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• Toggle Tax on Journals
• Available Credits Popup in Pay Supplier Bills
• Another "New" Customer Snapshot /li>
• Financial Statement Designer in QuickBooks Enterprise and "Hosted"

Main New features in 2011/12:

• MS Office 2010 compliant
• Bi-monthly reporting for GST
• NEW wildcard searching within Customer & Supplier Centres - Find just about anything
• More customisation on Company Snapshot
• New Customer Payment Snapshot - track every dollar coming in at a glance with customisable charts and tables, have a onestop access to all customer payment related tasks

QuickBooks 2010/11 - an other "kinda" consolidation release

What many IT support people like: support for 64 and 32 bit  and being Windows 7 compliant

Also new is what the designers called: the Company Snapshot

• View all your crucial business info - incl. bank account balances, customer and supplier accounts due and income and expense trends - all in one screen for a quick yet comprehensive view of your busineness  performance.

The clean-up utility from earlier versions (remember the Condense data option?) has been revamped and improved: Quickly and easily clean up data files so you can increase transaction processing speed.

You can now perform a bank reconciliation - even if your Accountant is working on your file (Accountants copy) and import all Accountant Copy changes your Accountant sends.

Other enhancements:

• Allowance for Multi Currency Overpayments
• No script errors when using help
• Emailing enhancements
• Rounding Difference - in printing forms fixed
• you can now edit purchase orders in multi currency
• work on speeding up various reports.
  

Finally, it is important to note that with the GST change in October of 2010, this is the version that will be patched for that. No earlier versions will, so it is wise to consider an upgrade if you intend to keep on using QuickBooks.

QuickBooks 2009/10 -  a consolidation release

Mainly containing improvements, some very significant though

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• Reports, including Tax Reports and 101 significantly optimised (running faster)
• Bank Reconciliation page now fixed
• Audit company file – Tax Exception Report now fixed
• Improved tax code linking on balance sheet accounts
• An option in the preferences to allow for editing the GST (amount) on bills and invoices

New features:

• Accountants Data Transfer Tool (ADT) integration,
• QB Google Marketing Tools
• You can now set a preference to show or hide the Account Balances on the Home Page,Company wide preference with the default set to ‘off’ ,
  Key Benefit: Allows your clients to control the access of confidential account balances and prevents balances being exposed to others unintentionally
• Customising the Home Page – Home Page color: Changing the background colour in preferences now also applies the selected colour scheme to the Home Page, User –based preference
  Key Benefits:
  - It allows users to quickly and easily identify multiple company files, especially making it easier for those working on many different files at the same time
  - Could potential reduce errors of working on a file you didn’t intend to
  - In multi-user environments staff have a visual prompt for their login which again assists in the accuracy of the audit trail

QuickBooks 2008/9 - a major overhaul of the old and trusted, brings a totally new server-client, SQL RDBS, engine which will result in faster access, greater number of transactions without slowdown, more customisability and more reports, as well as access to the huge repository of international QuickBooks Third-Party add-ons.

New Features for QBi 2008/9

1. New customisable central navigator (Home page)- most tasks can be accessed with only a couple of clicks
   1. The new Home page provides an overview of all your essential business tasks and how they fit together
   2. The company desktop can be customised by each user in relation to colur and content, toolbars and icons
   3. The display is linked to user security priviliges. Users will see only the options they are allowed to use.
   4. New Customer, Supplier and Report Centres have replaced all navigators in the earlier versions. These centres provide access to related tasks so you can complete entire workflows from a single location.
2. Many enhancements in the underlying code hugely improve stability, security and flexibility of the software
   1. On screen forms and lists can be customised that is columns can be added or taken out, choose your own!
   2. Columns can be moved and resized
   3. Adjustable sizing for drop-down displays.
3. The audit trail is now always on without slowing the program down at all.
4. Batch email statements and invoices (delivery method can be set either by customer default or transaction)
5. Edit form emails before sending
6. New Add new account wizard
7. New Clean Up Company Data wizard
8. New Date warnings preference for transactions
9. New and enhanced GST-Tax features and preferences
10. New Google Desktop tool with additional QuickBooks-only preferences and features
11. New hyper compressed Portable data file format as an additial format for transport/back-up
12. New Accountants Edition

Purchase or Upgrade to either the 2007/8 product or subscription and be in for a free upgrade to this new technology when it will be released some time in 2008

