QuickBooks Pro 2006 5-Users

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Product Features

• Fast and easy financial management for up to five users at the same time.
• New Customer Center that puts all your important customer information in one simple screen.
• New Employee Center that shows all your employees and what you’re paying them in one simple screen.
• New Vendor Center that shows all your vendors and what you owe them in one simple screen.
•  New simplified Home page helps you get to your key activities in two clicks.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B8K7TU
• Item model number: 296547
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,814 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Manage accounting tasks, payroll and routine paperwork quickly and accurately. It's the leading choice for fast and easy financial management. QuckBooks 2006 Pro includes everything in the Simple Start version of QuickBooks, plus tools for payroll, custom forms and inventory. With QuickBooks Pro 2006, you can:

• Boost efficiency
  Get direct access to key tasks and information from the new simplified Home Page.
• Share data
  Synch with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word and Outlook, to save time and reduce errors.
• Manage customers, vendors, and employees easily
  Get access to contact information, balances and transactions — all in one simple screen in the Customer Center, Vendor Center, and Employee Center.
• Start fast and get help when you need it
  Get built-in tutorials and onscreen help. Start fast and get help when you need it, with built-in tutorials, onscreen help, and free QuickBooks callback support for 30 days following registration.
• Get all the tools you need in one package
  Pay bills, print checks, track expenses, manage payroll, create customized estimates, invoices, purchase orders and reports... track time, job costs, and more.
• Organize everything in one place:
  Including sales, expenses, business loans, and more.

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Boost efficiency

Manage your finances faster from the simplified Home page 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, so you know right where you stand without digging through multiple screens.

• Enter information once… use it everywhere
  Tired of retyping the same information on different forms? With Pro 2006, you won't have to do it again: Start typing a customer or vendor name — QuickBooks fills in the rest. Track job costs and hours — QuickBooks transfers them to invoices and paychecks. Create an estimate, then click a button to turn it into an invoice or purchase order.
• Calculate and recalculate totals instantly
  QuickBooks saves you time and errors by calculating all totals automatically, including sales tax, discounts and markups. No need to write formulas or do math. Make changes, and see the results instantly.
• Easily manage received payments and refunds
  QuickBooks makes it easier than ever to apply customer payments, including amounts that don't match your invoices. If a customer overpays you can choose to refund the difference or apply it to a future payment. If a customer underpays you can choose to keep track of what they still owe you or just write off the extra amount. Onscreen reminders help to ensure that overpayments, underpayments, discounts and credits are handled correctly. And now you can easily track refunds for credit card transactions.
• Enter data into familiar forms
  QuickBooks tracks and calculates your financial information automatically as you fill out checks, invoices and other familiar forms that look and work just like the ones you already use.
• Download bank and credit card transactions in as little as one step
  Don't have time to keep track of expenses? Let QuickBooks Pro do it for you. Download cleared checks and credit card transactions from your financial institutions, and enter them into your books with as little as one click. You'll have more detailed records, with a lot less time and effort.
• Email invoices, purchase orders and reports as PDF files
  Instantly send estimates, invoices, and purchase orders by emailing them as PDF files. Click a button to turn any estimate, purchase order, invoice or report into a PDF file and attach it to an email instead of waiting for the post office to deliver. Or save the PDF file as a snapshot copy of the report for future reference.
• Easily reconcile and "undo" a reconciliation
  Ever cleared a transaction in error while reconciling your register against your bank statement? Don't spend hours tracking down individual transactions—clear all the transactions in the last reconciliation in one click! You can also easily customize the layout of the reconcile screen. An improved reconcile discrepancy report shows you changes and deletions made to previously reconciled transactions.

Share data with Microsoft Office applications

One click synchronizes all changes to your contact lists in Outlook and QuickBooks

• Avoid redundant data entry with easy synchronization with Outlook
  Simply download the QuickBooks Contact Sync tool from our website and a "synchronize" icon will be added to your Outlook toolbar. Just click once on this icon whenever you want to sync customer, vendor or job information between QuickBooks and Outlook. No more re-entering contact or job information in multiple places. With the new Outlook sync tool, you can manage your data more easily and get in touch with your customers or vendors faster. Learn more about QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook.
• Transfer data to and from Microsoft Excel
  Pull in information to QuickBooks like large groups of customers, vendors and inventory items quickly from Microsoft Excel. Or use your company data from your QuickBooks 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
  QuickBooks 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, 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 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.
• Share data with more than 400 other business applications
  QuickBooks works with over 400 popular software applications, including industry-specific applications, in order to meet your specific business needs.
• Convert data from Peachtree
  If you currently run your business on Peachtree software you can easily convert your data to QuickBooks. In just a few steps you can start working in QuickBooks using your Peachtree information, including customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.

