Quickbooks Pro 2008

Save time, organize information, manage business finances with confidence



QuickBooks Pro 2008 provides standard accounting and business tools for organizing your business finances with ease. Quickly create invoices and reports, and save time completing routine tasks, including payroll. With QuickBooks Pro you get all the accounting tools you need in one package, and you can share data with Microsoft Office and other applications. Manage customers, vendors, and employees easily, and organize everything in one place. Start fast and get help when you need it with built-in tutorials, onscreen help, and free QuickBooks callback support for 30 days following registration.

From a simple home page, easy bill payment, and everyday tasks made easy to creating professional forms and automatically generating reports.  QuickBooks Pro 2008 also provides one central place to see transaction, contact information and notes to quickly locate crucial business information.  Provide better customer service by being able to answer questions quicker than ever and having the ability to enter notes to track important details.  

NEW! Step by step coaching for new users to help you learn QuickBooks faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The new QuickBooks Coach guides you step by step, so you can learn how to use QuickBooks features faster and explore QuickBooks as you enter your data.

NEW! Find Answers Fast
Robust new Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily as you work in QuickBooks, so you can get back to business. You'll find answers to most questions in QuickBooks in-product onscreen Help. Type a question, choose from a list of topics, or search by keyword.

NEW! Send estimates, invoices & reports directly from QuickBooks using MS Outlook or Outlook Express
Use your existing e-mail address to send invoices, statements, estimates, sales receipts, purchase orders, reports, and pay stubs from your QuickBooks to your customers, vendors, employees, and accountant.

NEW! Quickly capture billable hours online and from Outlook Calendar
Free 60-day trial! Time Tracker is the simplest way to track and record employee and contractor time in QuickBooks. Your employees can track their hours from anywhere, using a timesheet on the Web and, now by designating meetings, emails, and appointments in their Outlook calendar for billing! You can download an entire set of timesheets into QuickBooks with one click. Administrators can review and edit timesheets before submitting to ensure accuracy, as well as run custom reports on submitted time.

• See dates for payroll, taxes, and other liabilities at a glance in the Payroll Center , now with a new review, confirm, and submit process that provides full confirmation that payroll has been scheduled.
• Create professional-looking forms with advanced customization tools.
• Data back up wizard makes it easier to securely store company data.

• Get frequently entered business expenses automatically classified.
• Stay on top of your payroll with tools such as easy scheduled payroll groups, and a to do list for tax payment due dates.
• Easily download employee and contractor timesheets into QuickBooks with online timesheets from Time Tracker.
• See dates for payroll, taxes, and other liabilities at a glance in the Payroll Center, now with a new review, confirm, and submit process that provides full confirmation that payroll has been scheduled. (refer to fees, etc.)
• Easily create an accountant's copy of your data files.
• Free 30 day free QuickBooks callback support included upon registration
• EasyStep interview gets you up and running
• Easily print checks, pay bills and track expenses
• Quickly create estimates and invoices; e-mail as PDFs
• Track sales, sales taxes and customer payments
• Get organized for tax time with tax categories
• Accept credit card payments in QuickBooks (subject to application approval, additional fees apply)
• Download credit card and bank transactions (online services vary by financial institutions or other parties with terms, fees, etc.)
• Track bills and set due date reminders
• Automatically organize data in Customer, Vendor and Employee centers
• Track and automatically bill for employee time/job costs
• Manage payroll and payroll taxes (fees apply; subscription required)
• Offer Direct Deposit (fees apply, subscription required)
• Track inventory, set reorder points and create purchase orders
• Ship via FedEx and UPS and directly print labels (see terms regarding fees)
• Generate reports to see how you are doing (customizable)
• Create professional looking forms with tools to customize
• Import and export to/from Word, Excel files, Outlook contacts (refer to integrations requirements on box)

• Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• 500 MHZ Intel Pentium II (or equivalent)
• At least 256 MB of RAM for a single user and at least 512 MB of RAM for multiple, concurrent users
• For Vista users: 1.2GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) and 1GB RAM
• Window 2000, Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home (Not recommended), Windows Vista, Windows 2000 server, and Windows 2003 Server
• 1 GB of disk space (additional space required for data files)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or better required (6.0 provided on CD. Requires an additional 70 MB)
• Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime 1.1 (provided on CD. Requires an additional 150 MB.)
• Requires 9 MB for Timer
• At least 256 color SVGA video
• Optimized for 1024x768. Support 800x600 with small fonts
• 2x CD-ROM
• All online features/services require Internet access with at least a 56 Kbps modem (DSL or Cable Modem Recommended)

• At least 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium III recommended or equivalent computer
• 512 MB of RAM

Integration / Compatibility Requirements

• Word and Excel integration requires MS Word and Excel, 2000, 2002 or 2003
• Outlook synchronization requires QuickBooks Contact Sync for Outlook tool, available for free and Outlook 2000, 2002 or 2003. Synchronization with Outlook is also possible with QuickBooks Customer Manager (sold separately).
• ACT! synchronization requires Symantec Act 3.08, 4.02, or 2000
• Compatible with QuickBooks Customer Manager v1 and v2 & QuickBooks Client manager v1 and v2
• Compatible with QuickBooks Point-of-Sale v4.0
• Business Planner functionality requires Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or 6.0

• Multi-user mode is optimized for Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 client-server networks, and Windows 2000/XP peer-to-peer networks. Novell NetWare is supported but not recommended.