Quickbooks 2008 Pro - Retail Boxed

Quickbooks 2008 Pro has all the features of Quickbooks Regular Plus...

• Over 125 customisable reports quickly see how much money you are making and how much every customer owes you
• Easily produce professional looking invoices for your customers
• Save time by automatically creating a budget based on your actual Quickbooks 2006 Pro data
• Easily export reports to excel, save as PDF's or email reports
• Also available with Small Business Payroll

Fast, Worry-Free set up
Quickbooks 2008 Pro has easy to use help features so you can find information faster. You can quickly learn everything you need to know through the new Resource Area. Plus, if you need more assistance you can find local Quickbooks 2008 Pro help.

Multi-User Ready
The Quickbooks 2008 Pro Multi-User mode lets up to 5 people work with your company file at the same time. They can be entering data or accessing reports simultaneously and the actions of one user are immediately available to them all, providing real-time information whenever it's needed. (Requires one license of QuickBooks Pro or Accountant per user.)

Multiple Price Levels
Quickbooks 2008 Pro allows you to set custom pricing for different customers and situations. Each time you create an invoice, sales receipt, sales order or credit memo it automatically pulls up the correct custom price. You can create varying price levels and use them directly on sales forms to adjust the price of an item

Quickbooks 2008 Pro Key Features:

• Resource Area
• Reports and Graphs
• Multiple Companies
• VAT Management (cash or accrual)
• Invoice Customers and Track Payments
• Track Cash, Credit, and Bank Accounts
• E-mail Statements and Reports
• E-mail Invoices, Credit Notes, Purchase Orders
• Microsoft ® Word TM , Excel TM and Outlook TM Integration
• Pay Bills and Track Expenses
• Track and Manage Stock
• Create a Budget
• Manage Small Business Payroll (subscription required)*
• Process Credit and Debit Card payments (monthly fees apply)
• Progress invoicing, Job Costing, Multiple Estimates
• Units of Measure - Buy, Sell, and Stock in Different Units
• Multi-Currency
• Multi-User ready (up to 5 users)**
• Cash Flow Projections / Loan Manager
• Password Protected Closing Data
• On-line Banking ***
• e-Payment Solutions BACS (subscription required)

* Annual subscription to QuickBooks Small Business Payroll Service applies.Applicable to mainland UK only.
** Requires additional license per user.
*** Currently e-enabled with Barclays Bank PLC

Get all the tools you need in one package:
With Quickbooks 2008 Pro you can pay bills, print checks, track expenses, manage payroll, create customised estimates, invoices, purchase orders and reports... track time, job costs, and more.

Track expenses automatically as you pay bills
Record bills in Quickbooks 2006 Pro and get automatic reminders when they're due. Create checks to pay your outstanding bills in one step. Quickbooks 2006 Pro tracks expenses and job costs automatically as you pay bills, saving you hours of manually collecting and calculating data for taxes and invoicing.

Create estimates and invoices in seconds
Duplicate and edit previous estimates to create new ones without rewriting all the details. When it's time to bill your customer, turn any estimate into an invoice with one click. Choose from dozens of pre-designed Quickbooks 2006 Pro templates to give your invoices a professional look. For businesses that don't use standard invoices to bill customers you can also send the key invoice data to a customized Microsoft Word document and add a personalized note.

Get exactly the reports you need
Quickbooks 2008 Pro comes with over 120 pre-designed, customizable business reports and a Report Navigator that makes it easy to choose the right one. Get the totals you need for tax forms instantly.

Create customized, professional-looking forms
Choose from over 100 ready-to-use, professionally designed forms, including invoices, estimates, and statements. Customize them with your company logo and or additional information like terms or the types of credit cards you accept.

Track employee time and job costs
Quickbooks 2008 Pro lets you easily track costs by job as you pay bills and track employee hours. You can transfer those figures to paychecks and invoices automatically, and run job costing reports to see where you're making or losing money on each of your jobs.

Transfer data to and from Microsoft Excel (available to buy separately)
Pull in information to Quickbooks 2006 Pro like large groups of customers, vendors and inventory items quickly from Microsoft Excel. Or use your company data from your Quickbooks 2006 Pro reports and export it to a new or existing Excel spreadsheets with all Excel formulas and formatting intact. Anytime you export updated data from QuickBooks; Excel maintains your existing formulas and updates the results automatically.

Merge QuickBooks data with Microsoft Word (available to buy separately)
Quickbooks 2008 Pro comes with a variety of standard customer and vendor letters that can be created in Microsoft Word and that merges in information from QuickBooks like customer name, address, and current balance. Select a group of customers or vendors in Quickbooks 2008 Pro, choose a template, and QuickBooks merges the data to create a letter in Word. With just a few more clicks you can create standard envelopes with all the right customer information just as easily. If your business doesn't send invoices, Quickbooks 2006 Pro can also create "Invoice Letters" that have the billing information for customers you need and you can any personal message to easily bill customers with look you want.

Manage customers, vendors, and employees easily
Quickbooks 2006 Pro gives you access to contact information, balances, and transactions � all in one simple screen in the Customer Centre, Vendor Centre, and Employee Centre.

See key information all in one simple screen
Quickbooks 2008 Pro allows you to spend less time hunting for specific transactions. 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. Quickly find any transaction to answer questions�no need to run custom reports.

Boost Efficiency and Manage your Finances Faster
The new, customizable Home Page gives you direct access to key features, plus a clear picture of how they all fit together. No searching through menus � you're never more than two clicks from starting a new task. You can also choose to see current balances for your accounts in Quickbooks 2008 Pro, so you know right where you stand without digging through multiple screens.



System Requirements for Intuit Quickbooks 2008 Pro

System Requirements Recommended System Configuration

QuickBooks Pro/Premier on XP

• At least 1.8GHz processor, 2.0GHz
• At least 256MB (512MB recommended) of RAM for a single user
• At least 512MB of RAM for multiple, concurrent users
• 1 GB of disk space (additional space required for data files)

QuickBooks Pro/Premier on Vista

• At least 2.0GHz processor
• At least 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1 GB of disk space (additional space required for data files)

Disk Space Requirements for Additional Software

• 50MB for Microsoft .NET 2.0 Runtime, provided on the QuickBooks CD
• Google Desktop Search (in-product search) space requirements are determined by the size of the company file and the nature of usage. It is not unusual for indices to be as large as 1GB

Additional Hardware and Software

• Operating Systems supported:
  - Windows XP (SP2 or later strongly recommended), all editions
  - Windows 2003 Server
  - Windows Vista, all editions
  - Windows Longhorn Server (database only, not client)
  
• 4x CD-ROM drive
• Optimized for 1024x768 screen resolution or higher, supports 800x600 using "Small fonts" setting in your Windows control panel display settings

Database Server Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows XP (SP2 or later strongly recommended), Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, or Windows Longhorn Server operating systems
• Linux is supported for Enterprise Solutions only (SUSE 10.2, fedora 6)

File Server Requirements

• Novell Netware server or Linux/Samba file servers can be used with advanced configuration; performance will be impacted on networks running less than 100Mbps