Monthly Archives: May 2010

QuickBooks Competitors Roundup!

Looking to upgrade your accounting system? QuickBooks, Peachtree, and Sage offer great accounting software products designed for small businesses that can help your company be more productive, save time, and grow your profits. Get 20% Off QuickBooks Financial Software when you buy through AccountingSoftwareDeals.com. We have deals on products from Peachtree, Netsuite, Sage, and Freshbooks, on their way and coverall major accounting brands that are prevalent in the US.

  • QuickBooks Pro: America’s #1 Financial Accounting Software
  • QuickBooks Premier: The top-of-the-line gold standard in financial accounting, QuickBooks Premier is the best choice for large and growing businesses.

Looking for the Intuit QuickBooks Special Offer Code?  To qualify for the 20% offers you don’t need an Intuit QuickBooks Special Offer Code. You just need to click through and you will be taken direct to the Intuit QuickBooks website or try Amazon.com QuickBooks discounts where your savings will be applied in the checkout shopping cart. Some discount codes will arrive in email or snail mail from time to time directly from Intuit, but to qualify for the savings you don’t need to do anything different.

Top Features of QuickBooks 2010

Easily print checks, pay bills & track expenses
Quickly print checks, pay bills, and track expenses. Aggregate all your checks to be paid and print them in one since batch print job. QuickBooks will keep track of each check so you know where your money is going. You’re also able to enter bills from vendors.

Track sales taxes & customer payments
Get rid of piles of paperwork to simplify your accounting. Easily enter customer payments.

Manage payroll & payroll taxes with direct deposit
Intuit Payroll Services will save you time by eliminating steps and giving you the tools to get your payroll done right.

Create professional-looking invoices and forms
Create a great brand and look for your business across all your invoices, statements, and other forms.

E-mail estimates, invoices, reports, and more
E-mail directly from QuickBooks using standard Microsoft programs like Outlook.

Organize and back-up documents by attaching them to your QuickBooks records
Document Management will let you save time by finding key documents when you need them

QuickBooks 2007 Discontinuation – Upgrade to QuickBooks 2010 ASAP!

Are you getting this message?  QuickBooks 2007 Discontinuation – Upgrade to QuickBooks 2010 Now! It’s that time of the year again–it’s QuickBooks sunset or service discontinuation time.  If you use payroll or any other service in conjuntion with your QuickBooks software, you’ll need to upgrade to QuickBooks 2010, the latest version.  This will ensure that your QuickBooks keeps working with great services like payroll and payments processing.  It’s part of the annual cycle that keep you on the latest and most secure version of QuickBooks–annoying but it’s like death and taxes–it just happens and there’s nothing you can do.

What do you do to keep your QuickBooks Running?

  1. Don’t Panic.  You have until May 31, 2010 to switch over.  Take a deep breath.
  2. See whether you are using QuickBooks Pro or QuickBooks Premier.
  3. Use one of our special offer links to get the discount and save 20% off your entire purchase plus get free shipping.
  4. You will need to get it via download because the cutoff date for QuickBooks service discontinuation is too close to wait for the product to be shipped.


Accounting Software Comparison

Not sure which accounting solution is right for your business?  There are a ton of solutions out there to choose from, some ranging from $1,000 per year to as little as $9.95 per month.  Here is a comparison of some of the latest accounting software packages out there, one new one on the list this year is QuickBooks Online Plus and FreshBooks.  QuickBooks 2011 will be arriving in the fall, so stay tuned for an updated review.

Peachtree ($349.99)

Peachtree is decent accounting software made by Sage, but isn’t well known by accountants, so it really won’t help you get the job done. If you need tax advice from an accountant or outsource parts of your business like payroll processing or accounts receivable to a bookkeeper, you’ll need QuickBooks Pro or QuickBooks Premier 2010.  Update: QuickBooks 2011 should be available online with the 20% discount in October.

Quickbooks Pro 2010  ($159 with the Discount)

QuickBooks Pro 2010 is the gold standard in small and medium-sized business accounting.  You can’t go wrong with QuickBooks for two reasons 1) Any accountant or bookkeeper will know how to help you if you get into trouble 2) It is by far the lowest price point for accounting software.  The QuickBooks Pro 2010 retail price is $179, but with the QuickBooks Pro discount you can pick it up direct from Intuit for only $159. Click Here to Active the Discount Code. If you’re looking for a directory of accounting software, click here for the Accounting Software Directory, a free directory of accounting software.

