QuickBooks Premier Edition 2008

QuickBooks Premier Contractor Edition: Offers easy tools designed for your general contractor, subcontractor and specialty trade clients. Contractor Edition offers standard accounting features, plus the ability to:

• Manage job costs
• Track change orders
• Job and Financial reports
• Manage billing rates by employee

Professional Services: Professional Services Edition includes project cost reports and other tools these types of businesses use most often. It also allows billing rates to be set by individual employee, client, or service, and even converts invoices to Microsoft Word letters.

Nonprofit: QuickBooks solutions such as Nonprofit Edition offer your religious organization, charity, and other similar clients, accounting and donation management tools tailored for nonprofits. Help them demonstrate financial accountability and monitor fundraising efforts with tools like:

• Attract and manage donors
• Track budgets by program with the Unified Chart of Accounts (UCOA)
• Keep the board informed with the Statement of Financial Position
• Generate 990 forms for grants and tax purposes

Retail: QuickBooks offers a range of solutions designed for your retail clients—both brick and mortar, and online. Solutions such as QuickBooks Point of Sale and Point of Sale Merchant Service can help your clients manage inventory, sales, and customers by:

• Automatically updating inventory
• Showing retailers what's selling and what's not
• Processing credit and debit card transactions
• Offering hardware and software that works together
• Tracking customer data to help expand customer marketing

Manufacturing & Wholesale Manufacturing: Manufacturing and Wholesale Edition is one of several QuickBooks solutions designed for manufacturers who:

• Manage inventory, including raw materials, and finished goods
• Create customized reports to show sales and profit by product.
• Track customer orders
• Send emails directly from QuickBooks using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express
• Identify unbilled time and expenses in one screen; invoice clients with one click
• Get frequently entered business automatically classified
• Access data and everyday tasks faster from the simple Home Page
• One keystroke Outlook synchronization
• Download bank and credit card transactions
• Efficiently Manage Customers, Vendors, and Employees
• Quickly capture billable hours online and from your Outlook Calendar
• Stay on top of your payroll with tools such as easy scheduled payroll groups and a to-do list for tax payment due dates
• See dates for payroll, taxes, and other liabilities at a glance in the Payroll Center, now with a new review, confirm, and submit process that provides full confirmation that payroll has been rescheduled.
• Instantly view any customer's balance, transaction history, and contact info in the Customer Center
• View your balance with any vendor; see a list of POs, bills, and payments in the Vendor Center
• View all paychecks and contact information for any employee instantly with the Employee Center
• Flexibility to Work the Way You Want
• Allow your accountant to review data and make changes while you work
• Multi-parcel shipping and added thermal printing support makes it easier to process FedEx and UPS shipments and create shipping documents from within QuickBooks
• Advanced features track costs for assembled products and inventory
• Create professional-looking forms with advanced customization tools
• Data backup wizard makes it easier to store company data
• Increase productivity with multiple-user functionality (with purchase of additional licenses)
• Plan for the future by creating sales and expense forecasts and a business plan
• Start Fast and Get Help When You Need It
• Coaching tips help you learn how to use QuickBooks with confidence
• Excel data import templates help you easily import your customer, vendor, and product information
• Find answers to your questions quickly
• Free QuickBooks Support included for 30 days following registration for questions submitted online