Product Description

Item #: 31701G. The QuickBooks Pro 2008 is small business accounting software that makes accounting easy with tools to organize your finances all in one place.Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them - in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2008. Your company file and preferences will transfer automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Product Description
QuickBooks Pro 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 Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200 in Software
• Brand: Intuit
• Model: 403697
• Released on: 2007-10-11
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .65 pounds

Features

• Create invoices and reports in a flash from more than 100 professionally designed invoices, estimates, statements, and other forms
• Includes built-in tutorials, onscreen help, and free QuickBooks callback support for 30 days following registration
• Tracks all your financial information in one place, including sales, expenses, and business loans
• View customer, vendor, employee, and payroll information exactly the way you need it: with contact information, transaction histories, and balances, all visible in a single screen
• Share data with Excel, Word, and Outlook; easily convert Peachtree data to QuickBooks

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QuickBooks Pro Edition 2008 makes accounting easy with tools to organize your finances all in one place. Complete tasks like payroll1, invoicing, bill tracking and check-writing. With one click, view past-due invoices or overdue bills. Or instantly see your entire account history with any customer or vendor.

Easily track sales and expenses. Quickly create your own professional-looking custom forms such as customer estimated, invoices and reports by using any of the over 100 included templates. Share your data with programs like Word and Excel.

With QuickBooks Pro, you’ll spend less time on routine tasks and more time on business.

Movies See how QuickBooks Pro can help your business succeed. Pro Edition Overview (2:13) New Features (2:44) Quickly Pay Bills and Print Checks (0:51) Invoice a Customer and Apply Payments (1:17)

Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily.

Easily Get Started

IMPROVED! Import Data from Excel
Excel templates make it easy for you to import your existing customers, vendors, or product information into QuickBooks. You can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding QuickBooks column. Save these settings to use again the next time you want to pull in data. You can even preview your data before you transfer it.

Import Data from Quicken, Peachtree, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Access the Quicken conversion tool in QuickBooks to convert your data from Quicken 1998 through 2007. If you are currently running your business using Peachtree 2001-2008, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006, and Microsoft Office Accounting/ Office Accounting Express, you can also easily convert your data into QuickBooks 2008.

Get Set Up and Running Quickly
Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.

NEW! Step by step coaching for new users to help you learn QuickBooks faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The new QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.

Learn QuickBooks Quickly with Built-in Tutorials
Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them--in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.

Upgrade your QuickBooks effortlessly
Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2008. Your company file and preferences will transfer automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Get Help When You Need It

NEW! Find Answers Fast
Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily as you work in QuickBooks, so you can get back to business. You'll find answers to most questions in QuickBooks in-product onscreen Help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.

Enjoy Free QuickBooks support included for 30 days from registration for questions submitted online
Have a question about QuickBooks? Submit your questions online at www.quickbooks.com/contactme. We'll email or call you back usually in 30 minutes or less. No waiting on hold!

Tap into the knowledge of the QuickBooks User Community
Visit the QuickBooks User Community to connect with other QuickBooks users and experts to ask questions and share advice. Search or browse through a variety of discussion topics or post your own question.

Choose from dozens of pre-designed QuickBooks templates, or send the key invoice data to a customizable Microsoft Word document.

Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Save Time on Everyday Tasks

Easily track and pay bills; set due date reminders
Record bills as they arrive directly from the QuickBooks homepage. Never mistakenly miss a bill due date--QuickBooks will alert you with due date reminders. And when you are ready to pay bills, QuickBooks shows you all bills that are outstanding.

Track inventory assemblies and finished goods
Let QuickBooks track your raw materials and finished goods to avoid overbuying and backorders. Combine them in the appropriate quantities to create "finished goods" items. Each time you log a sale or complete a work order, QuickBooks deducts materials as it increases finished goods. Instantly see how many assemblies you can build with current stock.

Quickly create estimates & invoices
When it's time to bill your customer, turn any estimate into an invoice with one click. Choose from dozens of pre-designed QuickBooks templates, or send the key invoice data to a customizable Microsoft Word document.

