QuickBooks Premier Editions 2007

Comprehensive tools for fast and easy financial management

Product Information

QuickBooks Premier Editions for 2007 lets you pick the premiere title of choice during installation.  

This product is an ALL-IN ONE product, i.e., the product contains Premier, Accountant, Contractor, Nonprofit, Retail Services, Professional Services, General Business, and Manufacturing & Wholesale on the same CD. The User has to select ONE at the installation.

You will have the ability to be guided through an interactive selection tool (wizard) with detailed feature descriptions to help you select the ONE product that is right for you.  Provided below is a brief description highlighting some of the features for each of the Premier Edition titles.

QuickBooks Premier Editions 2007 simplifies your everyday tasks and provides industry-specific and business planning tools designed to take your business to the next level.

• Monitor business performance
• Features designed for your industry
• Customized financial reports 

Product Overview

General Business

Simple Home Page

• Vendors and Expenses
  • Enter, track and pay bills
  • Track income taxes and pay sales taxes
  • Create purchase orders from estimates or sales orders
• Customers and payments
  • See all customer information on a single screen
  • Create sales orders from estimates
• Employee and payroll
  • See all employee information on a single screen Manage payroll, taxes and liabilities (subscription required)

Customer Center

• One central place
  • See transactions, contact information and notes
  • Quickly locate crucial business information
• Provide better customer service
  • Answer questions quicker than ever
  • Enter notes to track important details

Every day tasks made easy

• Company
  • Categorize income and expenses
  • Build inventory assemblies (finished goods and kits)
  • Set prices and determine discounts by customer or job
• Banking
  • Write and print checks
  • Download bank and credit card information
• Organize your data
  • Categorize your income and expenses quickly

Key data at your fingertips

• Click on a name from your customers list
• Contact information and notes are at your fingertips
• See who's paid and who owes

Accountant

QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition 2007 is the all-in-one bookkeeping, write-up, and financial reporting tool that helps accounting professionals work efficiently with multiple QuickBooks clients.

All New Accountant's Copy

• You work in the prior period set by the dividing date
• Client continues their work in the current period
• You can add, edit or delete the most commonly used transactions
• Client can automatically import your changes into their QuickBooks files

All-in-one bookkeeping, write-up and financial reporting

• Professional financial statements - unlimited customization with the Financial Statement Designer
• Working trial balance - Make adjusting entries, enter workpaper references
• Fixed asset manager - Full featured to manage assets and depreciation from acquisition to disposition
• Accounting controls - Prevent changes to prior periods and find errors with "Set Closing Date" and Audit Trail
• Complete write-up work - Rapid data entry and ability to enter recurring, reversing and adjusting journal entries

Contractor

QuickBooks Premier Contractor Edition 2007 offers standard accounting tools, plus time-saving features to help you manage job costs, track change orders, gain insight into job profit and view job status - You'll always know where you stand. Recommended for builders, general contractors, remodelers, subcontractors, specialty trade contractors, and more.

Track profitability with job cost reports

• Reports instantly show job costs and profits
• Compare estimated costs vs. actual costs

Other features designed for contractors

• Manage job costs easily as you pay suppliers, subcontractors and employees
• Create estimates and track change orders
• Customized job cost reports show which jobs are profitable and which are not
• Compare actual costs to estimates
• New! Track expiration dates of your subcontractors' insurance

Manufacturing & Wholesale

QuickBooks Premier Manufacturing & Wholesale Edition 2007 has all the standard financial management features of QuickBooks: Pro, plus time-saving tools for managing inventory and costs, tracking customers orders, and monitoring business performance.