YES, there is a demo available, for only $6.- incl freight and GST; order here

New Features for version 2007/8

1. Payment services - allows you to process your clients credit card payments directly from QuickBooks - this is a paid subscription service
2. Bank Reconciliation - You must now enter the reconciliation date  instead of automatic default.
3. New Filter: Filter your customer statements for those who have or do not have email addresses.
4. 12 months (from registration) free QuickenCare technical telephone support
5. QuickBooks Plus - includes 12 months (online) Payroll, online Backup, BitDefender Anti-Malware and QuickenCare Support (for pricing see below)

Meanwhile to run v 2006/7 or older version from 2004 upwards in Windows Vista
follow the following instructions:

Windows Vista is designed to be a more secure operating system, so it will present you with security warnings you may not be used to. When you first install the program, and when you run the program, Vista will tell you “An unidentified program wants access to your computer.” If you’re installing, the file it mentions will be “setup.exe”; if you’re running the program, it will be “qbw32.exe”. You should allow these programs to run. If the error message “QuickBooks has encountered a problem and needs to close. We’re sorry for the inconvenience” appears when trying to run QuickBooks it is because you set up QuickBooks to run in the Program Files folder instead of the Documents folder. You can work around these errors messages in either of the following two ways:

1. * Run QuickBooks as an Administrator.
2. * Install QuickBooks in the Documents folder instead of the Program Files folder.

To run QuickBooks as an Administrator after installation:

1. Right-click the QuickBooks icon on your desktop.
2. Select Properties.
3. Select the Compatibility tab.
4. Click the box next to “Run this program as an administrator” to insert a checkmark.
5. Click OK.
6. Double-click the QuickBooks icon on your desktop.
7. Enter the Administrator password if prompted.

To install QuickBooks in the Documents folder:

1. Insert the QuickBooks Installation CD in your computer’s CD-ROM drive.
2. The installation Wizard prompts you to install QuickBooks.
3. Click Yes. Type in your installation key code, and click Next. Follow the on-screen instructions until you get to the QuickBooks Install Options screen.
4. Click Change New Directory on the QuickBooks Install Options screen.
5. Navigate to your Documents folder, and click OK.
6. Follow the on-screen instruction to complete the installation.

Haven't upgraded for a while? Here's what was added in previous versions:

Contact us if you need further information on this on e-mail

New Features in v2005/6

• Bank Statements Downloads
  Now all banks supported. Save time (and money) by downloading your bankstatement direct into QuickBooks
• Bill payments:
  Upload payments-to-your-suppliers straight to your bank account
• New Tax Code Exception report
  This report s extremely useful to ensure accuracy of data entry as it picks up any transaction that has not had a Tax Code entered in the Tax column. From the report you can drill down to the transaction and allocate the approppriate tax code.
• Industry Specific Editions in QuickBooks Premier
  What you may have seen on the international sites has now come to New Zealand: The Industry specific editions come with custom menus, specific form templates and reports as well as specific instructions on how to handle industry specific transactions, for Accountants, Contractors, Manufacturing and Wholesaling, Non-Profit, Professional Services, Property Management, and Retailers

• Help again improved!
• accept payment for multiple jobs with one cheque
• more flexible printing of statements
• provide multiple estimates on one job (Pro version)
• email estimates (Pro version), e-mail all other forms, (all versions)
• buy stock as a package ( Unit) and sell it as individual items (Other Unit) with the new unit of measurement. (Pro only)
• Sales orders / back order tracking (Pro only)
• Track component stock with new Assembly item
• View bank reconciliation reports from previous reconciliations
• More Form customisations (more pictures in your forms)
• Fixed Asset Tracker, (PRO and up) Lets you keep track of the assets purchased, used and sold in your business. Enter details about the cost, selling price, serial number, warranty and so forth directly within the company’s QuickBooks file.
• Vehicle Mileage Tracker (Pro and up)Enter vehicle mileage the same way that you enter time sheets – like time, you can even track mileage to customer: jobs. Use this mileage tracker to invoice customers for your mileage.
• New Links between Sales Order, Estimates and Purchase Orders (Pro and up)From a sales order you can create a purchase order or invoice and from an estimate you can create a sales order or purchase order.
• Save as PDF For every form that you deliver to customers and for every report that you create you can now instantly create a PDF document.
• New Excel Import Now you can import items, accounts, customers and suppliers directly from Excel. QuickBooks allows you to create a mapping template between an Excel spreadsheet and QuickBooks to easily import data. Saving the mapping and use it on multiple customers
• Multiple Currency Accounting (Pro and up) If you purchase or sell goods and services overseas, you can use the new multi currency feature to create sales receipts, invoices, adjustment notes and sales orders in foreign currencies; plus enter and pay bills from foreign suppliers.

