QB 2008 Comparison Chart
| QuickBooks | QuickBooks Simple Start 2008 | QuickBooks Pro 2008 | QuickBooks Premier 2008 | |||
| Multiple User Access (with purchase of additional copies)1 | Up to 5 users1 | Up to 5 users1 | ||||
| Multiple Companies |  |
 |
 |
|||
| Multi-currency | Discontinued | Discontinued | ||||
| 30 Day Money Back Guarantee |  |
 |
 |
|||
| Runs on Vista | |
|
|
|||
| Easily Get Started | ||||||
| Free QuickBooks Support Included | 12 Months 2 | 12 Months 2 | 12 Months 2 | |||
| Easy Step® start-up interview to get you up & running right away | |
Improved | Improved | |||
| Chart of Accounts customised for your industry | Improved | Improved | ||||
| Home Page: Workflow based process maps | |
Improved | Improved | |||
| Improved usability | |
|
|
|||
| Organise and Complete Everyday Tasks | ||||||
| Easily print cheques, record bills & track expenses | |
|
|
|||
| Create Estimates & Invoices; Email as PDFs | New | |
|
|||
| Create Sales Receipts and Credit Notes | |
|
|
|||
| Create professional-looking forms with tools to customise | New | Improved | Improved | |||
| Export invoices to Word3 | New | New | ||||
| Track sales & customer payments | |
|
|
|||
| Track bills and set due-date reminders | |
|
||||
| Customer and Supplier Centres: contact and transaction history in one place | New | New | ||||
| Progress Invoicing and Job Costing | |
|
||||
| Google Adwords and Desktop | |
|
|
|||
| Efficiently Manage Employees | ||||||
| Track time/job costs & automatically bill for them | |
|
||||
| Manage Products and Services | ||||||
| Track Stock, set reorder points & create Purchase Orders | |
|
||||
| Customisable columns for Lists | New | New | New | |||
| Create delivery notes and shipping labels | |
|
||||
| Multiple Delivery Addresses | New | New | New | |||
| Create sales orders & track back orders | |
|||||
| Generate Sales Orders from Estimates | |
|||||
| Generate Purchase Orders from Estimates | |
|||||
| Generate Purchase Orders from Sales orders | |
|||||
| Easily set prices and determine discounts by customer or job | |
|||||
| Build and Track Inventory Assemblies to Finished Goods | |
|||||
| Units of Measure - buy, sell stock in different units | Improved | |||||
| Store Manufacturers Part Numbers on Items | New | New | ||||
| Manage Your Business | ||||||
| Google Desktop search | New | New | New | |||
| Track Bank and Credit Card Accounts | |
|
|
|||
| VAT Management - Cash scheme | |
|
|
|||
| VAT Management - Accruals scheme | Improved | Improved | ||||
| Customisable reports and graphs | 14 Basic Reports | 100+ Reports | 135+ Reports | |||
| Report Centre | Improved | Improved | ||||
| Email Forms and Reports | Forms Only | |
|
|||
| Import & Export to and from Word, Excel files & Import Outlook contacts3 | Improved | Improved | ||||
| Set billing rates by employee, customer/client, position or service | |
|||||
| Track loans, Fixed Assets and Vehicle Mileage | |
|
||||
| Short Term Cash Flow Projections | |
|
||||
| Create a Budget | |
|
||||
| Create Business Plan & Forecasts | Improved | |||||
| Share data with more than other business applications5 | New | |
|
|||
| Protect Your Business | ||||||
| Data backup options | Improved | Improved | Improved | |||
| Control access to your data by setting up users and permissions | |
|
||||
| Accountant Specific Tools | ||||||
| Audit Trail | New | Improved | Improved | |||
| Password Protected Closing Date | |
|
||||
| Auto Reverse of Journal entries | |
|||||
| One Click Journal History | |
|||||
| Adjusted TB, Adjusting Journal Entries Report | |
|||||
| Post journals directly to Retained Earnings | New | |||||
| Retained Earnings QuickZoom | New | |||||
| Optimised for Multiple Users and Locations | ||||||
| Set permissions levels to control user access | |
|
||||
| Access your files from remote locations4(add'l fees may apply) | 1-year free | |||||
| Share Report Templates | |
|||||
1 - Requires the purchase of additional single-user licenses to become multiple-user capable (one user per license purchased). All users must be on the same-year version of QuickBooks to access the same company file. 2 - 12 Months unlimited telephonic and email support included. Valid from date of product reistration. Must be activated 90 days after date of purchase 3 - Requires Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007. Excel integration requires Excel 2000, 2002 2003 or 2007. Outlook synchronization requires QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook tool, available for free at www.quickbooks.com/contact_sync/, and Outlook 2000, 2002,2003 or 2007. For more information visit www.quickbooks.co.uk. Business software applications sold separately. 4 - Internet access required. Additional fees apply for WebEx remote access service. One single-user subscription (12 months of service) included at no charge, valid for customers who purchase and install QuickBooks Premier 2008 software before 31/12/2008. Includes one year free WebEx remote access. Remote Access subscription begins at the time of installation. 5 - QuickBooks Compatible Software available from http://marketplace.intuit.com.
|
||||||