QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack 2008
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.
NOTE: Simple Start is for first–time QuickBooks users. It cannot import data from prior versions of QuickBooks, Quicken, or Peachtree.
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Key Features |
Simple Start 2008
$99.95
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$199.95 |
| Track sales, expenses, and sales taxes |
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| Professional–looking invoices and estimates |
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| Financial, sales, and tax reports | 14 | 100+ |
| Payroll (additional fees required)1 |
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| Inventory tracking and purchase orders |
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| Download credit card and bank transactions2 |
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| Automatically populate and print 1099/1096 tax forms3 |
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How Simple Start Plus Pack Can Help Your Business
Simple to learn and use. Get started quickly. Step–by–step tutorials show you how to create invoices, record expenses, and more. Plus, data you've tracked in Excel spreadsheets can be easily imported into Simple Start.4
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Valuable Tools to Help You Run Your Business. Simple Start Plus Pack combines the simplest way to track sales and expenses, with a bundle of essential business tools and services. You'll get Simple Start software plus the Learning Accounting Essentials training CD, a one-year/1GB subscription to QuickBooks Online Backup service5
, and 250 Standard or Voucher Checks.6
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Grows with your business. Simple Start is part of a family of small business products and services designed to help you do everything from process credit card transactions to track inventory. As your business grows and your needs change, QuickBooks grows with you.
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Track sales, expenses, and customers in one place. Track the money coming into your business, and who it comes from. Track the money going out, and where it goes. Simple Start keeps all the information in one place.
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Be ready at tax time. Use Simple Start for your bookkeeping, and you'll be tracking tax-related income and expenses automatically. At tax time, the Income Tax Summary Report puts all of your tax information at your fingertips.
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Know exactly where your business stands. Profit & Loss, Sales, Expenses, and more: One click gives you essential reports using the simple transactions you've already entered.
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Look more professional and save time. Create professional–looking estimates and invoices. You can customize them with a few keystrokes. Get totals automatically without writing formulas or doing math.
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We're here to help! Simple Start is easy–to–use, but if you have questions, e–mail tech support is free for the first 30 days for
questions submitted online.7
Also, find tips and tricks in the in-product help and tutorials, and free online user forums.
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Simple to Get Started. Simple to Use.
Answer three easy questions, and you're up and running.
It's incredibly simple
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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.
Simple Start Features
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Import data from Microsoft Excel4
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
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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:
- Insert the CD into your CD drive.
- Answer three easy questions to customize Simple Start for your needs.
- Start working.
No accounting knowledge needed!
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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
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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.
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 Service5
- 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 Checks6
- 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
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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.8
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.
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
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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
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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
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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.9
QuickBooks Payroll is a subscription–based service that works right inside QuickBooks, so there's no double–entry, and nothing new to learn.
Learn more about our variety of timesaving, easy–to–use
Payroll Solutions.
Accept credit cards in Simple Start10
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.
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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
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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 accountant 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
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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.
Click on each report's name in the list below to see an example. Or, download the comprehensive list of reports.11
Profit & Loss Standard (PDF)
How much money did my company make or lose over a specific period of time?
See All Simple Start Reports (PDF, 135k, 2pp)
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
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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
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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
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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 days7
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 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.
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Two–minute tutorials and help screens
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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
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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.)
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Paid Support
Get access to technical support experts who can answer your QuickBooks questions. (Fees apply.)
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