QuickBooks Simple Start 2007 [OLDER VERSION]

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Product Features

• Lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently
• Helps you track sales and expenses as you go, simplifying your bookkeeping so you'll be ready at tax time
• Simple to learn and use--get up and running in 15 minutes
• Track sales, expenses, and customers in one convenient place
• When your business grows, existing data converts easily into higher-end editions of QuickBooks

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HBYS5K
• Item model number: 298876
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 25, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,045 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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Know how much money you're making. Be organized at tax time. QuickBooks Simple Start 2007 helps you track sales and expenses as you go, simplifying your bookkeeping. Simple Start isn't someone else's idea of how you'd like your business to run--it's your idea. We listened to hundreds of small business owners talk about their difficulties, desires, and peeves. You'll see what we mean, as soon as you try it. From the simple desktop to the familiar forms and helpful guidance, everything works just the way you want it to.

See what Simple Start can do for you (requires Flash).

Simple Start is so easy to use, you don't need a thick manual--just a Quick Start card that tells you how to get started in three easy steps. You'll be up and running in three easy steps:

1. Insert the CD into your CD drive
2. Answer three easy questions to customize Simple Start for your needs
3. Start working.

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Checks, invoices, and sales receipts
Simple Start's onscreen forms are a lot like the ones you use in your business every day. The moment you see them, you'll know how to use them. Simple Start lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently, but it doesn't overwhelm you with tools you won't use and shouldn't have to pay for.

Track sales, expenses, and customers in one place
Simple Start makes it easy to track the money coming in and the money going out of your business. Stop digging through piles of paper, switching applications, or searching through files to find the information you need. Simple Start organizes customers and vendors...your sales, estimates and invoices...your receipts, deposits, checks and expenses...all together, in one place.

With Simple Start you can easily create professional-looking estimates, invoices, and sales receipts just by entering information into simple forms. No more toggling back and forth between spreadsheets and a word processor to create bills and track them. To save you even more time, you can easily turn an estimate into an invoice, or an invoice into a payment.

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Tired of rustling through check registers and credit card statements to see where your money is going? Use Simple Start to write checks and track your expenses. Every time you pay a bill, Simple Start keeps your records up-to-date so you'll know where you stand.

Everything you need to accept credit transactions is in Simple Start. There's no need to buy additional hardware or software. Credit card sales are automatically processed as you enter them in Simple Start, so all your financial information is organized in one place.

Make tax time a snap when all of your information is organized. No last-minute panic!

Be ready at tax time
Simple Start keeps track of tax-related income and expenses year-round as you write checks and receive payments, so there's no need to scramble at tax time. The Income Tax Summary report helps you complete federal income-tax forms. Print it out and copy the totals to Schedule C and other tax forms. Or give the report to your accountant. Or download the numbers into TurboTax, the number-one-selling tax-preparation software (sold separately).

One more click creates your "Sales Tax Due," which summarizes the sales tax you owe to your city, state, or county tax boards. It's really that simple.

Know exactly where your business stands
Instantly create reports on profit and loss, sales, expenses, unpaid invoices, and more. You'll always know where your business stands with Simple Start's reports. See who owes you money and how much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Click on any item in the report to zoom in for the details--all the way down to individual transactions. Click on each report's name in the list below to see an example. Or, download the comprehensive list of reports.

QuickBooks grows with you
It's easy to move up from Simple Start to more advanced QuickBooks products. As your business grows, QuickBooks has a full line of small business financial software to meet your needs. It's easy to upgrade from either edition of Simple Start to QuickBooks: Pro, Premier, or Online Edition. All the information you enter into Simple Start can be automatically transferred to your new version of QuickBooks.

Number-one rated, number-one best-selling, year after year
QuickBooks products are the most widely used and recommended business accounting software packages. Running a business is challenging enough without wondering if you're choosing the right software. So we let you try QuickBooks at no risk.

Satisfaction guaranteed
Try QuickBooks for up to 60 days at no risk. If you're not 100 percent satisfied for any reason, return it with your dated receipt for a full refund of the purchase price. We guarantee you'll be satisfied or we'll give you your money back.

Product Description
With QuickBooks Simple Start Edition 2007, you have the simplest way to track sales and expenses. Simple Start does it automatically, as you create receipts or invoices and make deposits. It reports the totals instantly, so you can see exactly howyou're doing. Start using the simplest way to track sales and expenses! Know how much money you're making and be organized at tax time. Simple Start helps you track sales and expenses as you go, making your bookkeeping easy!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

78 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You can get Office Account Express 2007 for free, November 28, 2006

By	Gadgester "No Time, No Money" (Mother Earth) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

QuickBooks is, deservedly, the standard bearer of small business accounting software. The new Simple Start version is meant to make it very easy for the small business owner to get started in everyday accounting (probably more like bookkeeping to purists). However, I want to alert you to Microsoft's free Office Accounting Express 2007 which offers the same features but is truly free. You can download OAE at ideawins dot com, a Microsoft website. The OAE 2007 was recommended in the Nov. 15, 2006 New York Times.

Whichever software you choose, good luck with your business!

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good product, but bad information for this version, January 15, 2007

By	Bradford R. Eichhorn "certified PMP" (NE Ohio) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have used Quickbooks Basic for a number of years both in my church and for my business. I have kept QB 2004 Basic since the upgrades were not immediately necessary for me.

I chose to upgrade this year to keep current on maintenance, etc. so again I chose the most basic product offered - "Simple Start". I received it just fine and it installed perfectly.

However, it does not upgrade any previous QB files. As I investigated, Intuit says that it won't upgrade files from previous QB versions on their web site (albeit in small print) and on the product box itself, but that was not ever mentioned in the Amazon listing.

So then I had to upgrade to the next higher version - an additional $80. QB Pro also works very well; it's just a shame that Intuit insists on misleading customers by not providing full information through all marketing channels. The Intuit phone rep also tried to overcharge me $20 for the upgrade but quickly accepted the correct amount when I pointed out their error a second time.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What they don't tell you....., March 17, 2007

By	John P. Scott (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It seems that all previous Quickbook versions will not run on Windows Vista and I had upgraded my system. So, I bought Simple Start as the least expensive way to get a Quickbook product to run on Vista. Turns out Simple start runs fine on Vista BUT you cannot load a company file from earlier versions. Thus, Simple Start was simply useless to me. When I called Intuit customer service they said that for another $100 they'd give me a license number that would unlock that feature. By that time I was committed and had no choice. Talk about getting ripped off!!!