QuickBooks Premier 2006 [Old Version]

by Intuit, Inc.

Product Features

• Pay bills, print checks, track expenses, create customized estimates, invoices, purchase orders and reports -- all from a single interface
• Manage customers, vendors and employees easily with access to contact information, balances and transaction histories
• Organize everything in one place, including sales, expenses, business loans, and more
• Share data with Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word and Outlook, to save time and reduce errors
• Built-in tutorials and onscreen helps you start working fast

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B8NFHQ
• Item model number: 296559
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,807 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #92 in Software > Business & Office > Business Accounting > Accounting

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

QuickBooks 2006 Premier includes everything in the Pro version of QuickBooks, plus tools for forecasting and planning your business future. It will let you organize and understand your finances and plan for growth and manage your complete financial picture. It will let you:

• 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.
• Plan for success
  Get a built-in business plan builder, Expert Analysis tool, forecasting and budgeting.
• Work flexibly with specialized tools
  Track inventory assemblies, create purchase orders, set multiple price levels, and access your data via the Web.
• 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.

Not sure which QuickBooks is right for you? Check this handy comparison chart.

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.

Plan for success

• Create a business plan easily
  Build a professional business plan quickly. Answer step-by-step questions, then QuickBooks fills in the numbers based on your actual QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel. You can even spellcheck your plan and save it as a PDF file.
• See how you compare with others in your industry
  Learn how your business is performing compared to similar-sized companies in your industry. The Expert Analysis tool includes current data for more than 130 industries. You'll get a printable report that offers customized recommendations from business experts.
• Create a forecast automatically
  Click a button to create a forecast of income and expenses for the coming year, based on your existing QuickBooks data. Increase or decrease line items by any percentage to see "what-if?" Later, compare your forecast to your actual results to see what worked and what didn't

Get all the tools you need in one package

• Track expenses automatically as you pay bills
  Record bills in QuickBooks, and get automatic reminders when they're due. Create checks to pay your outstanding bills in one step. QuickBooks 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.
• 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 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.

QuickBooks Edition Comparison Chart

Product Description

QuickBooks: Premier Edition 2006 gives you comprehensive financial management and planning tools to handle all your business needs. Tasks such as payroll, billing 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. But with QuickBooks Premier, you have more advanced tools as well. Automatically create business forecasts based on all your current trends. Create and customize a business plan. Use expert analysis tools to spot performance trends. For businesses with inventory, you can track, set reorder points, and build assemblies. QuickBooks Premier even lets you access the data you need remotely. With QuickBooks Premier, you’ll have the tools and business insights to stay on top of it all.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quickbooks 2006, November 12, 2005

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Cath "Business Consultant" (Redwood City CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Premier 2006 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I've been beta testing Quickbooks for many years and often will recommend an upgrade for my clients and friends....this version will be the first that I recommend that everyone upgrade to. The interface is more intuitive than ever, the program works quickly and best of all the new customer [and vendor] centers easily provide a snapshot view of any customer in an instant. Integration with Outlook is also seamless.

This is definitely worth the cost to upgrade, and if you are using other software you really want to check it out.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Attention Virtual PC / Mac Users, December 3, 2005

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Tony Dicostanzo "BookPal" (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Premier 2006 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

My first impression of this new release is positive - the new centers provide concise information in a snap shot manner that is very easy to use. As a Mac user I have been running QB Premier 2005 in Virtual PC environment for a year or so with no problems. The upgrade to 2006 is a bit more challenging. When you try to run the main "setup.exe" I received an immediate error message and the install program crashed. The "work-around" to this is to open the folder on the CD called "QBOOKS" and run the "setup.exe" program in the folder. For whatever reason that one works in Virtual PC while the other one does not. Intuit will not support Virtual PC questions so don't even waste your time on hold... good luck.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tool for Small Business., March 10, 2006

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Mark D. Maher "GGTECH" (Middle Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Premier 2006 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I believe it is important to say that I am a QuickBooks ProAdvisor. As a technical consultant to small businesses, I began supporting QuickBooks several years ago after I saw how it benefited my clients.

I began useing QuickBooks myself in 1999 for my business. This version is one of the best advances I have seen. The new home page shows the various work-flows in an easy to understand format, making it easy to get to the form I need with one click. I really like the new "Centers" for customers, vendors and employees. Most of the information I need when looking for history with a customer or vendor is available when I click on the customer or vendor name. With one more click I can easily see the original transaction. I used to have to go through several screens to get to the information I needed.

The industry customization in the Premier Edition is a great addition and well worth the additional investment. I have a client using the Contractor Edition. The Contractor Center provides a quick glance at how the business is doing. The Job Cost reporting is an excellent tool to help better manage the business by comparing actual to estimated costs. They have been able to improve their estimates based on the information QuickBooks makes available to them.

The key to having the information you need is to make sure you get it setup properly in the beginning. Spend some time reviewing the excellent on-line training and help before you setup your company files. If you don't like reading the instructions, another option would be to get the help of a local QuickBooks ProAdvisor for assistance.

I highly recommend it.