NEW! Send estimates, invoices & reports directly from QuickBooks using MS Outlook or Outlook Express
Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

Download credit card and bank statements
Download cleared checks, deposits, and credit card transactions into QuickBooks to save time on data entry and reconciliation.

See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer with Customer Center.

Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments with Vendor Center.

See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid in Employee Center.

Stay Organized and on Top of Your Business

Organize data all in one place with Customer, Vendor, and Employee Centers

• Customer Center
  Follow up on past-due accounts and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer.
• Vendor Center
  Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills, and payments. Check your account status to avoid incurring late charges. Initiate new payments or purchase orders with one click.
• Employee Center
  See contact information for any employee and a complete list of checks paid.

Track sales, sales taxes, and customer payments
Easily record sales and create sales receipts for your customers. Set up sales tax codes, and QuickBooks will automatically charge sales tax on all invoices, sales receipts, and other sales forms. When it's time to pay sales tax to your local sales tax board, QuickBooks will also help you figure out how much you owe.

Track employee time and expenses to bill clients
Track time by employee, service, and customer with timesheets in QuickBooks. When you select a client to bill, QuickBooks automatically reminds you of unbilled time and expenses for that client.

Easily export or enter data into TurboTax, or send to your accountant
Be ready for tax time. QuickBooks helps you assign each account in your Chart of Accounts to a specific line on tax forms, so all income and expenses are accurately categorized. Easily export your tax data into TurboTax or provide your accountant accurate data to simplify the tax process.

Create 100+ customizable reports, like Profit & Loss Statements and sales reports, in two clicks
QuickBooks comes with more than 100 pre-designed, customizable business reports and a Report Navigator that makes it easy to choose the right one. Create reports,like your Profit and Loss statement and Balance Sheet in two clicks. Plus, you can get the totals you need for tax forms instantly.

Efficiently Manage Employees and Contract Workers

Manage payroll and payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit 1(paid subscription required)
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel and save it as a PDF file.

Prepare and print 1099s & 1096s for contract workers & federal filing
The QuickBooks 1099 and 1096 wizard will walk you through all the steps to create and print tax forms for you and your independent contractors.

Manage Products, Services and Inventory

Track inventory, set reorder points, and create purchase orders
Easily track your raw materials and finished goods to avoid overbuying and backorders. Import your inventory from Excel or record directly in QuickBooks. You can even indicate re-order points for each inventory good and turn on reminders to automatically let you know when its time to reorder. Create and customize purchase orders directly from the Home Page, and automatically receive against P.O.s when recording bills

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact.

Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Word documents.

Easily share your accounting records with your accountant.

Flexibility to Work the Way You Want

Export company data to Excel spreadsheets
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create letters with Word using customer data
Use your company data from your QuickBooks reports and export it to new or existing Excel spreadsheets while keeping all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks, Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Create and customize professional-looking forms
Create professional-looking forms by choosing from more than 100 expertly designed forms, including invoices, estimates, and sales receipts. Or create one for yourself in Microsoft Word. You can also customize the templates by adding your company logo and tag line to present your business uniquely to your customers.

IMPROVED! Allow your accountant to review data & make changes while you work.
Easily share your accounting records with your accountant. Increase your productivity by allowing your accountant to review historical data and make changes while you work. Seamlessly import your accountant's changes back into your file for improved accuracy.

Easily map and obtain directions to your saved customer, vendor and employee addresses--right from within QuickBooks!
Open up any record in the Customer, Vendor and Employee centers to access links to maps and directions to customer and vendor locations or employee addresses.

Access your QuickBooks data from any secure Internet connection
Access your financial data even when you're not in the office by using QuickBooks Remote Access, powered by WebEx. All you need is an Internet-connected PC. All transmissions are protected by encryption technology used by financial institutions.

Other Tools to Meet Your Business Needs

Print checks and forms directly from QuickBooks to keep better, more accurate records while also saving time

• Accurate records: All your information will be updated and stored in QuickBooks.
• Save time: Three out of four QuickBooks customers save at least one-half the time printing checks vs. handwriting them.
• Check out our deposit slips, envelopes, tax forms, invoices, stamps, and labels--all designed to work with QuickBooks.

