QuickBooks Product Details

Features:

• Easy start–up interview
• Support and product upgrades included (4,5)
• Prints checks, pay bills and track expenses
• Invoice customers, track payments & sales taxes
• Create estimates & invoices
• Save reports, invoices and forms as PDFs and email directly from QuickBooks (6)
• Customize professional–looking designs for forms
• Works with additional software for specialized needs (10)

(4) 30 consecutive days of support included from first–time registration. Offer valid 90 days from software purchase; U.S. only. Callback support; internet access required. See terms and conditions inside software. For Enterprise, Full Service Plan is good for 12 months from purchase. Dedicated support engineers available weekdays from 5 A.M. – 5 P.M. Pacific time. Intuit reserves the right to limit each telephone contact to one hour and to one incident. Support availability subject to occasional downtime for systems and server maintenance, company events, observed U.S. holidays, and events beyond our controls. Terms, conditions, pricing, service offerings, and availability of the Full Service Plan are subject to change at any time without notice.

(5) Full Service Plan is good for 12 months from purchase. Dedicated support engineers available weekdays from 5 A.M. – 5 P.M. Pacific time. Intuit reserves the right to limit each telephone contact to one hour and to one incident. Support availability subject to occasional downtime for systems and server maintenance, company events, observed U.S. holidays, and events beyond our controls. Terms, conditions, pricing, service offerings, and availability of the Full Service Plan are subject to change at any time without notice.

(6) Registration may be required. QuickBooks Online Edition does not save forms and reports as PDFs.

(10) Business software applications sold separately. For a complete list of software that works with QuickBooks, visit the Solutions Marketplace at http://marketplace.quickbooks.com.

System Requirements:

Processor, memory, and disk space

• At least 500 MHz (1 GHz recommended) Intel® Pentium® II (or equivalent) computer
• At least 128 MB (512 MB recommended) of RAM
• 800 MB Hard Disk space required to install the application. Additional space required for data files

Disk space requirements for additional software

• 70 MB for Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0, provided on QuickBooks CD
• 150 MB for Microsoft® .NET Framework CLR 1.1, provided on QuickBooks CD
• 9 MB for Timer

Additional hardware and software

• Microsoft® Windows 2000, XP or Vista operating system
• 2x CD–ROM drive
• 256–color SVGA monitor with a resolution optimized for 1024x768 (800 x 600 minimum supported) with 96 DPI size fonts (called Normal fonts in Windows XP and called Small fonts in Windows 2000)

Integration/compatibility requirements

QuickBooks is compatible with the following products, which are each sold separately.

• If you plan to use features that integrate with Microsoft® Word or Microsoft® Excel (such as writing letters or exporting reports), you need Microsoft® Word 2000, 2002, or 2003 or Microsoft® Excel 2000, 2002, or 2003. (More RAM enhances the use of these features.)
• If you want to synchronize with contact management software, you need either:
Microsoft® Outlook 98, 2000, 2002, or 2003 or

Symantec ACT!TM version 3.08, 4.02, or Interact 2000

Compatible with QuickBooks Customer Manager v2.0 and QuickBooks Client Manager v2.0

Compatible with QuickBooks Point–of–Sale 5.0

Business Planner functionality requires Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0, 6.0, or 7.0

Payroll and online features/services require Internet access with at least a 56 Kbps connection speed

Multi-user installation requirements

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.

Network File Storage Requirements

These system requirements cover the situation where a machine or server is used to store QuickBooks data files in a network environment where files are stored on one machine and accessed on another. The machine used for storing QuickBooks files must be a Windows 2000/Windows XP or Windows 2003 server.

• Novell Netware is supported but not recommended.
• Storing files on non–Windows or non–NetWare systems such as Linux, Samba or Sun NFS system is not supported. For additional details, see Connection errors or slow performance storing QuickBooks data files on Linux, Samba, Sun NFS or other non–Windows or non–NetWare operating systems.

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