Product Description

Item #: 31704G. QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack 2008 combines bookkeeping software with essential tools for your small business. It's the simplest way to track sales and expenses.

Product Description
QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack 2008 - complete package
Category: Business applications
Subcategory: Business - accounting, business - commercial finance / tax preparation, business - payroll software
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 1 user
License Pricing: Standard
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #930 in Software
• Brand: Intuit
• Model: 404175
• Released on: 2007-10-11
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Features

• Lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently
• Helps you track sales and expenses as you go, simplifying your bookkeeping so you'll be ready at tax time
• Simple to learn and use--get up and running in 15 minutes
• Track sales, expenses, and customers in one convenient place
• When your business grows, existing data converts easily into higher-end editions of QuickBooks

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QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack is the simplest way to track sales and expenses with just the right tools to show you how much money you are making and to help you get organized for tax time.

Movies See how QuickBooks Simple Start can help your business succeed. What Simple Start Can Do for You (1:35) Simple Start Lets You Manage Money In and Out With Ease (1:54) Maintain Complete and Accurate Records for Tax Time (1:32) Simple Start Features Overview (2:45) Bill a Customer (1:53) Receive a Payment (1:40) Record a Deposit (1:00) Set Up a Checking Account (2:10) Writing Checks (1:44) Create Essential Reports (1:20)

QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack combines bookkeeping software with essential tools for your small business. It's the simplest way to track sales and expenses.

• Getting started quickly with easy-to-use software and a step-by-step training CD that teaches you the basic accounting knowledge
• Easily keep track of money coming in and going out of your business
• Organize customer and vendor information all in one software program--so nothing slips through the cracks
• No more switching between spreadsheets and paper files, data is organized and easy to find.
• Automatically track tax-related income and expenses
• Essential reports on profit and loss, sales and expenses, are instantly generated based on transactions you've already entered.
• Easily import your existing financial data from Microsoft Excel
• Project a professional image with 250 Standard or Voucher Checks
• Protect your financial data and important files from computer virus', loss or disaster with 1 year QuickBooks Online Backup Service
• 30 days of Simple Start email support included
• Guaranteed easy, or your money back.

From the simple desktop to the familiar forms and helpful guidance, everything works just the way you want it to.

Simple Start's onscreen forms look like the checks, invoices, and sales receipts you use in your business every day.

Simple to Get Started. Simple to Use.
Answer three easy questions, and you're up and running.

It's incredibly simple
Simple Start isn't someone else's idea of how you'd like your business to run–it's your idea. We listened to hundreds of small business owners talk about their difficulties and desires. You'll see what we mean, as soon as you try it. From the simple desktop to the familiar forms and helpful guidance, everything works just the way you want it to.

Import data from Microsoft Excel
If you've been using Excel spreadsheets to track your sales and expenses, now you can import your existing data from Excel directly into Simple Start. You'll save time and avoid the hassle of manually entering your data.

Get up and running in three easy steps
Simple Start is so easy to use, you don't need a thick manual–just a QuickStart card that tells you how to get started in three easy steps. You'll be up and running in less than 15 minutes:

1. Insert the CD into your CD drive.
2. Answer three easy questions to customize Simple Start for your needs.
3. Start working.

No accounting knowledge needed!
Simple Start's onscreen forms look like the checks, invoices, and sales receipts you use in your business every day. The moment you see them, you'll know how to use them.

Get everything you need, and nothing you don't
Simple Start lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently, but it doesn't overwhelm you with tools you won't use and shouldn't have to pay for.

As your business grows, QuickBooks has a full line of small business financial software to meet your needs. It's easy to upgrade from either edition of Simple Start to QuickBooks: Pro, Premier, or Online Edition.

Simple Start organizes everything from customers and vendors, to sales, estimates, and invoices, to receipts, deposits, checks, and expenses---all in one place.

Valuable business tools and services
Essential tools to help you manage your small business better including: a training CD, 250 checks, and online backup service.