We guarantee your checks will work with QuickBooks and your printer, and they will be accepted by any financial institution in the United States–or we will refund or replace your order within 60 days of purchase. Learn More

Save time by accepting all major credit cards and debit cards with QuickBooks Merchant Services
Built into your QuickBooks software, QuickBooks Merchant Services is easy to set up and use. No new hardware, software, or phone lines are required. When you make a sale, the data is automatically recorded in QuickBooks. QuickBooks Merchant Services requires no additional data-entry, and you won't waste hours searching for errors. You can process sales on screens you already know and use. Reconcile quickly, without headaches. This credit card processing from QuickBooks has no teaser rates, no hidden fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts.

Keep track of your inventory and customer information while you ring up sales
QuickBooks Point of Sale software and hardware save you the time and trouble of doing it yourself, making it easier to focus on the products and services that will keep your customers coming back. Pair Point of Sale with QuickBooks financial software and you can transfer sales information to your financial software–in one click.

NEW! Quickly capture billable hours online and from Outlook Calendar
Free 60-day trial! Time Tracker is the simplest way to track and record employee and contractor time in QuickBooks. Your employees can track their hours from anywhere, using a timesheet on the Web and, now by designating meetings, emails, and appointments in their Outlook calendar for billing! You can download an entire set of timesheets into QuickBooks with one click. Administrators can review and edit timesheets before submitting to ensure accuracy, as well as run custom reports on submitted time.

Meet key business needs with third-party software found at QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace
Find industry-specific solutions that work with QuickBooks and help solve your unique business challenges including specialized inventory and order management, scheduling, document management, multiple billing rates, complex estimating, and project management.

Customer Reviews

QB 08 NEEDS A LOT OF WORK
This 2008 program is the worst intuit product I have ever used. Sometimes more isn't better: it is just more. More time, More space, More problems, More aggravation. I have been using Quick Books since 1997, on a verity of computers running different platforms. It is long on ascetic form and short on function. I use it for work so come January 1st, I am going to find another program. This program costs me about two billable hours for each account, and I simply can't afford to lose that kind of time. If you aren't using it for business and are essentially a novice and need all of the redundancies it may work for you just fine.

I purchased the 2008 product because we had acquired two new computers using the Vista Protocols, I also work for clients who are still using windows 98, and that is a nightmare, surprisingly one of computers it runs the best on is running the windows 2000me. After about a month of trying to get the 2005 edition to work with the vista and being informed that the 2005 product was no longer going to be supported by updates after the 2008 release we decided to switch.

Here are my problems if anyone has a found a work around I will be all ears, INTUIT, has none, although they are aware of them.

1. The 2008 edition uses a lot of third party software, Google search, spell check, their own automatic update service, etcetera, and if you use it in tandem with the quick books customer manager you also have a whole new can of worms.

2. When opening the program it goes searching and starts all of these other programs but not in an orderly fashion. So it will hit a "program busy switch to" error about every two seconds. This makes the time frame for opening the program about ten minutes long, but it isn't ten minutes you can go have a cup of coffee and return; it is ten minutes that you have to sit there and click on the server busy switch to button. I had to hit mine 121 times before my largest file loaded. YES I COUNTED EVERY FRICKING FRACKING TIME, and if frustration were a marketable commodity, I would be a rich woman.

3. After you have spent the last ten minutes trying to get this program to open, then you have to put in the password and try to get the file you need to work with open, another five minutes of the same stuff, to get that to open.

4. They have decided to locate the new files in the public area of your my documents folder, four folders deep, create a short cut when you get there and place it on your desktop, you will need it. This is different than the location of the QB 2005 files so it is almost impossible to open and convert the new files, it can't find them..You will get the 6123-0 error... The work around for this is....AND THIS IS IMPORTANT...REBUILD (Don't even bother with the verify button) on your tool bar [file-utilities-rebuild] YOUR 2005 FILES and save them to disk....THEN restore them to the 08 edition they will restore and convert in the same process, and they will go to the new location, and by the way the backing up in this program is a real nightmare but I will get to that in a moment.

