1. REVIEWS - QuickBooks Premier Retail Edition
2009 [OLD VERSION]
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Product Feature
Track sales trends, keep tabs on vendor purchasesq
& returns, and analyze profitability with 10
retail-specific reports.
Track your sales results in one convenient placeq
with the Sales Summary form – enter sales for the
day, week, or any time period you choose.
Calculate sales tax liability automatically, andq
quickly identify over/under amounts.
Works alone or with QuickBooks Point of Sale toq
save time and help reduce errors.
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Product Description
QuickBooks Premier Retail Edition 2009 is specifically designed for retailers, to help you manage your
business's finances more effectively. Save time tracking sales results. Get greater day-to-day insight into your
business with retail-specific reports. And use the Home page and Industry tips to make QuickBooks faster and
easier for retailers. Read more
Product Description
Premier Industry Edition offers industry-specific features and financial planning software to take your business
to the next level. Monitor and gain insights into your business performance. Easily manage customers, vendor
and employee info. Business planning tools are tailored to help you grow your business.

2. Premier Industry Edition designed for retailers. Click to enlarge.
Designed For Retailers
Easily track sales results
Track sales results easily, accurately and flexibly with the Sales Summay Form. Enter total payments and
taxable/non taxable sales for the day, week or any time period you choose.
Reconcile end-of-day sales total and calculate sales tax liability automatically
QuickBooks Retail Edition calculates your sales tax liability automatically and makes it easy to spot cash drawer
over/under discrepancies for easi end-of-day sales reconciliation.
Analyze sales trends and profitability
The customized reports available in QuickBooks Retail Edition make it easy to analyze sales trends and track
profitability.
Use work orders to create invoices with one click
Turn any work order into a purchase order with just one click. No need to retype line items or even vendor
information Ñ Premier Retail Edition fills it in for you. Just edit quantities, if needed, and print. Or turn the PO
into a PDF, and e-mail it right from QuickBooks.
Reconcile end-of-day sales total and calculate sales tax liability automatically. Click to enlarge.

3. Analyze sales trends and profitability. Click to enlarge.
Use work orders to create invoices with one click. Click to enlarge.
Reduce data entry by downloading your bank & credit card transactions into QuickBooks. Click to enlarge.

4. Create purchase orders. Click to enlarge.
Generate reports with one click to see how your business is doing. Click to enlarge.
Manage payroll & payroll taxes; offer Direct Deposit (paid subscription required). Click to enlarge.
Track financial information in one place
Track sales & expenses
Get rid of the piles of paperwork. Easily enter customer payments & bills from vendors. Since QuickBooks
organizes everything in one place, you'll be able to access all past payments & bills for each customer and
vendor with just a few clicks.

5. Pay bills & print checks
Easily create and print checks. Aggregate all your checks to be paid and print them in one batch. QuickBooks
will keep track of each check so you can keep tabs on where your money is going.
Create & e-mail invoices
Use the data you already have in QuickBooks--such as customer contact info & products/services--to make
creating invoiced a snap. Choose from pre-designed QuickBooks templates or customize the layout yourself.
Organize data on customers, vendors, and employees all in one place
No more hunting through piles of files or trying to remember where you stashed that important paper.
QuickBooks organizes all your important small business information in one place, giving you easy access to a
complete picture of your business.
Import data from Excel, Quicken/ Quicken for Mac, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Get up and running fast by importing data from the tool you use to track your finances now. However little or
much data you currently have, you won't have to start over from scratch.
Save time & be more efficient
Reduce data entry by downloading your bank & credit card transactions into QuickBooks
Save time and avoid data entry errors. Instead of typing in your bank and credit card transactions, download
them securely from over 3000 participating financial institutions and easily import them into QuickBooks.
Enter bills and set due-date reminders
QuickBooks helps you ensure you pay your bills on time. Record bills as they come and set a reminder to make
sure you pay before the due date.
Export data into Excel
Export data from QuickBooks reports to Excel spreadsheets so that you can do more complex analysis or
graphing in Excel.
Track international sales & expenses with multiple currency support
QuickBooks supports all global currencies and does all the currency calculations for you. You can even
download exchange rates or do wire transfers from right in QuickBooks.
Manage products & inventory
Create purchase orders
You can create purchase orders in seconds by selecting from vendors and inventory already in your QuickBooks.
When you get the inventory in-house and record it in QuickBooks, QuickBooks will remember you have an open
purchase order and automatically match the PO to the inventory bill.
Track inventory
Easily track your inventory to avoid overbuying and backorders. Indicate re-order points for each inventory
good and turn on reminders to automatically let you know when its time to reorder.
Advanced Tools to track raw & finished goods
QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions help you address your more complex inventory & product
management needs including: tracking both raw materials & finished goods, adjusting inventory as you
creating bills of material (BOMs), and receiving inventory in one unit of measure and selling in another.
Monitor performance & gain insights
Generate reports with one click to see how your business is doing
Get pre-designed, customizable business reports to gain insights into your business. See all available reports in
one screen to easily choose the right one. Drill down with one click to see the detail behind the numbers.
Export any report to Excel--your QuickBooks formatting and formulas go with it. Access industry-specific reports
In QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions.

