rates, it might save you the cost in the first year).
The only proviso i would say however is that for new users not familiar with book keeping software, some help might be needed in getting started, as it can be a little daunting for someone looking at this for the first time.
78 of 80 people found the following review helpful
Context: I am a one-person consulting company, so fairly easy accounts - no parts bought in, payroll etc. I have just upgraded from QB Pro 2006 to QB Pro 2010.
The software comes with a warning that it may take a half-day to upgrade because of the way the new version handles VAT and you may need to recreate form templates. That estimate was pretty accurate for me. Having the new version go through your whole VAT transaction history spotting discrepancies was daunting, but turned out fine as there were minimal errors. The screens taking you through the process were slightly confusing. I imagine the whole experience would be a lot more troublesome if QB didn't like the way you'd handled your VAT previously.
(In a throwback to the Intuit's notorious offhandedness to its customers, the programme states that it needs to take us through this process as users have not used the software properly in the past, leading to inaccurate returns. Not the software's problem of course......). QB 2010 VAT report screens are now geared to online filing direct from QB and take a bit of understanding if you were used to filing through completing the forms on the HMRC website.
When it's up and running, the new version is either reassuringly familiar or depressingly familiar ..... Not much has changed on the screen. It is still very old school and clunky compared eg with Microsoft or Adobe products. Recreating my single invoice template took me the best part of two hours because of the need to move text boxes around the page, align them, change fonts etc etc. Would have taken ten minutes in Word.
You definitely need to ensure that you retain your old version of QB until you are entirely happy with the upgrade, as QB 2010 files cannot be read by QB 2006.
Overall, I had to upgrade because I wanted Windows 7 compatibility (QB 2006 didn't seem reliable enough to me when I tried it in XP mode on Windows 7). Otherwise I don't think it's worth the bother and expense of upgrading.
If you're new to QB I would think long and hard before using it. The good news is that you eventually get comprehensive accounts, good reporting possibilities, professional-looking invoices linked with timesheets (in Pro) but it's a long learning curve with a not very user-friendly piece of kit. My colleagues all use Excel spreadsheets and more reliance on an accountant, which works fine for them.
IMHO the UK is very poorly served with user-friendly accounting software for very small businesses, ironic considering we are supposed to be a nation of them...
The software comes with a warning that it may take a half-day to upgrade because of the way the new version handles VAT and you may need to recreate form templates. That estimate was pretty accurate for me. Having the new version go through your whole VAT transaction history spotting discrepancies was daunting, but turned out fine as there were minimal errors. The screens taking you through the process were slightly confusing. I imagine the whole experience would be a lot more troublesome if QB didn't like the way you'd handled your VAT previously.
(In a throwback to the Intuit's notorious offhandedness to its customers, the programme states that it needs to take us through this process as users have not used the software properly in the past, leading to inaccurate returns. Not the software's problem of course......). QB 2010 VAT report screens are now geared to online filing direct from QB and take a bit of understanding if you were used to filing through completing the forms on the HMRC website.
When it's up and running, the new version is either reassuringly familiar or depressingly familiar ..... Not much has changed on the screen. It is still very old school and clunky compared eg with Microsoft or Adobe products. Recreating my single invoice template took me the best part of two hours because of the need to move text boxes around the page, align them, change fonts etc etc. Would have taken ten minutes in Word.
You definitely need to ensure that you retain your old version of QB until you are entirely happy with the upgrade, as QB 2010 files cannot be read by QB 2006.
Overall, I had to upgrade because I wanted Windows 7 compatibility (QB 2006 didn't seem reliable enough to me when I tried it in XP mode on Windows 7). Otherwise I don't think it's worth the bother and expense of upgrading.
If you're new to QB I would think long and hard before using it. The good news is that you eventually get comprehensive accounts, good reporting possibilities, professional-looking invoices linked with timesheets (in Pro) but it's a long learning curve with a not very user-friendly piece of kit. My colleagues all use Excel spreadsheets and more reliance on an accountant, which works fine for them.
IMHO the UK is very poorly served with user-friendly accounting software for very small businesses, ironic considering we are supposed to be a nation of them...
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
I have been using Quickbooks for 15 Years and this is the best version yet. It is easy to use, Multicurrency is back, it looks better than ever, in fact I have no complaints.
I am a bookkeeper with several clients, over the years I have recommended Quickbooks to most of my clients as it is much more user friendly, especially for people less familiar with accounting packages. Recently I have needed to build customised reports, which I have found very easy. I need the multicurrency feature for a couple of my clients and I have always found Quickbooks multicurrency flexible and clear.
I found upgrading from QB2006 to 2010 a very quick process, taking about 15 minutes, although I was disappointed that it did not copy the invoice templates across. The look of the interface is clear and the supplier/customer/employee centres make getting a snapshot easier.
I always recommend Quickbooks to my clients and having tried, and had to use, most of the other packages over the years, I now feel Quickbooks is the only software which makes this work, which at times can be tedious almost fun.
I am a bookkeeper with several clients, over the years I have recommended Quickbooks to most of my clients as it is much more user friendly, especially for people less familiar with accounting packages. Recently I have needed to build customised reports, which I have found very easy. I need the multicurrency feature for a couple of my clients and I have always found Quickbooks multicurrency flexible and clear.
I found upgrading from QB2006 to 2010 a very quick process, taking about 15 minutes, although I was disappointed that it did not copy the invoice templates across. The look of the interface is clear and the supplier/customer/employee centres make getting a snapshot easier.
I always recommend Quickbooks to my clients and having tried, and had to use, most of the other packages over the years, I now feel Quickbooks is the only software which makes this work, which at times can be tedious almost fun.
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