5. The help screens are all online; make sure you have your ISP open and your account signed on before you hit the help button. While you are trying to open them so they can tell you the above information you get the accursed program busy switch to error, just keep hitting the button, if you hit the cancel button you will have to start the process over. It well may throw you offline or out of the program entirely.

6. after the thirty minutes or so it takes to open this program so that you can do ten minutes of work, it is now time to back it up. AND YOU NEED TO BACK IT UP EVERYTIME, back up files have the file extension of .qbb, these files can be restored and over written. The files you work with and open are .qbw files and these are read only files, they can't be overwritten or deleted. Now, remember that can't find the file error for whatever reason about one of every six times you try to open this it is either corrupt or it simply can't find it, just restore the .qbb file from your back up disk, I use a gigabyte USB jump drive and an SD card. Unless this is a brand new file that you have created in 2008, you will need to REBUILD the file every time before you back it up because you will get the can't copy headers - file not backed up error on back up about every other time you back it up. This requires two back up locations and another thirty minutes. UNCHECK the verify and back up option and choose the back up without verifying option, UNCHECK the date which installs a separate backup file each time you back up for three separate occasions. Save 1 with the dated file extension once a week and overwrite the rest.

This is a trade off between crash security, and computer space and your time. IF you have done the rebuild more than twice and it still doesn't back up, and then go to the company files, remember the icon I told you to store on the desktop, find the .qbw file and copy and paste it into your back up drive. THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH ROOM ON YOUR BACK UP DEVICE. When your open file fails and only if you do not have a .qbb file to restore because it would not back up.

First Step: You will have first to go into the company files (remember that desktop shortcut) and rename the corrupt file that is in your company folder as it is a read only file and it can not be over written. I rename mine corrupt file so I don't make any mistake about which one doesn't work later.

Second Step: Then go get the back up .qbw file, Edit copy and paste it into your company file folder, you can not use the program restore feature for a qbw file. Make sure you can now open the new company file, and then you can follow the next procedure to delete the old corrupt file.

DELETEING A CORRUPT FILE: From the explore computer screen, in the company file, right click on the renamed corrupt file, go to properties, click on the archive file button, then you will be able to delete this corrupt file.

If you already have purchased this program: things that I found helpful.
1. Open and sign on to your ISP account, go to intuit and create an account in the user community and set it up to notify you for the latest bugs fixes. IF you have Intuit mail read it before you ever open the program, this has saved me several hours.

2. GO to the help menu and shut off the automatic update. I manually update when I finish my work and this helps to speed up the start up process. Go to the google desk top and shut down the RSS Feeds and the other news feeds, the photo slide show and everything but the search line. You will need to open each of these gadgets and exit them. You can turn them back on after you are finished working if you want them.

3. Go to the preferences menu and shut off the centers and the sales pitches, these will get turned back on every time you update but if you shut them down after each update it will take less time to load your file and the sales pitches won't randomly appear every time you open the file. IF they had spent half as much time on the program as they did on the built in sales pitches it would have been a much better program.

4. Open a register, a report, or write checks screen, that you use all of the time, hit the view on the tool bar then add it to the tool bar, customize the tool bar to whatever you use the most, I use memorized transactions so I have that on my tool bar, you can move the icons up and down so the ones you use the most show, when I click on it, it directly opens the memorized transactions list, I removed the icons I don't use from the tool bar if you find you use them you can re add them. It would have been nice if that fancy new desktop had programmable buttons, just shut it down in the desktop preferences, unless you have no idea what you are doing and need instructions, the desktop icons open another set of menus which opens another set of menus until you finally get to where you need to go, it is the long way around, but it looks good.

Hope this is helpful.

Great program thats hard to improve on except for the support
I'd like to say first off that the tech support for QuickBooks Pro is poor unless you get an American on the phone. I guess for a program that costs less than $200 you can't expect unlimited free tech support from US reps but it would be nice if you could get one on the phone once in a while or perhaps pay a little extra to speak to Americans only. We decided to pay the extra for QB Enterprise, not because we really needed it but because of the Tech support plans. It's amazing how good the Tech support is when your willing to shell out a couple thousand $$ and then agree to a $750 a year renewal fee. Still though, it's much cheaper than talking to my accountant and the Enterprise technical support is generally outstanding. They will go out of their way to make sure you have everything you could ever need. You still will sometimes get a goof ball if you call at odd hours and very occasionally when you call during normal hours in but for the most part everyone you speak to is located in the US.