Get up to speed quickly with the Learning Accounting Essentials training CD

• Learn accounting basics with easy–to–understand terminology.
• See how to set up Simple Start so you'll track sales and expenses correctly.
• Get step–by–step instructions on how to use Simple Start to perform basic tasks including invoicing customers, receiving payments, paying bills, and running reports.

Protect your financial data with QuickBooks Online Backup Service

• Receive a 1 year subscription to the service with 1GB of storage.
• Schedule automatic backups so you don't have to worry about data loss.
• Protect your critical data from computer viruses, natural disasters, and more.
• Access your files quickly and easily from any PC with an Internet connection using this Internet-based service.

Project a professional image with 250 Standard or Voucher Checks

• Save time compared to hand–writing checks.
• Project a more professional image for your business.
• Use checks with your printer and Simple Start software.

Grows with your business
It's easy to move up from Simple Start to more advanced QuickBooks products.

Simple Start grows with your business
As your business grows, QuickBooks has a full line of small business financial software to meet your needs. It's easy to upgrade from either edition of Simple Start to QuickBooks: Pro, Premier, or Online Edition. All the information you enter into Simple Start can be automatically transferred to your new version of QuickBooks.

Note: Simple Start is for new QuickBooks users. Simple Start cannot import data from prior versions of QuickBooks: Basic, Pro or Premier Editions, Quicken, or Peachtree.

Trust the solution recommended by businesses and accountant
With 3 million users, QuickBooks is the most widely used small business accounting software. It's recommended by accountants over any other product. A 10–year history of continuous improvement assures you of the simplest, most flexible software for your business.

Simple Start keeps track of tax-related income and expenses year-round as you write checks and receive payments, so there's no need to scramble at tax time.

You'll always know where your business stands with Simple Start's reports.

Choose from sales receipt, invoice, estimate, and credit memo form templates that you can customize to help you present a branded, professional image.

Learn Simple Start features quickly with in–product tutorials that let you practice essential tasks until you're ready to do them on your own.

Track Sales, Expenses, and Customers in One Place
Simple Start makes it easy to track the money coming in and going out of your business.

Keep everything together in one place
Stop digging through piles of paper, switching applications, or searching through files to find the information you need. Simple Start organizes everything from customers and vendors, to sales, estimates, and invoices, to receipts, deposits, checks, and expenses--all in one place.

Create estimates, invoices, and sales receipts
With Simple Start you can easily create professional-looking estimates, invoices, and sales receipts just by entering information into simple forms. No more toggling back and forth between spreadsheets and a word processor to create bills and track them. To save you even more time, you can easily turn an estimate into an invoice, or an invoice into a payment.

Record your expenses quickly and painlessly
Tired of rustling through check registers and credit card statements to see where your money is going? Use Simple Start to write checks and track your expenses. Every time you pay a bill, Simple Start keeps your records up-to-date so you'll know where you stand.

Manage payroll within QuickBooks and save time (additional fees apply)
QuickBooks Payroll services help make your payroll easier and more accurate. They offer automatic calculations, the latest tax tables and forms, at–a–glance screens to manage activities, and built–in Direct Deposit.

QuickBooks Payroll is a subscription–based service that works right inside QuickBooks, so there's no double–entry, and nothing new to learn.

Accept credit cards in Simple Start
Everything you need to accept credit transactions is in Simple Start. There's no need to buy additional hardware or software. Credit card sales are automatically processed as you enter them in Simple Start, so all your financial information is organized in one place.

Complete and accurate records at tax time
Make tax time a snap when all of your information is organized. No last–minute panic!

Get the numbers you need
Simple Start keeps track of tax-related income and expenses year-round as you write checks and receive payments, so there's no need to scramble at tax time.

The "Income Tax Summary" report helps you complete federal income tax forms. Print it out, and copy the totals to Schedule C and other tax forms. You can also give the report to your account or download the numbers into TurboTax, the best-selling tax preparation software (sold separately).

One more click creates your "Sales Tax Due," which summarizes the sales tax you owe to your city, state, or county tax boards. It's really that simple.

Know exactly where your business stands
Instantly create reports on profit & loss, sales, expenses, unpaid invoices, and more.

