QuickBooks Online Simple Start

If you're just starting a business, or considering accounting software for the first time, this may be for you. Offers the simplest way to manage sales, expenses, and customers. Simple Start provides just the essentials, without added tools that may be unnecessary for your current business needs. It organizes all your financial information in one place, simplifies your accounting tasks, and presents the right information exactly in the way you need it to make sense of your business activity.  And, with this web-based edition, you're afforded easy access from work, home, or on the road. Your data is accessible 24/7 when you need it. QuickBooks Online Simple Start makes managing your small business finances quick and easy.

QuickBooks Online Essentials and Plus

Functionality similar to QuickBooks Pro and Premier desktop versions with a web-based approach, enabling easy access from work, home, or on the road and easy multi-user capability (up to 5 users + your accountant). You access and manage your data through a secure, encrypted Internet connection.  Data safely resides on Intuit QuickBooks remote servers, accessible 24/7 when you need it.  Excellent expansion capabilities with the ever-growing integrative apps eco-system. If you desire financial system access capability anytime, anywhere, this may be the software option for you.

For businesses that are up and running, this desktop version offers the small business advanced, yet easy-to-use, tools that provide increased power and flexibility to manage business finances. Among other features, QuickBooks Pro provides full general ledger accounting, fundamental inventory control, and payroll functionality. You can quickly create invoices and essential reports, with the powerful form customizing tools; even send progress invoicing to customers. Track Accounts Payable, job costing, and inventory. Track time and vehicle mileage, and produce 1099 and 1096 forms. Have the capability to track multiple currencies, and use multiple price levels on sales forms (based on % of base price).

All the features of Pro, plus industry specific reports, advanced tools for inventory (i.e., build inventory assemblies and Bills of Materials) and purchase orders, and easily track time, expenses, and revenue by project. In addition, because it is designed for businesses desiring to manage and improve their longer-term performance, Premier offers business plan and sales/expense forecasting tools based on entered transactional data. You can quickly build a professional business plan by answering step-by-step questions. Click a button to create a forecast of incoming expenses for the coming year, and increase or decrease line items by percentage to adjust for future changes. Export to Excel for further analysis, or save as a PDF file. With QuickBooks Premier desktop edition, you can create 150+ industry specific reports for profitability, job/project costs, sales tax liabilities, and more. You can choose from a variety of industry specific versions to install: Contractors, Mfg & Wholesale, Professional Services, Non-Profit and Retail Editions.

Powerful, easy-to-use accounting and business management solutions for growing, mid-sized companies; and at thousands of dollars less than comparable systems. This desktop version includes all of the QuickBooks Premier features and industry-specific versions, plus: multiple user access (up to 30 simultaneous users), more tasks completion in multi-user mode, expanded custom fields usage, advanced tools, a U.S. based support package, automatic upgrades, and more. Enterprise supports unlimited list items (customers, vendors, inventory and other product/service) and you can work in two company files simultaneously. In addition, there is advanced security and control, with the ability to set customized user permissions to 115+ specifically targeted activities, lists and/or reports access.

For Manufacturing and Wholesale versions, add on an Advanced Inventory subscription that works right within Enterprise Solutions. All the software advantages of Enterprise Solutions plus: Track the value and quantity of inventory in multiple locations. Transfer inventory from one location to another. Flexibility to setup and track inventory across varying types areas within locations. Track and view your inventory and key inventory tasks in one place. Track serial numbers and lot numbers. Work in FIFO costing in addition to average costing. Use Bar code scanning to save time (works with any USB compliant bar coder).

QuickBooks Retail Solutions help retailers simplify the key tasks of running a store - from ringing up sales, to managing inventory, to selling on the web, and more. Software solutions in this category make it faster and easier to track your sales, inventory and customer information. There are three levels of the Intuit POS desktop product offering: Basic, Pro and Multi-Store. In addition, there is now an available i-Pad version (powered by Revel Systems). Powerful options that can be tailored to meet your specific business needs.