QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2010

QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2010 offers users such an interesting and efficient accounting software designed to help you manage your small business better. Simple Start makes estimating, invoicing, accepting payments, and keeping track of your finances quick and easy. Let Simple Start help you be ready at tax time, stay organized, and look more professional. Simple Start is for first-time QuickBooks users and can't import data from prior versions of QuickBooks Basic, Simple Start, Pro or Premier Editions, Quicken or Peachtree.

Major Features:

1. Save time when tracking your finances
   • Easily print checks, pay bills & track expenses
   • Track sales, sales taxes & customer payments
   • Track customer and vendor contacts
   • Manage payroll & payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit 1 (sold separately)
   • E-mail estimates, invoices, reports, and more
   • Create professional-looking invoices and forms
   • Organize and back-up documents by attaching them to your QuickBooks record
2. Get insights so you make better decisions
   • Allow multiple users to work in QuickBooks at the same time.
     
   • One-click business reports.
     
   • Import data from Excel, Quicken, Microsoft Office Accounting & prior QuickBooks versions.
     

Benefits:

• Be ready at tax time: As you complete everyday transactions, you'll be automatically tracking tax-related income and expenses, making tax time a snap.
• Stay organized: Track the money flowing in and out of your business. Know who it comes from and where it goes. Simple Start Free keeps sales, expense, and customer information in one place, so it's easy to find what you need when you need it.
• Look more professional: Simple Start Free is free software with easily-customized estimates and invoices. Get totals automatically, without writing formulas or doing math.
• Free software with no expiration date: With basic tools like invoicing and expense tracking to get organized, look more professional, and be ready for tax time.
• Use it to track up to 20 customers. When you're ready to upgrade, you can easily transfer the data you've already entered.
• 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 Free.1
• Grows with your business: Simple Start Free 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 can grow with you.
• Works with these Connected Services:
• • Document Management 2
  • Intuit Green Snapshot
  • Forms Customization
  • Free QuickBooks e-mail
  • QuickBooks Password Reset
  • Customer Manager Online, service sold separately
  • Payroll Services 3
  • Credit Card & Echeck Processing, service sold separately
  • File Transfer Tool
  • Sales Tax Reporter

Requirements:

• Recommended System Configuration
• • Windows XP (SP2), Vista or 7
  • 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor (2.4 GHz recommended)
  • 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) for a single user, 1 GB of RAM for multiple, concurrent users
  • 1 GB of available disk space (additional space required for data files)
  • 232 MB for Microsoft .NET 3.5 Runtime, provided on the QuickBooks CD
  • Monitor display resolution of 1024 X 768 at 16-bit color (Supports 800x600 with small fonts)
  • 4x speed CD-ROM drive
  • All online features/services require Internet access
  • Internet Explorer 6 or later must be installed on every computer running QuickBooks.
• Software Integration and Compatibility
• • Microsoft Word and Excel 2002, 2003 and 2007
  • Contact synchronization requires Microsoft Outlook, 2002, 2003, and 2007 (synch tool downloadable for free at: http://www.quickbooks.com/contact_sync
  • Compatible with QuickBooks Point of Sale version 5.0 and later
• Multi-User Networking Requirements
• • Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 2003 Server, and Windows 2008 Server
  • Linuz is supported for Enterprise Solutions only (Fedora 10)