FreshBooks (Free to $19 per month)

The free version of FreshBooks won’t get you much.  You are very limited in the number of invoices you can send out and number of customers you can add to your account.  Overall, FreshBooks is good for sending invoices if you are a very small business or freelances, but it doesn’t deliver on the online accounting feature set that QuickBooks Premier or QuickBooks Online have.

QuickBooks Online Plus (free trial available, $34.95 per month)

Intuit QuickBooks Online is a great accounting package for small and medium sized service businesses.  In the last month QuickBooks Online inventory rolled out in QuickBooks Online Plus, so it’s really an all around bookkeeping solutino.  QuickBooks Online also has mobile accounting for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android if you’re a smartphone user.



QuickBooks Online in USA Today

USA Today has a great review of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that many small and medium sized businesses can leverage to conserve capital and lower IT costs.  The article highlights successes that companies like Salesforce.com and Google has had with their online productivity apps.  Rather than running software on you desktop computer, you can take advantage of the full scale and ubiquity of the internate and access you software on the web.  The article highlights QuickBooks Online, the web accounting software, as one of the leading accounting web apps.

Most small-business owners don’t realize this yet, but a mother lode of technology that can free precious cash and manpower is available to them as in no other time in history.
Small firms typically buy basic clerical and accounting software in shrink-wrap boxes and run them on a company computer. The owner, or a harried employee, invariably gets pressed into service as resident tech expert.

But today, they can tap into a swelling portfolio of business applications residing in far-off computer servers. These programs come down from the Internet cloud, sent by a growing army of software companies eager to deliver powerful tools to Web browsers in laptops, netbooks and smartphones. Users pay as they use.

So-called software-as-a-service, or SaaS, has long been available to big companies. Now that computing power has become dirt cheap and Internet usage ubiquitous, software developers are racing to put cutting-edge business apps into the hands of small firms in ways that could give a lift to the economic recovery.

Great article and really speaks to the benefits of online accounting and productivity apps!  Let us know if you find any more reviews or user testimonials.

Web Worker Daily Reviews QuickBooks Online

Would you do your accounting in the cloud? That’s exactly what Nancy Nally from WebWorkerDaily asked when she reviewed QuickBooks Online. The answer is pretty simple when you see the benefits of QuickBooks Online accounting software.

Price: Quickbooks 2010 costs $300 (street price), while Quickbooks Online Plus is $35/month. Even if you upgrade your desktop software every year, you’ll pay more to be online.

That’s true but you get a lot more for your dollar with QuickBooks Online, plus there is a Free Trial so you can see for yourself.

Accountant access: Providing access for my accountant is what prompted my switch to Quickbooks Online. With desktop Quickbooks, we’d have had to set up port access through our router’s firewall, and she’d have only had access when I had Parallels booted. If my laptop was away from home, she wouldn’t have had access at all. With Quickbooks Online, I simply authorized her, and she has access 24/7.
I totally agree with this point.  Using the Accountant’s Copy file for QuickBooks Pro/Premier was time consuming and had a bunch of errors if you weren’t careful.  QuickBooks Online lets your accountant log in without and Accountant’s Copy issues or extra hassles.
Bottom Line: There’s a price to pay in cost and features for the convenience and data security of using Quickbooks Online, but I find it well worth paying.
Some things that Nancy Nally doesn’t mention are mobile access you can do accounting on your iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android powered device with QuickBooks Online.

QuickBooks 2011 Download: Our Deals Roundup

Update: QuickBooks Pro 2011 and QuickBooks Premier 2011 is available.  Use the “Buy Now” discount link below to get the 20% off and free shipping discount on QuickBooks 2011.

You can get the discount for Intuit’s accounting software in a ton of places on the web, and we highly recommend comparison shopping to find the best discount. A lot of time buying from Intuit is a bad idea because they charge the highest prices when you buy it for a download. The good news is you’ll be able download QuickBooks directly from Amazon soon.

New versions of QuickBooks are generally released in the autumn of the year before the release. As an example, QuickBooks 2010 was released to the market in October 2009.  QuickBooks 2011 was released September 27, 2010.  We expect QuickBooks 2012 to be released in the Sept/Oct timeframe of 2011.

Quickbooks 2011 Deals: Upgrade from QuickBooks 2007 or QuickBooks 2008 to the newest version for the full feature version of the latest software.

Quickbooks Accountant 2011: QuickBooks Accountant 2011 is packed full of new features for accountants and has gotten rave reviews from bookkeepers and financial professionals.

