Amazon.com: QuickBooks Premier Contractor 2006: Software

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This is the all-in-one financial management for contractors, including advanced job-costing tools. Recommended for builders, general contractors, remodelers, subcontractors, specialty trade contractors and more.

Boost your profits
Get easy-to-use job costing tools, reports, tutorials, and a profitability snapshot of any open job.
Finish basic tasks faster
Get one-click access to checkwriting, time tracking and payroll from the new simplified Home Page.
Organize all your job details in one place
Including customer and vendor information, expenses, estimates, change orders, invoices, purchase orders, bills, payments, and more.
Works seamlessly with Microsoft Office applications
Integration with Excel, Word and Outlook Contacts, to save time, look professional and reduce errors.
Run your contracting business more effectively and efficiently
More easily use flexible hourly billing rates, contractor-specific reports, and the Expert Analysis tool to benchmark your current financial performance against the past and against others in your industry.
Start fast and get help when you need it
Get onscreen help focused on contractor-specific issues, built-in tutorials, and FREE QuickBooks callback support for 30 days following registration.

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Boost your profits

Track your job costs automatically and effortlessly as you pay bills, employees and subcontractors.
With 18 Job Costing reports—including 6 advanced reports—Contractor Edition lets you see how you're doing at every phase of the job. Reports include:
- Cost-to-Complete (by Job)
- Job Costs (by Vendor—Subtotaled by Job)
- Job Costs (by Job—Subtotaled by Vendor)
- Job Costs Detail
- Profit & Loss (by Job)
- Expenses Not Assigned to Job
- Unpaid Bills by Job
Get an instant financial reading of your current jobs at a glance
No time to create and review reports? Check the Job Costing Center for an instant reading of how you're doing on your current jobs. See a summary of key information for your jobs, all in a single window. You'll see job costs-to-date and profits or losses. You'll also see expenses not assigned to any job, so you can quickly identify any billable expenses and get paid every penny you've earned. Links instantly take you to job costing reports and tutorials.

Learn Job Costing Easily Step-by-Step
With Contractor Edition's easy-to-use job costing tools you can increase your profitability by comparing your actual spending on each job to your original bid, to help you estimate more accurately and stay on-budget. A built-in tutorial explains what Job Cost tracking can do for your business, show you what information to enter where, and how to use Job Costing reports.

Finish basic tasks faster

Work faster from the simplified Homepage
The new, customizable Home page gives you direct access to the features you use every day, and a clear picture of how they all fit together. No more searching through menus — you're never more than two clicks from your data. You'll also see current bank and credit card account balances, so you know right where you stand without opening any other screens or even your check register.
Save time on payday for you and your employees
Save time and make payday painless for your employees with Direct Deposit, a service option available with QuickBooks Payroll. With QuickBooks Payroll Plans any employee can have their pay deposited directly into their bank account(s). QuickBooks offers a variety of timesaving payroll plans, including Enhanced Payroll Plus which automatically calculates your worker's compensation premiums (additional fees apply).
Pay bills, print checks and track expenses faster
Track your business expenses automatically. Record bills as they arrive and QuickBooks alerts you when they're due. Click a button to turn a bill entry into a check. Print checks one-at-a-time or in batches.
Track employee time and expenses
Track employee hours and reimbursable expenses. Enter hours by day or week. QuickBooks sends totals directly to paychecks and job-costing reports to help you bid more accurately.
Get ready for taxes or your accountant instantly
QuickBooks tracks your income, expenses, sales tax and payroll while you record transactions, so you're ready for taxes anytime. Let your accountant work directly in a copy of your QuickBooks file. Or generate any needed reports and email them as PDF files.