Manage customers, vendors, and employees easily

• Customer Center
  Find and follow-up on past-due accounts, and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any customer. Initiate new estimates, invoices, and other transactions, with customer information already in place.
• See key information all in one simple screen
  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.
• Vendor Center
  Select any vendor to see purchase orders, bills and payments. Check your account status to avoid paying twice, paying for unreceived merchandise, or incurring late charges. Initiate new payments or purchase orders with one click.
• Employee Center
  Try an interactive example of the Employee Center See contact information for any employee, and a complete list of checks paid. And if you need to makes changes to personnel or get in touch with an employee, you can find employee contact information right on this screen.

Start fast and get help when you need it

• Get set up and running in as little as a half an hour
  Pro 2006 makes getting started so quick and easy, you could be working in as little as half an hour. Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time. Import customers and vendors from Excel, or enter them on-the-fly as you pay bills and record sales. If you're already using QuickBooks, your company file and preferences will automatically transfer.
• Get fast answers without leaving QuickBooks
  You'll find fast answers to most questions in the in-product, onscreen help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.
• Learn QuickBooks quickly with built-in tutorials
  Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them — in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features alike to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.
• Enjoy FREE support for 30 days from registration
  Have a question about QuickBooks? Talk directly with a QuickBooks support expert at no charge for the first 30 days following registration. They're available to help with setup, upgrading, using QuickBooks features, or any other questions or issues. Simply go online to submit your question, and a support expert will call you back.

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Product Description
QuickBooks: Pro Edition 2006 is the leading choice of small businesses for fast and easy financial management. Track money going in and out of your business more accurately. Routine tasks like payroll, invoicing, tracking bills and check-writing can be done in minutes instead of hours. With the click of a button, you can see past-due invoices or overdue bills. Or instantly see your entire business relationship with any customer or vendor. If you ever want to get in touch with them, all the contact information you need is right at hand. Also at your fingertips are invaluable customized reports. These reports let you slice data any way you wish. You’ll see what’s really going on with your business in a way never before possible. Isolate expenses. Identify your largest customers. Track your areas of biggest growth. The possibilities are endless. And when you need to share your data, you can easily import and export from Microsoft Excel2 and a number of other programs. QuickBooks Pro helps you enhance your professional image as well. You can customize and print professional forms. Easily add graphics and personal messages. Seamlessly print letters and envelopes with Microsoft Word. QuickBooks gives you the time, resources and knowledge you need to grow your business like never before.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Defective Multiuser...should have stayed with QB2000, November 28, 2005

By	M. Day (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This program has a 60 return policy with Intuit - thank god! They say I should get my money back in about six weeks.

Problem: Version 2006 multi-user speeds things up by installing a database engine (as a windows service) on the machine you decide to keep the main QB data file. This is the "recommend" setup. The problem is that the database engine keeps crashing. You can restart the DB service by opening QB on that particular machine, but this is a temporary fix for error #99937. The tech at Intuit says that this is a known problem and they are working on it. The knowledgebase article is dated 11/10/05. How did this product ship in this condition!!! Highly unreliable until the patch is released. The last patch we downloaded did nothing to address the problem (11/23/05).

Buy at own risk!

Even without the database problems it's hard to justify the money for the extra features.

We are staying with clunky version 2000 - at least it works in multi-user mode.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No need to upgrade unless you use payroll or merchant svc., April 7, 2006

By	James L. Schmitz "Jim" (Linn, MO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I upgraded from QB Pro 2002 because I wanted to open a merchant account and be able to accept credit cards (sure hope I don't have to upgrade every year to keep merchant account).
I am running a Windows 2003 Server system and using XP-Pro on the work stations. I followed the upgrade instructions, to the letter, and had no problems what-so-ever. As long as you install QuickBooks on the server first and convert existing QB files before installing QuickBooks on any of the work stations you should have no problem.
I don't really care for the new opening menu but once I get used to it, it shouldn't matter. Every other screen is almost identical to my 2002 version. It does take a little longer to open (and close) QuickBooks, which is not a big problem, but I would recommend only using newer, faster computers.
My 2002 version really did everything I needed, accounting principals don't change. I would not recommend upgrading unless you "really" need one of the new features or need to keep up with payroll or merchant services offered by QB.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars USELESS - constantly crashes and locks up my PC!, April 7, 2006

By	Laura A. Holland "ferretocious" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

1 Star? It shouldn't get any!!!

I'm an accountant and we had to buy this worthless program because a clients data was in QB 2006. EVERY TIME I open the program a) it takes FOREVER to open, b) it crashes constantly - the program will lock up and then just disappear - SWEET!, c) when you want to log out and go home make sure you have about a half hour to spare. The program will, hang, hang, hang, hang then give you a "not responding" error that will take another half hour to clear.

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY on this absolutely useless product. Quickbooks [...]- now it's an it's alltime worst. Once I'm done retrieving the data this program will be uninstalled from my PC. [...]