6. Create budgets to keep your business on track
Create a working budget automatically, based on your recent spending history. Adjust figures individually or
across line items. The spreadsheet-style format makes it easy to see the results of your changes. Refer back to
the budget to see how your actual spending compares to your original budget.
Get a real-time snapshot of your business, in one central location with the Company Snapshot
Stay on top of your business- see who owes you money, who you owe money to, important reminders, and
income/expense performance, all in one centralized location
Easily create a business plan; Forecast sales and expenses
Build a professional business plan quickly by answering step-by-step questions. QuickBooks fills in the numbers
based on your QuickBooks data. You can export the projections to Excel for further analysis or save it as a PDF
file. Click a button to create a forecast of income and expenses for the coming year, based on your existing
QuickBooks data. Increase or decrease line items by any percentage to adjust for future changes.
Manage Employees
Manage payroll & payroll taxes ; offer Direct Deposit (paid subscription required)
Intuit QuickBooks Payroll Services, QuickBooks Payroll for Mac powered by PayCycle, and Payroll for QuickBooks
Online save you time by eliminating steps and giving you the tools to get your payroll done right.
Automatically populate and print 1099s for independent contractors and federal filing
Create and print 1099 tax forms for you and your independent contractors.
Track time & billing
Track employee time and expenses
Track time by employee, service, and customer with timesheets in QuickBooks. When you select a client to bill,
QuickBooks automatically reminds you of unbilled time and expenses for that client.
Assign different billing rates for different types of employees
QuickBooks provides the flexibility of setting different billing rates by employee and service type. You can set a
fixed hourly rate for each employee or create custom hourly rates by service.
Allow employees to enter billable & non-billable time online, from anywhere with an internet
connection
Time tracking is automatically included with QuickBooks Online Plus. Time Tracker for QuickBooks Pro and
Premier, an optional subscription service, is the fastest, easiest way to collect and record billable and
non-billable hours into QuickBooks Pro and Premier for accurate invoicing, payroll and reporting purposes. No
more paperwork! Employees or contractors only need an internet connection to submit billable hours Download
timesheets right into QuickBooks with one click.

7. Track employee time and expenses. Click to enlarge.
Track customer information and related transactions. Click to enlarge.
Work simultaneously with other QuickBooks users on your company file. Click to enlarge.

8. Ask questions and get answers from experts and other small businesses like you, through Live Community,
right in QuickBooks. Click to enlarge.
Attract Customers & Manage Customer Relationships
Track customer information and related transactions
Keep customer contact and transaction information in QuicKBooks, so you can follow up on past-due accounts
and answer customer requests faster. See contact information and complete transaction history for any
customer.
Accept credit card payments right in QuickBooks
Process credit card approvals right in your QuickBooks software. If you use Intuit QuickBooks Merchant Services,
the data is automatically recorded in QuickBooks when you make a sale. And, it has no teaser rates, no hidden
fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts.
Easily create a professional website with customizable templates and drag-and-drop tools.
Save time with easy-to-use website creation tools including customizable templates, one-click publishing, and
website hosting. Everything is included to get your site live within minutes. Point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools.
Know how well your site is doing with website tracking and statistics.
Create & customize professional-looking invoices and other forms with advanced customization
tools
Create professional-looking forms by choosing from more than 100 expertly designed forms, including invoices
& sales receipts. You can also customize the templates by adding your company logo and tag line to present
your business uniquely to your customers.
Create sales orders & track back orders
QuickBooks helps you and your customer keep track of backordered items. Invoices, sales orders, and other
sales forms show which items have been invoiced, which items have been backordered, and the quantities
backordered.
Set price levels
QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions help you address your more complex pricing needs such as
customize prices for different groups of customers or jobs (i.e. corporate, loyal, high-volume, etc.) with more
price levels (up to 100).
Multiple Users & Multiple Locations
Work simultaneously with other QuickBooks users on your company file
Multiple-user functionality enables more than one person to work on a company file at the same time,
increasing collaboration and productivity. It ensures that all users are working on the most up-to-date data.
Set individual access levels for each user

