QuickBooks SimpleStart 2012, 1 User (PC)

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• ASIN: B005TGBGCG
• Release Date: 14 Nov 2011
  

By : Intuit
Price : £64.97

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

QuickBooks SimpleStart 2012
QuickBooks SimpleStart: Basic Time Saving Tools Intuit QuickBooks is easy accounting software designed for small business. Organise your finances all in one place so you can quickly find what you need. Easy to learn and use with no accounting knowledge necessary – QuickBooks is guaranteed easy or your money back .
QuickBooks SimpleStart offers basic accounting tools. For more features, including VAT management, please take a look at QuickBooks Pro. Not sure which QuickBooks product is right for you? Please refer to the comparison chart to help choose the right product to meet your business needs. QuickBooks 2012 products include SimpleStart, Pro, Pro + Payroll and Premier.

New to QuickBooks?Find out why QuickBooks is the UK’s No. 1 best-selling small business accounting software:

• Get Started Quickly With Guided Set Up, Easy to Learn and Use
• Step-by-step tutorials and coaching tips show you how to create invoices, record expenses and more
• Special offer: 30 day free telephone support with a QuickBooks expert
• Organise Everything in One Place and Save Time on Everyday Tasks
• Easily create and personalise invoices and quotes
• Manage customers and expenses easily – enter, track and pay bills Track How Your Business is Doing and Get Financial, Tax and Sales Reports in One Click
• Get the information you need with easy to use reports
• View income and expenditure, tax and sales

Easily Create Branded Invoices and Quotes QuickBooks accounting software lets you create invoices and quotes in seconds and email them as PDFs - you can design them just the way you want them:

• Choose from a selection of templates.
• Customise every aspect of the invoice design
• Choose which information to include and add your logo QuickBooks invoicing software lets you send branded invoices that project a more professional, cohesive image of your company. You'll impress customers every time they hear from you.

Track Sales, Expenses and Profit This easy accounting software lets you monitor your company's performance:

• See the money going in and out of your business
• Understand where your cash goes Monitor sales and identify your most profitable areas With a clear picture of how and where you make and spend your money, your business can identify opportunities and plan well for the future.

Disclaimers: 1. If you are not fully satisfied, return the product to Intuit within 60 days with a dated receipt for a full refund of your purchase price, excluding P;P.
2. GFK RT UK Accounting Software data for retail desktop units Sept 10–Aug 11.
3. QuickBooks 2012 technical support is included for 30 consecutive days from first-time registration. First-time registration must be completed within 30 days of purchase UK only, see terms and conditions inside software. Intuit reserves the right to limit the length of the telephone call.


Box Contains

CD Rom

Quick Start Guide

 

QuickBooks SimpleStart 2012, 1 User (PC)

 

Product Features

• Easily create invoices and track sales and expenses
• Customise your financial, sales and tax reports, including profit and loss and balance sheets
• Organise your finances all in one place, so you can quickly find what you need
• No accounting knowledge necessary
• Get started quickly with guided set up, easy to learn and use

Customer Reviews

My wife is a self-employed pet-carer. Until now, she has been using Excel to manager her accounts, and Word to print her invoices, which is more time-consuming than it ought to be. Quickbooks is designed to make the tasks of a very small business much easier. SimpleStart 2012 theoretically has everything she needs to run her business, but it also has some needlessly annoying features, and the ability to create quotes and to email invoices are either absent or don't work.
Installation is easy, but lengthy, and you can virtually go away and make a cup of tea while Quickbook starts up on a modest office computer. Thankfully, it runs quite quickly once it has started up. You need to type in some basic company information when you start it up for the first time, but you can go back and edit this later if you need to.
The Home screen is a flowchart, showing money coming in on the left, your business in the middle, and money going out on the right. Money coming in consists of sales receipts (where the customer paid at the time of sale) and invoices/receive payments for work you invoice in arrears. Both flows can turn into "Deposits" if you pay them into your bank account. There's an option to accept credit cards: this requires that you sign up with RBS WorldPay, which incurs a monthly fee and a per-transaction payment.
The ability to customise invoices is very useful, and it's extremely flexible. The default invoice has Item, Quantity, Rate and Amount on each line, but my wife wanted to list a date for each item, and to hide the quentity (which for her is always 1). It was quite easy to achieve this using the "Customise" dropdown. Usefully, you don't need to create customers or products in advance: you can create them both "on the fly" as you type in an invoice. This is just as well, because there's no way to import customer or product information from Excel.
You can print invoices. Theoretically, you can also email them as PDFs; however, there doesn't appear to be a way to set Quickbooks up to use your email client. When you first try to email an invoice, you get taken to a preferences page that has no information about how to set up email (the online help shows a completely different version of the Preferences screen).
On the "money out" side, you can write cheques, record expenses or issue refunds. In each case, you can print cheques if you buy Quickbooks cheques (optional stationery). I'm not entirely ssure why you need a separate "write cheques" option - presumably expenses and refunds together cover all options? If you issue a refund, you can either record it as paid, offset it against an invoice or hold it for later payment. If you're recording deposits and cheque payments accurately, you'll also be able to show your current bank balance.
There's no ability to manage stock or pay any employees; however, there are icons on the Home screen for both. If you click on them, you are prompted to upgrade to Quickbooks Pro: an upselling opportunity for the software company.
If the package could email invoices as advertised, this package would be ideal for a self-employed person. If you don't have the need to email invoices, it could save you a lot of valuable time.
Note: I couldn't find how to create estimates until someone from Intuit helped me out. That's because I had clicked the wrong option when I first started the program: if you say you don't create estimates then the "Estimates" icon vanishes from the Home screen. You can turn it back on through the File = Preferences dialogue, and the icon magically reappears.

If you are starting out in business this product is ideal. It's not sophisticated and I got started pretty quickly and found the set up easy to use - just follow the guide. There is also a straightforward "how to" with the CD.
Do you need to send quotes and invoices via email on a PDF attachment? Yes - then this is ideal for you. I've only used if for invoicing. Nothing else, but I can't wait to use the SimpleStart 2012 Pro.
If there has to be a down side, it's a one licence product but you can buy more licences if you need to.

 

QuickBooks SimpleStart 2012, 1 User (PC)