Manage inventory and costs within QuickBooks

• QuickBooks automatically adjusts inventory as you receive, build and ship products
• See a complete picture of your inventory - promised, available and on order
• Create Bills of Materials - instantly see the cost of assembled products

Create sales orders to track customer orders

• Customized reports show sales and profits by product
• Track backordered items on invoices and purchase orders
• Inventory reorder report shows items below their reorder points
• Create price levels by item of by customer

Nonprofit

QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit Edition 2007 gives you standard accounting features, plus easy tools for nonprofits to demonstrate financial accountability to your Board of Directors.

Create customized thank you letters and donation statements

• Choose a template
• Add your logo or mission statement
• Transfer donor information directly into Word  (refer to QuickBooks requirements)

Other features designed for nonprofits

• Track donors and contributions with the new Donor Contribution Summary report
• Create customized reports such as Statement of Financial Position for your Board
• Track budgets with the Unified Chart of Accounts (UCOA)

Professional Services

QuickBooks Professional Services Edition 2007 has all the standard accounting features of QuickBooks: Pro, plus easy time-savings tools to meet the unique needs of professional services firms.

Easy time tracking and invoicing - eliminate double data entry

• Enter billable time in QuickBooks or save even more time with online timesheets using Time Tracker
• Transfer timesheet information to an invoice with a click of a button
• Generate professional looking, customized invoices or invoice letters as well as envelopes to send to your clients

Other features designed for professional services

• Flexible billing options allow you to set rates by employee, client or service
• Customized financial reports who project profitability
• Online timesheets save you hours of typing

Retail

QuickBooks Premier Retail Edition 2007 is specifically designed for retailers - with reports and tools to help you manage your business finances more effectively.

Stay on top of your business with retail reports - they provide greater day-to-day insight

• Easily view and print reports customized for retailers
• 10 reports to help you:
  • Track sales by type of payment and understand sales trends
  • Keep tabs on vendor purchases and returns 
  • Prioritize bills for payment
  • Calculate sales tax liability

Save time managing retail activities

• Sales Summary form helps you easily track daily sales 
• Reconcile end-of-day sales totals to payments received

Other features designed for retailers

• Practice QuickBooks with retail specific sample data
• Manage price levels with customized pricing options
• Works with QuickBooks Point of Sale

Minimum Requirements

• Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home (Not recommended), Windows Vista, Windows 2000 server, and Windows 2003 Server
• 500 MHZ Intel Pentium II (or equivalent)
• At least 256 MB of RAM for a single user and at least 512 MB of RAM for multiple, concurrent users
• For Vista users: 1.2GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) and 1GB RAM
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• 1 GB of disk space (additional space required for data files)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or better required (6.0 provided on CD. Requires an additional 70 MB)
• Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime 1.1 (provided on CD. Requires an additional 150 MB.)
• Requires 9 MB for Timer
• At least 256 color SVGA video
• Optimized for 1024x768. Support 800x600 with small fonts
• 2x CD-ROM
• All online features/services require Internet access with at least a 56 Kbps modem (DSL or Cable Modem Recommended)

Recommended Requirments

• At least 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium III recommended or equivalent computer
• 512 MB of RAM

Integration / Compatibility Requirements

• Microsoft Word and Excel integration requires Word and Excel 2000, 2002, or 2003
• Microsoft Outlook synchronization requires QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook tool, available for free at quickbooks.com, and Outlook 2000, 2002 or 2003. Synchronization with Outlook is also possible with QuickBooks Customer Manager (sold separately).
• Compatible with QuickBooks Customer Manager v2.0 & QuickBooks Client manager v2.0
• Compatible with QuickBooks Point-of-Sale 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
• Business Planner functionality requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later
• QuickBooks has been tested on the following anti-virus software (Some setting adjustments might be necessary):
  • Microsoft Windows XP SP2 built-in firewall S
  • Symantec Norton® AntiVirus, Internet Security Suite
  • McAfee Anti-Virus
  • Trend PC-Cillin
  • Zone Labs ZoneAlarm

Multiplayer Requirments

Multi-User mode is optimized for Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 client-server networks, and Windows 2000/ XP Pro/ Vista.