Software Comparison
 SimpleStart
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| Money Back Guarantee | 60 days | 60 days | 60 days |
| Runs on Windows 7 | |
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| Easily Get Started | |||
| Free QuickBooks Support Included | 1Years Free | 1Years Free | 1Years 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 Goods | |
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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 | 100 Basic Reports | 135 Basic Reports |
| Report Centre | |
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| 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 | |
| Create Summary Reports in Home and Foreign values | New | New | |
| Support for over 140 currencies | New | New | |
| Exchange rate history calendar | New | New | |
| Set multiple foreign sales prices for items | New | New | |
| Default VAT Codes used to ensure correct VAT calc | New | New | |
| Credit memo exhange rates automatically change to match Invoice exchange rates | New | New | |
| Wizard to revalue foreign currency holidings, assets and liabilities | New | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 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 2008 are available. Requires the purchase of additional user licenses.
QuickBooks SimpleStart - for new and home based business
QuickBooks SimpleStart - for new and home based business
All the essential tools for new and home based businesses.
The simplest way to manage and track money going in and out of your business.
The simplest way to manage and track money going in and out of your business.
It’s easy to manage sales, expenses and customers when you do your company’s books with SimpleStart.
SimpleStart has been designed specifically to address small business needs and help them through their first start-up year which is the most critical year. SimpleStart takes less than 15 minutes to set up and with the easy interactive audio tutorials; you are taken through each step of setting up your company.
QuickBooks Pro - manage your business accounts simply and easily
QuickBooks Pro - manage your business accounts simply and easily
Fast and easy financial management for small businesses.
Manage your business accounts simply and easily.
Manage your business accounts simply and easily.
All the features of QuickBooks SimpleStart with advanced tools and customisation options to help boost efficiency and improve organisation.
QuickBooks Premier - fast and easy advanced accounting
QuickBooks Premier - fast and easy advanced accounting
The fastest, most complete way to manage small business finance.
Fast and easy advanced accounting.
Fast and easy advanced accounting.
The next step up from QuickBooks pro, this comprehensive tool meets more specialised needs and gives greater insight to your client's business.
Quick Payroll - manage all your weekly and monthly payroll needs
Quick Payroll - manage all your weekly and monthly payroll needs
Quickest and easiest way to manage all your weekly and monthly payroll needs.
Quick Payroll is designed to meet the fast growing needs of dynamic South African SMEs.
Quick Payroll is designed to meet the fast growing needs of dynamic South African SMEs.
It simply manages all aspects regarding payroll, including payroll calculations, leave registers, report writing, tax year-end, and more. Quick Payroll interfaces seamlessly with QuickBooks accounting software, which means your general ledger journals will automatically update.
Our solution automatically provides new tax law or statutory upgrades as they arise, keeping you on the payroll cutting edge. What is more, our Quick Payroll is so flexible; it can be used in any industry sector, injecting value into your company, employee and client relations across the board.
Quick Payroll Lite - manage all your weekly and monthly payroll needs
Quick Payroll Lite - manage all your weekly and monthly payroll needs
Quickest and easiest way to manage all your weekly and monthly payroll needs.
Quick Payroll Lite is designed to meet the fast growing needs of dynamic South African SMEs. It simply manages all aspects regarding payroll, including payroll calculations, leave registers, report writing, tax year-end, and more. Quick Payroll Lite interfaces seamlessly with QuickBooks accounting software, which means your general ledger journals will automatically update.
Our solution automatically provides new tax law or statutory upgrades as they arise, keeping you on the payroll cutting edge. What is more, our Quick Payroll Lite is so flexible; it can be used in any industry sector, injecting value into your company, employee and client relations across the board.
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