IMPROVED FEATURES

Enhanced Price Levels

Create additional price levels for all the items you sell. In QuickBooks 2003 you can have a price level based on a percentage above or below your item price. In QuickBooks 2004, you can now set individual price levels for each item separately. These price levels are easily attached to the customer or can be easily accessed from the invoice screen.

Enhanced Email Integration

Email integration is enhanced this year with the addition of the ability to email statements and to easily customer the email templates for each form that you deliver electronically.

Reconciliation Enhancements

The reconciliation screen now allows you to customise the columns that display and to show only those uncleared transactions that are dated on or before the reconciliation date. There is also the ability to view prior reconciliations in a PDF format and then to easily locate discrepancies from what was reconciled. To assist in repairing reconciliations we have added the ability to reverse the last reconciliation.

Improved Excel Export of Reports

Additional options let you choose the worksheet and location of your data. Great for exporting trial balances from multiple companies to consolidate or to integrate the fixed asset list into your depreciation schedules.

OTHER ENHANCEMENTS BASED ON CUSTOMER INPUT

• Easier and more reliable cheque alignment

• Better protection against data corruption

• Label Printing – exclude jobs/inactive customers

• Shipping Labels – print shipping labels directly from the invoice screen

• Icon Bar – Add print forms to the icon bar

• Customer & Supplier Address Fields – Cut / Copy / Paste whole address fields

• Print customer balances – customer balances can now be printed on invoices.

Features introduced with v2002

GST 101 report, at last a report that matches the IRD's GST form line by line.

20 different price levels, you have the ability to set-up 20 different price levels in the new Price Levels List. Users can create names for the different price levels and assign default levels to specific customers so that the appropriate prices automatically fill in on invoices and cash sales. The wholesale price option in v7.5 has been replaced by this feature

Email invoices, Estimates and Purchase Orders, Now you can communicate quicker and easier directly from your QuickBooks program, with just a click of a button, with your customers and suppliers.

Credit Payment Allocation, you can apply specific credits to specific invoices from the Receive Payments window and specific credits to specific bills from Pay Bills, which will ensure that the payment history is always accurate.

Seamless Integration with MS Excel & Word (PRO version only), be able to create letters directly merging your customers, suppliers or employee details with MS Word, or generate reports in Excel at the touch of a button, including the formulas. This enables you to take full advantage of the features of Excel and do your own analysis without having to re key all the data.

Share Address Info from ACT! 2000 and MS Outlook with QuickBooks, be able to synchronise address information between QuickBooks and those Information managers, enabling you to utilise both to the max.

Inbuilt business analysis and decision making tools, more tools even apart and on top of more flexible reports

Multi-user capabilities

• Allow up to five people to work with company data at the same time
• Need more than 5 users, inquire about QuickBooks Enterprise
• Add users through a convenient User Setup Wizard
• Track who is doing what in the company data file by using the enhanced multi-user Audit Trail report

Save time and money

• Get more help with QuickBooks
• Get small business industry information, tools, and advice
• Find a professional advisor in your area

Customising your company information

• Customise preferences for your company and individual user
• Restrict access to sensitive information by using dramatically enhanced passwords

Working faster

• Enter calendar dates quickly with a pop-up date calendar
• Enter next cheque number in the Pay Bills window
• Sort your registers in five different ways
• Benefit from 32-bit optimised performance
• Right-mouse click in many areas of QuickBooks to quickly get to relevant tasks

Easier to work with your Accountant

Creating reports

• Retain report orientation
• See unbilled (to customer) costs by job

• Windows 98 SE , ME, Win 2000 or Windows XP/Vista Business
• Intel P3/500Mhz 512Mb RAM
• Hard disk drive with 800Mb free space
• CD-ROM
• 256 Colour VGA or SVGA Video capable of 800-680 pixels resolution
• Any printer supported by the above Operating Systems
• Internet Explorer 6 or higher for accessing Internet services

* Prices subject to change without notice