Organize all your job details in one place

Prevent end-of-job disputes over changes requested by customers
Contractor Edition makes it easy to document the costs—and the request—and get approvals in writing.
- Make a change to an estimate—QuickBooks asks if you want to create a change order.
- Customize the description, add a signature box, then print or email the change order and submit to your client for approval.
- Track any number of change orders per job. Generate an invoice from the estimate, and every change order appears automatically.
Send invoices to Microsoft Word templates, and track them in QuickBooks
Get the best of both worlds: the professional look and content of custom-created invoices in Microsoft Word, with the automatic calculation, tracking and reporting of QuickBooks.
- Choose from dozens of pre-designed Word templates, including many designed specifically for contractors. Customize the template with Word's powerful formatting options. Create an invoice in QuickBooks—job-related expenses and change orders are included automatically, and QuickBooks does the math.
- With one click, send the invoice to a Word template. Include details or just the total. Create envelopes in Word just as easily.
See transactions for any customer, vendor or employee instantly
Find information about any account easily, without digging through files or running reports. Click a button from anywhere in QuickBooks to find the New Customer, Vendor or Employee Centers. Click any name on the list to see contact information, balance, terms, and a complete transaction history — all in a single window. Zoom in for the details of any transaction. Instantly create invoices and POs from estimates
Turn any estimate into an invoice or purchase order with one click
No need to retype customer or vendor information or line items, and you can edit text, quantities or pricing, as needed. Print the document for mailing, or turn it into a PDF and email it right from QuickBooks!
Email estimates, purchase orders and invoices as PDF files
Save turnaround time and mailing costs on estimates, invoices, and purchase orders. Click a button to turn any estimate, P.O., invoice or report into a PDF file and attach it to an email in your email application—all in one step. Enter an address, add a note, and send. Or save the PDF file without emailing it.

Works seamlessly 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.

Run your contracting business more effectively and efficiently

Get the information you need with 9 contractor-specific reports Staying on top of a contracting business can be a full-time job, but not if you use Contractor Edition. With hundreds of reports, 18 job-costing reports and 9 reports created specifically for contractors. Contractor edition lets you instantly see the status of your jobs, analyze your workers' time and much more.
Track and apply customer deposits automatically
Avoid the embarrassment of billing a customer for an invoice they've already paid. QuickBooks tracks deposits and automatically reminds you if a customer you're billing has a credit balance. Share data with other contractor applications
No need to retype names and figures into different applications
Contractor Edition automatically shares data with over 400+ popular applications, including those specifically for the contracting industry (sold separately). Visit the Intuit Solutions Marketplace to learn more.
Set hourly billing rates by worker, position, or skill level Underbid your competitors while assuring your company of a healthy profit. In addition to charging customers for materials or by the job, Contractor Edition lets you charge for time-and-materials billing at flexible hourly rates based on real variations in your costs. That means you don't have to underbid to win jobs or overbill to protect yourself. For example, you can create one set of hourly rates for individual employees and subcontractors; another set of rates for specific positions, such as foreman or owner; and another set for various skill levels, such as apprentice or journeyman. When generating estimates and invoices, you can link each item to the appropriate rate level and send hours from timesheets to invoices—QuickBooks automatically applies the right hourly or per-item rate.
See where you stand in your industry
Learn how well you're doing compared to other contractors in your field and what you can do to improve. The built-in Expert Analysis tool analyzes your QuickBooks data and compares it against performance statistics for businesses like yours. You'll get an easy-to-read report that explains the findings in everyday English, with customized recommendations from experts in your industry.

Start fast and get help when you need it

Get set up and running in as little as a half an hour
QuickBooks 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

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QuickBooks: Premier Contractor Edition 2006 helps you gain increased control over your contracting business, helps you make more money on your jobs and allows you to spend less time on bookkeeping and paperwork, so you can get back to doing important work at the job site. Advanced Job Costing tools allow you to see where you’re making money and where you’re not. Track and print change orders on estimates to eliminate surprises for you and your customers. Improved customer management features such as an improved ability to search and filter Customer Lists and more email options help to manage your customer interactions. Memorized reports such as Cost to Complete and Job Costs by Vendor and Job help you gain insights into your business. With flexible billing rates, you can assign different rates to different employees so you’ll always have an accurate assessment of your total job’s cost. Plus, the Customer and Vendor Centers lets you track your relationships and transactions. Contact information, outstanding and paid invoices, payment and future payments due are all available at a glance. And, a simplified “Home” puts all your important tasks in one place so you are never more than two clicks away from all your important business data.

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