Essential business information at your fingertips
You'll always know where your business stands with Simple Start's reports. See who owes you money and how much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Click on any item in the report to zoom in for the details–all the way down to individual transactions.

Look more professional and save time
Spend less time on your bookkeeping and paperwork and more time building your business.

Professional–looking templates you can customize
Choose from sales receipt, invoice, estimate, and credit memo form templates that you can customize to help you present a branded, professional image. You can change styles, colors, and fonts. You can show or hide fields. You can even include your company logo!

Calculate totals accurately and automatically
No more erasing and rewriting totals or double–checking calculations. Simple Start helps keep your transactions and records accurate by doing all the math for you, including sales tax, discounts, and markups. If you change a transaction, any figures linked to it update instantly.

Re–use information instead of retyping it
Type information about a customer, vendor, or product one time, and never type it again. Enter the first few letters on any invoice, check, or other form and Simple Start fills the rest in automatically. Easily create new estimates by duplicating and editing existing ones. And when you finish a job, click a button to turn your estimate into an invoice. Billing has never been so easy!

We're here to help
Whether you're a do–it–yourselfer or you prefer to call in the experts, you'll find the answer you're looking for in our various help and support resources.

Free e–mail support for the first 30 days
Get personalized help for the first 30 days after you register the product. Simply go online to submit your question, and a support expert will e–mail you back. It's included with Simple Start–at no extra charge.

Free installation, upgrade, and error message assistance
If you ever have trouble installing or upgrading your software or if you need help with a QuickBooks specific error message, we're happy to offer you free support.

Two–minute tutorials and help screens
Learn Simple Start features quickly with in–product tutorials that let you practice essential tasks until you're ready to do them on your own. While you're working, you can get quick answers from the onscreen help.

Online Knowledge Base and User Community
You can search our online Knowledge Base to find answers and helpful tips any hour of the day or night. Or, visit the QuickBooks User Community to connect with other QuickBooks users and experts to ask questions and share advice.

Local QuickBooks Experts
Find a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who can help you get set up and provide accounting advice tailored to your business. (Fees may apply.) Learn More

Paid Support
Get round–the–clock access to technical support experts who can answer your QuickBooks questions. (Fees apply.)

Customer Reviews

Its FREE!
Simple Start was earlier priced at $99, and is now FREE (via Intuit download)! Given QuickBooks' famed ease-of-use, that puts it into the no-brainer category. Its targeted towards small businesses who are just getting started keeping their books using software. I can imagine every Accountant and CPA recommending this to their clients so they make tax time less burdensome.

Moreover, once you create your books using QuickBooks Simple Start, you can migrate with a single click into the more powerful QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier and QuickBooks Enterprise [that is what Intuit hopes you do long-term!].

This version also enables Excel imports/exports, and has the same list length as Pro.

This version doesn't load previous quickbook files
This version doesn't load previous versions of QuickBooks so it is fairly useless for anyone using a previous version.

This version can also be downloaded free of charge at the Intuit web-site so I can't see any particular reason to buy it.

Product limitations weren't obvious to me in the product description on Amazon.

QuickBooks Simple Start
Quickbooks Simple Start is not so simple to use unless you go through all of the tutorials and I wonder if even then it is simple to use. It is not direct in its icons. I use Quicken 6.0 for my personal recordkeepinig. What a nice program. Very clear. You know where to find your accounts. You know where to find your categories. Not with Quickbooks Simple Start. That stuff is buried somewhere and there is no way to change the icons to let you get easily to various sections of the program. The reconcile feature is buried in the pull down menus under "For your Accountant". That's dumb for a small business. A small business owner does most everything when it comes to accounting. I even do my own taxes. It's difficult to figure out how to pay your sales tax with the program. All of the various bank and credit card accounts are lumped together with your categories for income, expense, etc. If I had known it was like this I certainly would not have purchased it. I think I would have been better off using the free Microsoft money account than paying $100.00 for this fluff. It does keep the records but there is some puzzlement as to how to set them up.