9. Restrict access for other users to only certain parts of your QuickBooks data so that employees only see the
data they need to get their work done. For QuickBooks Pro and Premier, you can restrict access to 9 broad
categories. QuickBooks Online Plus and Enterprise Solutions restrict access on a more detailed level to specific
tasks and information. Customize each user's access level to view-only, create, modify, delete, print or any
combination thereof for Enterprise Solutions.
Real time remote multi-location access service included
Access your QuickBooks data remotely. Remote access is automatically built into your QuickBooks Online
subscription, so there's no need to send files back and forth. For QuickBooks Pro and Premier, get up to 1 year
free access to your QuickBooks data through WebEx. You can use Windows Terminal Services with Enterprise
Solutions to allow password-protected access by authorized users.
Support for your product & data
Ask questions and get answers from experts and other small businesses like you, through Live
Community, right in QuickBooks
Ask a Question: Ask QuickBooks users like you for help on anything from how to use QuickBooks to how to grow
your business. Chances are, someone else has had the same question you do. Discover Answers: See what
others are talking about. You will be able to see Questions & Answers relevant to what you're looking for, so
you can find your answer right away. Help Others: Give advice and share your own knowledge of QuickBooks.
Industry Specific Features
Create customizable reports designed for your industry
Access over 150 industry-specific reports In QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions such as:--Profitability
by Product for manufacturing and wholesale businesses--Job/ Project Costs for professional services firms &
contracting businesses--Donor Contribution Summary for nonprofit organizations--Sales Tax Liability for retail
businesses.
Easily Get Started
Import Data from Excel
Excel templates make it easy for you to import your existing customers, vendors, or product information into
QuickBooks. You can also assign each column in your existing Excel spreadsheet to a corresponding
QuickBooks column. Save these settings to use again the next time you want to pull in data. You can even
preview your data before you transfer it.
Import Data from Quicken, Peachtree, and Microsoft Office Accounting
Access the Quicken conversion tool in QuickBooks to convert your data from Quicken 1998 through 2007. If you
are currently running your business using Peachtree 2001-2008, Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006,
and Microsoft Office Accounting/Office Accounting Express, you can also easily convert your data into
QuickBooks 2009.
Get set up and running quickly. Click to enlarge.

10. Step by step coaching for new users. Click to enlarge.
Learn QuickBooks quickly with built-in tutorials. Click to enlarge.
Find answers fast. Click to enlarge.

11. Connect with other QuickBooks users and experts. Click to enlarge.
Get Set Up and Running Quickly
Answer a few basic questions, and get a customized setup you can change at any time.
Step-by-step Coaching for New Users to Help you Learn QuickBooks Faster
Get up to speed on QuickBooks easily. The 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.
Learn QuickBooks Quickly with Built-in Tutorials
Learn QuickBooks skills as you need them--in your own time, at your own pace. The built-in Learning Center
offers short tutorials on basic and advanced features to help you get the most out of QuickBooks.
Upgrade your QuickBooks Effortlessly
Easily transfer your existing data file into QuickBooks 2009. Your company file and preferences will transfer
automatically. In just a few steps, you can start working in QuickBooks using your information, including
customer lists, vendor lists, balances, and inventory lists.
Get Help When You Need It
Find Answers Fast
Help functionality allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily. 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.
Connect with Other QuickBooks Users and Experts to Get Help and Share Ideas
Connect with a vibrant community of QuickBooks users, QuickBooks experts, accountants, and Intuit
employees. Instant access to a wealth of questions and answers to assist with QuickBooks and small business
problems.
Reports
With QuickBooks reports, you'll always know where your business stands. See who owes you money and how
much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Learn where your business is profitable
and where you're losing money. You can also customize report templates to best meet your needs.
QuickBooks Premier Reports
Profit & Loss Standard
How much money did my company make or lose over a specific period of time?
Inventory Stock Status by Vendor
What is the detailed information about each inventory item, organized by vendor?
Purchases by Item Summary

12. For each item or service, how many has my company bought, and what is the total amount spent?
A/P Aging Detail
Which bills are due and overdue?
Profit & Loss Budget Performance
How do the actual income and expenses compare to what has been budgeted for the current month and year?
Statement of Cash Flows
What was the cash inflow (from profit and additional cash received) and cash outflow (cash spent) during a
specific period of time?
Income Tax Detail
What transactions make up each amount on my company's income tax forms?
Forecast Overview
What are my company's forecasted income and expenses each month?
Forecast vs. Actual
How did my company's forecast compare with its actual performance?
Closing Date Exception Report
What changes were made after the last closing date was set to transactions dated on or before that closing
date?
Open Sales Orders by Customer
What are the open sales orders for each customer or job?
QuickBooks Premier--Retail Reports
The following additional reports are available when you select the Retail version during the installation of
Premier Edition.
Profit & Loss Monthly Comparison
How does my company's profit and loss for this month compare to last month?
Purchase Volume by Vendor
From which vendors does my company purchase the most goods?
Customer Payments by Payment Item
What methods are my customers using to provide payment? What are the monthly payments trends from the
past year?
Vendor Returns Detail
What goods are most commonly returned to each vendor?
Inventory Stock Status by Vendor
What is the detailed information about each inventory item, organized by vendor?
Time by Item
How much time has my company spent on each service we provide?
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