The product itself had some problems back in 2006 when they released this new type of QuickBooks. We quickly because frustrated with hosting issues, slowness, having to install it on our server, errors logging into the file etc..

2008 however has been very good thus-far. It's not that big of an improvement although I do appreciate the fact that it integrates with Outlook. The new help system also seems to have a pretty big improvement. Some of the other complaints I've read seem mislead and/or petty...some of this is no doubt the poor technical support from India. For example, one person mentions that after 8 years they still can't import transactions. Sure you can! We've imported AR and AP transactions using import through iif. The tech support person we talked to sent us templates on how to get this done and while it's pretty clunky it gets the job done. Sometimes I can't get the "exact" report I want or I wish it did something a little better but the problem is that all businesses are different and it's impossible to have a program that will please everyone all the time.

The things QuickBooks does well FAR EXCEED what it doesn't do. It makes accounting incredibly easy for a business owner, reports are pretty darn flexible. If their not flexible enough for you, upgrade to the Enterprise Edition and you get a Read ODBC driver that allows you to Query the database using SQL and make all sort of fancy reports in Access and Crystal. The biggest strength to this program is it's ability to be a jack of all trades. In one of the reviews someone is complaining about having to use Excel with QuickBooks to get the report they want but that is such a small gripe. The fact is that QuickBooks has a feature that allows you to export to Excel and customize things to your liking if you don't like exactly how they've done it. That's a benefit not a downside! They have taken the time to integrate with other products so well which I think is one of this products biggest strengths.

The woman who has to rebuild her file repeatedly sounds like she has data damage in her file, something that has only happened to us once in 6 years and it was very minor. She also says she's getting a switch to message several hundred times? That's not normal. I've seen QuickBooks running on several hundred of my clients PCs without seeing that error. I can tell you from personal every day experience that the product runs fast if you take the time to set it up right, have decent computers (1-2gb of RAM is standard these days), and a decent server if your using a multi-user edition to hold the data file and take the "brunt" of the workload.

If you have an anti-virus program make sure to have it exclude the QuickBooks processes! We had an issue with our file giving strange errors when we would open it that were similar to the switch-to message. The file was also running unbearably slow for a couple weeks. I eventually started booting the computers in selective startup and was able to determine the Anti Virus was at fault. I excluded the QBW32.exe process and everything has worked great ever since.

The bottom line is that for users that already have 2006 or 2007, this is a small upgrade that's probably not worth it. I think most people like myself become spoiled over time from how easy this program really is to use and find ourselves frustrated when it doesn't do everything just perfect.

If your looking for an accounting package for the first time, this is the one to buy look no further. QuickBooks is supported by so many accountants that choosing another version of software in my opinion is a poor financial business move. Not only do you have to go out of your way to find an accountant that knows how to use Microsoft accounting or any of the other small Accounting packages but you may also have to pay a premium for their help because they are such a rarity.

This program is incredibly simple, offers just about everything you could ask for in reporting, 3rd party integration, emailing, creating sales and purchase transactions, taking care of your taxes, automatically sending your file to your accountant, I could go on for a while. Get it, it's the only accounting software I would recommend to anyone. If only they would offer their US support for less $ I would have given this 5 stars. 5 stars for the program, 1 star for Pro tech support, 5 stars for QuickBooks Enterprise tech support if you can afford it.

Don't upgrade until they fix problems.
I have been using Quickbooks Pro for over 10 years so I have found many good features but the loan manager for managing loans has a major flaw they can't seem to fix. The data files are stored in a separate file format & don't back up with a normal data back up. Then they don't transfer when you upgrade to a newer version. You can't access them because it moves all the other files to the newer version. I told them 2 years ago about this & they promised a fix soon. Didn't happen. Tech support told me to recreate the files manually, they were sorry.