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QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack is the simplest way to track sales and expenses with just the right tools to show you how much money you are making and to help you get organized for tax time.

QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack combines bookkeeping software with essential tools for your small business. It's the simplest way to track sales and expenses.

• Getting started quickly with easy-to-use software and a step-by-step training CD that teaches you the basic accounting knowledge
• Easily keep track of money coming in and going out of your business
• Organize customer and vendor information all in one software program--so nothing slips through the cracks
• No more switching between spreadsheets and paper files, data is organized and easy to find.
• Automatically track tax-related income and expenses
• Essential reports on profit and loss, sales and expenses, are instantly generated based on transactions you've already entered.
• Easily import your existing financial data from Microsoft Microsoft Excel
• Project a professional image with 250 Standard or Voucher Checks
• Protect your financial data and important files from computer virus', loss or disaster with 1 year QuickBooks Online Backup Service
• 30 days of Simple Start email support included
• Guaranteed easy, or your money back.

It's incredibly simple
Simple Start isn't someone else's idea of how you'd like your business to run–it's your idea. We listened to hundreds of small business owners talk about their difficulties and desires. You'll see what we mean, as soon as you try it. From the simple desktop to the familiar forms and helpful guidance, everything works just the way you want it to.

Import data from Microsoft Microsoft Excel
If you've been using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to track your sales and expenses, now you can import your existing data from Microsoft Excel directly into Simple Start. You'll save time and avoid the hassle of manually entering your data.

Get up and running in three easy steps
Simple Start is so easy to use, you don't need a thick manual–just a QuickStart card that tells you how to get started in three easy steps. You'll be up and running in less than 15 minutes:

1. Insert the CD into your CD drive.
2. Answer three easy questions to customize Simple Start for your needs.
3. Start working.

No accounting knowledge needed!
Simple Start's onscreen forms look like the checks, invoices, and sales receipts you use in your business every day. The moment you see them, you'll know how to use them.

Get everything you need, and nothing you don't
Simple Start lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently, but it doesn't overwhelm you with tools you won't use and shouldn't have to pay for.

Valuable business tools and services
Essential tools to help you manage your small business better including: a training CD, 250 checks, and online backup service.

Get up to speed quickly with the Learning Accounting Essentials training CD

• Learn accounting basics with easy–to–understand terminology.
• See how to set up Simple Start so you'll track sales and expenses correctly.
• Get step–by–step instructions on how to use Simple Start to perform basic tasks including invoicing customers, receiving payments, paying bills, and running reports.

Protect your financial data with QuickBooks Online Backup Service

• Receive a 1 year subscription to the service with 1GB of storage.
• Schedule automatic backups so you don't have to worry about data loss.
• Protect your critical data from computer viruses, natural disasters, and more.
• Access your files quickly and easily from any PC with an Internet connection using this Internet-based service.

Project a professional image with 250 Standard or Voucher Checks

• Save time compared to hand–writing software checks.
• Project a more professional image for your business.
• Use checks with your printer and Simple Start software.

Grows with your business
It's easy to move up from Simple Start to more advanced QuickBooks software products.

Simple Start grows with your business
As your business grows, QuickBooks has a full line of small business financial software to meet your needs. It's easy to upGrade Computer learning software computer game educational software from either edition of Simple Start to QuickBooks: Pro, Premier, or Online Edition. All the information you enter into Simple Start can be automatically transferred to your new version of QuickBooks.

Note: Simple Start is for new QuickBooks users. Simple Start cannot import data from prior versions of QuickBooks: Basic, Pro or Premier Editions, Intuit Quicken, or Peachtree.

Trust the solution recommended by businesses and accountant
With 3 million users, QuickBooks is the most widely used small business accounting software. It's recommended by accountants over any other software product. A 10–year history of continuous improvement assures you of the simplest, most flexible software for your business.

Track Sales, Expenses, and Customers in One Place
Simple Start makes it easy to track the money coming in and going out of your business.

Keep everything together in one place
Stop digging through piles of paper, switching applications, or searching through files to find the information you need. Simple Start organizes everything from customers and vendors, to sales, estimates, and invoices, to receipts, deposits, checks, and expenses--all in one place.

Create estimates, invoices, and sales receipts
With Simple Start you can easily create professional-looking estimates, invoices, and sales receipts just by entering information into simple forms. No more toggling back and forth between spreadsheets and a word processor to create bills and track them. To save you even more time, you can easily turn an estimate into an invoice, or an invoice into a payment.

Record your expenses quickly and painlessly
Tired of rustling through check registers and credit card statements to see where your money is going? Use Simple Start to write checks and track your expenses. Every time you pay a bill, Simple Start keeps your records up-to-date so you'll know where you stand.

