QuickBooks Premier Professional Services Edition 2005

by Intuit, Inc.

Product Features

• Financial software for professional services providers
• Track time and bill clients more efficiently with flexible options
• Invoice and proposal templates; payment settings and reminders
• Set billing rates by employee, as well as by client or service
• 16 reports; 5 new project costing reports; new Reports Navigator

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00062AK4S
• Item model number: 284220
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 25, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,933 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Designed specifically for professional services providers, QuickBooks: Premier Professional Services Edition 2005 is customized for the way you do business.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Track time and bill clients more efficiently with flexible options that support the way you do business.
• Get more insight into your business with 16 reports designed specifically for professional services firms--including five new reports.
• Look more professional with invoice and proposal templates designed specifically for professional services firms.
• Access information and tools faster from the Professional Services Navigator or Menu.
• Get help when you need it with help content specifically written for professional services firms.

What's New for 2005:

• Set billing rates by employee, as well as by client or service.
• Get a better handle on project costs with five new project costing reports.
• Send invoice data to Microsoft Word templates and get professional, personalized invoices.
• Find and generate reports more easily with the new Reports Navigator.
• Save time applying received payments with new payment settings and reminders.

Product Description

QuickBooks 2005 gives you easier access to relevant reports and onscreen help. You'll find more flexible payment and payroll processing. You'll get tools to help you use QuickBooks more effectively and the ability to easily merge customer information into Microsoft Word documents and envelopes. Now you can print shipping documents for UPS packages, as well as FedEx shipments and you'll get access to a whole library of business resources, information and forms. QuickBooks 2005 can save you time, help you manage your business more effectively, and help you make a plan to achieve better results in the future. Plus, the Expert Analysis tool has been updated with recent data so that you'll know where your business stands against the competition in any of 130 industries. The Business Plan tool now includes enhanced spellcheck, export of financial projections to Excel, and the ability to turn your plan into a PDF file for e-mailing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Quickbooks should be Re-named Quick-Scams, October 30, 2005

By 

SN.Alper (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Premier Professional Services Edition 2005 (CD-ROM)

The company is a huge scam operation. Here's how they did it to me: they charge you $400 for their Professional Sevices version. What they don't tell you on the packaging, is that if you have any problem whatsover with their product, even if it is a glitch in their system, they will charge you $50 just to call them and ask for it. So the first time I called to find out why their invoice feature was broken, printing a total line on pages where you hadn't reached the total yet, and printing the first pages "Invoice" title repeatedly on subsequent pages where it looked weird, they would not even talk to me unless I paid $50 or bought a more expensive 90-day plan from them. And not only do they hide it from their packaging, if you go on the website they claim that they will talk to you if it is a problem with their product, but when you call you find out that was a lie because they refuse to talk unless you pony up. Shame on them. Buy a different product. If others have similar experiences, let's share them and maybe we can do something.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, September 24, 2005

By 

Lyn Diamond "PR Chick" (Sonoma County, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Premier Professional Services Edition 2005 (CD-ROM)

I've had this product for a few weeks and I use it everyday. The main reason I bought it was for the timing feature. In my business, I need to bill by time, and my Quickbooks 2002 always crashed when I used the timing feature. I was hesitant to try Quickbooks again, but with a money-back guarantee from the company decided to give this version a try.

I find this product to be great. It hasn't crashed on me once, and is much easier to move around from the single timing feature, to weekly time sheets, to preparing invoices. I haven't attempted to do an invoice in Word yet. I just export to Excel, but that process is painless in this program.

I highly recommend it!