Choosing the Right QuickBooks Product
This book focuses on QuickBooks Pro, because its balance of features and price make it the most popular QuickBooks edition. But another edition might suit your needs better. Throughout this book, you'll find notes about features that QuickBooks Basic doesn't offer as well as features you can get only in one of the Premier or Enterprise editions. Here's an overview of what each edition does:
QuickBooks Basic is for the one-user shop. Only one person can work on a company file at a time. This most basic of QuickBooks editions provides typical bookkeeping tasks: invoicing customers, memorizing and sending recurring invoices, tracking payments and sales tax, paying bills, printing checks, tracking inventory and expenses, creating purchase orders, downloading transactions, reconciling accounts, and running reports.
QuickBooks Pro is the lowest-level edition that allows more than one user at a time in a company file. You can purchase licenses in single or five-user packs. QuickBooks Pro adds features such as job costing; creating estimates; saving and emailing reports and forms from the program; creating budgets automatically; projecting cash flow; tracking mileage; customizing forms; customizing prices with price levels; printing shipping labels for FedEx and UPS; and integrating with Word, Excel, and hundreds of other programs.
QuickBooks Premier is another multiuser edition. Its big claim to fame is handling inventory that is built out of other ...
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