Quickbooks 2011 Update: You can easily update or upgrade to the new version of QuickBooks with a CD or online.

Here are some of the top features that QuickBooks Expert Scott Gregory is looking for in the QuickBooks 2011 release:

  • A remit to address for vendors
  • Better tools to manage accounts receivable
  • A redesigned set of tools to customize reports
  • The end of forced phone-in registration to get a license code.
  • A fix on the problem that occurs with average cost on inventory items
  • A refresh of the customer center
  • The ability to purchase two additional licenses for QuickBooks Enterprise

You can find the complete list of QuickBooks 2011 requests on Scott Gregory’s Blog.  Scott is a QuickBooks accounting software expert and has been using QuickBooks for years.

We’ve been monitoring the web to find QuickBooks 2011 discounts and deals and they pop up.  Some places we’ve identified so far are QuickBooks-Discounts.com and even buying direct through QuickBooks.

Here are some excerpts from the Intuit press release on the features of QuickBooks 2011:

QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2011 build on prior versions by streamlining important accounting tasks, such as invoicing and collecting payments. The new Customer Snapshot and Customer and Vendor History features provide at-a-glance views of important customer and vendor details. Users can also take advantage of the power of QuickBooks Connect, a new service that lets small businesses access key QuickBooks data remotely via the Internet or a mobile device. Additionally, as with previous versions, QuickBooks 2011 helps small business owners stay organized by allowing them to have their business information in one place.

That sounds great, but to get a better pulse on what the accounting community thinks about QuickBooks 2011 Pro, QuickBooks 2011 Premier, and QuickBooks 2011 Mac, let’s take a look at what the reviews and software sites have to say:

MacWorld QuickBooks 2011 Review: “In QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac, it’s easier to enter that data into the application. The new version also gives users the ability to add mileage data to invoices if that’s something a user includes for billing.”

Tuaw Apple Blog: “QuickBooks 2011 is a very nice update indeed. QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac will be available for download or for phone and Web orders.”

Stay tuned for updates on QuickBooks 2012, the next version of QuickBooks.

QuickBooks Online PC Magazine Review

PC Magazine has a great review of QuickBooks Online. QuickBooks Online has gotten some great press in the last few months–here are some highlights from the QuickBooks Online PC Magazine Review.

QuickBooks Online is a surprisingly robust application that looks great and behaves well. It offers varying levels of functionality in every area that desktop products support, including some unusual features I wouldn’t have expected to see, like automatic invoicing and location tracking, as well as a good amount of customization.

PC Magazine’s also knocks upstart competitors who only offer half-baked solutions compared to the online accounting suite available in QuickBooks Online.

FreshBooks is a standalone invoicing site, and Outright takes a different approach—you get data into your online records primarily through its integration with other sites, like FreshBooks and oDesk. While each is an excellent tool in its own right, QuickBooks Online is much more comprehensive in its approach.

See for yourself and sign up for the free QuickBooks Online trial.

QBOE.com

QBOE.com

www.qboe.comQBOE com stands for QuickBooks Online Edition dot com (or the web address www.qboe.com), which is the web-based version of QuickBooks accounting software.  QBOE is similar to QuickBooks but has some feature differences.  QBOE is a web-based version of QuickBooks, not unlike QuickBooks Pro and QuickBooks Premier. Some of the chief benefits of QuickBooks Online (www.qboe.com) are that it is entirely web-based, meaning that you don’t have to access your home or office laptop to pull data, create invoices, or print reports. Also, QBOE provides a company Snapshot feature that lets you view the revenues, costs, and profitability of other companies in your industry, geography, or firm size. Usually there are a ton of discounts available for QuickBooks Online–currently they are running a 20% off discount offer if you buy the service.  Also, don’t forget to get the AccountingSoftwareDeals.com 20% discount.

QuickBooks Online versions include the following QBOE versions:

  • QuickBooks Online (QBOE) Simple Start: Easily create invoices, pay your bills, manage expenses, and keep track of your bottom line.
  • QuickBooks Online (QBOE) Plus with Payroll: QuickBooks Plus & Payroll. Manage your finances & pay employees from QuickBooks.

If you’re looking to get QBOE com, please use this navigation to get to QuickBooks Online Edition (QBOE), or www.qboe.com.

Where does QBOE take me?

The web address www.qboe.com will redirect via 301 to quickbooksonline.intuit.com or also www.quickbooksonline.com.