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QuickBooks Online Edition

QuickBooks Online Edition is web-based accounting software at a reasonable per month charge. Because your accounting data is online, you can work when and where you want and easily add support for additional users to accommodate growth. It’s available in 3 versions: Simple Start, Essentials, and Plus. Monthly rates start at $12.95 for Simple Start, $24.95 for Essentials, and $39.95 for Plus. For 2011, inventory tracking, purchase orders, time tracking, 1099 preparation, and budgeting have been added to the Plus version.

QuickBooks Pro 2011

QuickBooks Pro is Intuit’s step-up accounting system. It supports up to 3 users. It tracks customers, vendors, employees, and inventory items. It’s not available in industry-specific versions and it doesn’t support these features: sales/expense forecasts, sales orders, back orders, inventory assemblies, different billing rates for different employees, or price levels. If you need those features, buy Premier. It starts at $229.95 (before discount!).

QuickBooks Premier 2011

QuickBooks Premier offers 6 industry-specific versions in 1 product: Contractor, Manufacturing & Wholesale, Nonprofit, Retail, Professional Services, and Accountant. During installation, you can choose any of the industry-specific versions or stay with the General Business edition. It supports up to 5 users. It tracks customers, vendors, employees, and inventory items. It supports these features not in Pro: sales/expense forecasts, sales orders, back orders, inventory assemblies, different billing rates for different employees, or price levels. It starts at $399.95 (before discount!).

Premier 2011 – Industry Editions

QuickBooks Premier offers 6 industry-specific versions in 1 product: Contractor, Manufacturing & Wholesale, Nonprofit, Retail, Professional Services, and Accountant. During installation, you can choose any of the industry-specific versions or stay with the General Business edition. It supports up to 5 users. It tracks customers, vendors, employees, and inventory items. It supports these features not in Pro: sales/expense forecasts, sales orders, back orders, inventory assemblies, different billing rates for different employees, or price levels. Note that there’s no difference in the pricing between the General Business and the industry-specific versions of Premier. All start at $399.95 (before discount!).

Enterprise Solutions 11.0

Enterprise Solutions builds on the ease-of-use of QuickBooks by offering more power and control. It includes greater capacity (lists are optimized for 100,000 entries), increased maximum number of users (up to 30), and more flexible security. There are 5 industry-specific versions available (Contractor, Manufacturing & Wholesale, Nonprofit, Professional Services, and Retail). Enterprise Solutions is priced from $3,000.

Payroll

Intuit offers 2 online payroll products: Basic and Enhanced. Both are available for an annual fee. They support paying employees by printing payroll checks or making direct deposits. You can pay and file federal and state payroll taxes with E-Pay and E-File.

Point of Sale Solutions

Intuit’s Point-of-Sale hardware and software solutions include everything you need to run a retail business, from a single store to a chain of 20 stores.

Point of Sale 9.0 is available in 2 versions: Basic and Pro. POS Basic is for single stores and costs $999.95. POS Pro is for chains of up to 20 stores and costs at $1,499.95. Hardware/software bundles featuring key retail items (e. g., a receipt printer, a credit card reader, and a cash drawer) are available, as well as hardware items sold separately.

Learning Aids

Intuit offers a small selection of learning aids to enable users to get more out of QuickBooks software.

Quicken

Quicken is Intuit’s industry-leading personal finance program. There’s Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, and a Mac version.

Quicken Manager Products

Intuit offers several products to supplement the capabilities of Quicken: Home Inventory Manager, Medical Expense Manager, and Rental Property Manager.