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QuickBooks Product Comparison
Here's our at-a-glance guide to the QuickBooks editions
It's easy to view, compare and choose the QuickBooks edition that has the features you need.
- All versions run on Windows 7, Vista and XP
- Guaranteed easy
- The only financial management software you'll need
We've made it easy to upgrade from one edition to another, so there's no bother if you realise you need extra features at a later date. You can also call us on 020 3742774 / 3744660 for advice.
QuickBooks Product Comparison
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Essential cash flow tools
| Free version available (allows you up to 20 customers) |  |
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| Guaranteed easy or your money back1 - fast set up and practical tutorials | |
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| Track sales, expenses and profit | |
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| Create professional quotes and invoices then batch email them as PDFs2 | |
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| Customise your financial, sales and tax reports - including profit and loss and balance sheets | 14 reports | Over 100 reports | Over 135 reports |
Bookkeeping tools to save you time
| Automatically calculate and eFile VAT returns directly to HMRC3 | Cash basis only | ||
| Ensure accuracy with VAT exception reports | |
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| Offer early payment discounts to improve your cash flow | |
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| Instantly understand how your business is performing with the Company Snapshot | |
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| Manage bills and credit terms from suppliers | |
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| Track stock, set reorder points and create purchase orders | |
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| Multi user access (with purchase of additional copies)4. Call us for more than five users. | Up to five users | Up to 30 users | |
| Organise customer and supplier data in one place | |
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| Handle multiple currencies automatically3 | |
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Financial management for business owners
| Easily send accountant's copy5 | |
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| Create budgets | |
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| Track time and highlight unbilled expenses before you invoice | Track time only | |
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| Create back orders for stock and set aside stock for invoicing | |
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| Buy and sell stock in different units | |
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| Forecast your cash flow | |
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| Set prices and discounts by customer, job, item or currency | |
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| Accountant-friendly features, including a client data review tool | |
- No Refunds are given in Kenya for the software packages purchased and paid for.
- Refer to integration / compatibility section in system requirements for detailed information.
- Internet access is required.
- First user is included; requires purchase of a licence for each additional user.
- SimpleStart has similar file transfer capabilities. Download the SimpleStart free file transfer tool here.
qb10 Detailed Comparison Chart
Features:
| Simple Start |
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| Multiple Companies |  |
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| Runs on Windows 7 | |
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| Easily Get Started | |||
| Free QuickBooks Support Included (Telephone & Email) | 1 Year Free | 1 Year Free | 1 Year Free |
| Easy Step® start-up interview to get you up & running right away | |
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| Chart of Accounts customised for your industry | |
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| Home Page: Workflow based process maps | |
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| Improved Help and Live Community | New | New | New |
| Faster Startup? | New | New | New |
| Improved Upgrade from QB2006 & earlier | New | New | New |
| Combined navigation and icon bar | New | New | New |
| QuickBooks Coach and Video Tutorials | New | New | New |
| Organise and Complete Everyday Tasks | |||
| Easily print cheques, record bills & track expenses | |
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| Create Estimates & Invoices & Sales Receipts & Credit Notes | |
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| Create professional-looking forms with tools to customise | |
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| Email forms as PDFs | Batch Email | Batch Email | Batch Email |
| Export invoices to Word5 | |
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| Track bills and set due-date reminders | |
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| Sort by data type on bank reconciliation window | New | |
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| Progress Invoicing and automatic recharge of expenses | |
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| Customer and Supplier Centres: contact and transaction history in one place | Improved Search | Improved Search | |
| Faster reporting | New | New | New |
| Duplicate sales and purchase transactions and list items | New | New | |
| Easy delete transactions with Right-Mouse Menu | New | New | |
| Print Receive Payment | New | New | |
| Manage Products and Services | |||
| Track Stock, set reorder points & create Purchase Orders | |
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| Customisable columns for Lists | |
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| Create delivery notes and shipping labels | |
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| Multiple Delivery Addresses | |
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| Units of Measure - buy, sell stock in different units | |
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| Store Manufacturers Part Numbers on Items | |
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| Create sales orders & track back orders | |
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| Generate Sales Orders from Estimates | |
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| Generate Purchase Orders from Estimates | |
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| Generate Purchase Orders from Sales orders | |
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| Easily set prices and determine discounts by customer or job | |
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| Build and Track Inventory Assemblies to Finished Goodsu | |
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| Manage Your Business | |||
| Google Desktop search | |
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| Track Bank and Credit Card Accounts | |
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| Share data with other business applications7 | Improved | Improved | Improved |
| Customisable reports and graphs | 14 Basic Reports | 14 Basic Reports | 14 Basic Reports |
| Report Centre | Improved | Improved | Improved |
| Email Reports and export to Excel | |
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| Import & Export to and from Word, Excel files & Import Outlook contacts5 | |
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| Set billing rates by employee, customer/client, position or service | |
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| Track loans, Fixed Assets and Vehicle Mileage | |
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| Short Term Cash Flow Projections | |
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| Create a Budget | |
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| Accountant can make changes whilst you still work (Accountants Copy) | Improved | Improved | |
| Easy file send to Accountant | New | New | |
| Company Snapshot shows key performance indicators for your business | New | New | |
| Trade in Mulitple Currencies | |||
| Invoice templates show home and foreign currency totals | |
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| Download currency exchange rates | New | New | New |
| Create Summary Reports in Home and Foreign values | New | New | New |
| Support for over 140 currencies | New | New | New |
| Exchange rate history calendar | New | New | New |
| Set multiple foreign sales prices for items | New | New | New |
| Default VAT Codes used to ensure correct VAT calc | New | New | New |
| Credit memo exhange rates automatically change to match Invoice exchange rates | New | New | New |
| Wizard to revalue foreign currency holidings, assets and liabilities | New | New | |
| VAT Management | |||
| Automatically saves VAT reports during filing as PDFs for easy audit protection | Improved (VAT 201, Detail, Exception,) | Improved (VAT 201, Detail, Exception,) | Improved (VAT 201, Detail, Exception,) |
| Report VAT liability on a Cash (payment) basis | Improved | Improved | Improved |
| Report VAT liability on a Accrual (invoice) basis | Improved | Improved | |
| Daily Sales Book Report (Show Net, VAT, Gross totals) | New | New | New |
| VAT 201 Return | New | New | New |
| Automatically adjusts VAT amounts for early payment discounts | New | New | |
| VAT Centre for easy access to common VAT tasks | New | New | |
| VAT Setup Wizard to change / add new VAT rates | New | New | |
| Accountant Specific Tools | |||
| Audit Trail | |
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| Password Protected Closing Date | |
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| Auto Reverse of Journal entries | |
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| One Click Journal History | |
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| Adjusted TB, Adjusting Journal Entries Report | |
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| Financial Statement designer | |
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| Share Report Templates | |
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| Retained Earnings QuickZoom | |
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| Post journals directly to Retained Earnings | |
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| Find & fix errors wizard | New | ||
| Toggle between different editions of QuickBooks | New | ||
| Optimised for Multiple Users and Locations | |||
| Sybase Database for better performance of large files | Improved | Improved | Improved |
| Set permissions levels to control user access | Improved VAT permissions | Improved VAT permissions | |
| Multiple User Access (with purchase of additional copies)1 | Up to 5 users | Up to 30 users | |
| Multiuser tools (backup and file locking) | New | New | |
| QuickBooks Instant Messenger | New | New | |
| Access your files from remote locations 6 (add'l fees may apply) | 1-year free | ||
*Multi-user versions for QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010 are available. Requires the purchase of additional user licenses.