Manage payroll within QuickBooks and save time (additional fees apply)
QuickBooks Payroll services help make your payroll easier and more accurate. They offer automatic calculations, the latest tax tables and forms, at–a–glance screens to manage activities and computer games, and built–in Direct Deposit.

QuickBooks Payroll is a subscription–based service that works right inside QuickBooks, so there's no double–entry, and nothing new to learn.

Accept credit cards in Simple Start
Everything you need to accept credit transactions is in Simple Start. There's no need to buy additional hardware or software. Credit card sales are automatically processed as you enter them in Simple Start, so all your financial information is organized in one place.

Complete and accurate records at tax time
Make tax time a snap when all of your information is organized. No last–minute panic!

Get the numbers you need
Simple Start keeps track of tax-related income and expenses year-round as you write checks and receive payments, so there's no need to scramble at tax time.

The "Income Tax Summary" report helps you complete federal income tax forms. Print it out, and copy the totals to Schedule C and other tax forms. You can also give the report to your account or download the numbers into TurboTax, the best-selling tax preparation software (sold separately).

One more click creates your "Sales Tax Due," which summarizes the sales tax you owe to your city, state, or county tax boards. It's really that simple.

Know exactly where your business stands
Instantly create reports on profit & loss, sales, expenses, unpaid invoices, and more.

Essential business information at your fingertips
You'll always know where your business stands with Simple Start's reports. See who owes you money and how much. Find out who your best customers are and what they're buying. Click on any item in the report to zoom in for the details–all the way down to individual transactions.

Look more professional and save time
Spend less time on your bookkeeping and paperwork and more time building your business.

Professional–looking templates you can customize
Choose from sales receipt, invoice, estimate, and credit memo form templates that you can customize to help you present a branded, professional image. You can change styles, colors, and fonts. You can show or hide fields. You can even include your company logo!

Calculate totals accurately and automatically
No more erasing and rewriting software totals or double–checking calculations. Simple Start helps keep your transactions and records accurate by doing all the Math Program and math learning software software for you, including sales tax, discounts, and markups. If you change a transaction, any figures linked to it update instantly.

Re–use information instead of retyping it
Type information about a customer, vendor, or software product one time, and never type it again. Enter the first few letters on any invoice, check, or other form and Simple Start fills the rest in automatically. Easily create new estimates by duplicating and editing existing ones. And when you finish a job, click a button to turn your estimate into an invoice. Billing has never been so easy!

(Intuit) We're here to help
Whether you're a do–it–yourselfer or you prefer to call in the experts, you'll find the answer you're looking for in our various help and support resources.

Free e–mail support for the first 30 days
Get personalized help for the first 30 days after you register the software product. Simply go online to submit your question, and a support expert will e–mail you back. It's included with Simple Start–at no extra charge.

Free installation, upGrade Computer learning software computer game educational software, and error message assistance
If you ever have trouble installing or upgrading your software or if you need help with a QuickBooks specific error message, we're happy to offer you free support.

Two–minute tutorials and help screens
Learn Simple Start features quickly with in–software product tutorials that let you practice essential tasks until you're ready to do them on your own. While you're working, you can get quick answers from the onscreen help.

Online Knowledge Base and User Community
You can search our online Knowledge Base to find answers and helpful tips any hour of the day or night. Or, visit the QuickBooks User Community to connect with other QuickBooks users and experts to ask questions and share advice.

Local QuickBooks Experts
Find a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who can help you get set up and provide accounting advice tailored to your business. (Fees may apply.) Learn More

Paid Support
Get round–the–clock access to technical support experts who can answer your QuickBooks questions. (Fees apply.)

Software Computer Requirements

• Processor: IBM Compatible 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent)
• Memory: 512 MB of RAM
• Minimum Software Computer Requirements
• Processor: IBM Compatible 500 MHz Intel Pentium II (or equivalent)
• Memory: 256 MB of RAM
• Operating system software: Microsoft Microsoft windows XP/Vista
• Hard Disk: 1 GB of disk space for QuickBooks installation. Additional space required for data files.
• CD-ROM Drive: 2X CD-ROM
• Monitor: optimized for 1024x768, supports 800x600 with small fonts
• Modem: All online services/features require Internet access with at least a 56Kbps modem
• Printer: Works with any printer supported by Microsoft windows XP/Vista
• For Vista users, 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) and 1 GB RAM
• Download Computer Requirements
• To download QuickBooks you must have:
• A high-speed Internet connection (DSL, cable modem, or higher)
• 2.5 GB free disk space
• Important: Customers with dial-up connections cannot download QuickBooks, due to the large file size.