Product Description

Brand New - Full UK Retail Boxed - Exactly the same as amazons - Price includes VAT and invoice supplied.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83 in Software
• Brand: Intuit
• Released on: 2007-09-28
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .71 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
QuickBooks Simple Start 2008 is an easy-to-use free accounting software to manage your business better.

Customer Reviews

Waste of time
Purchased QuickBooks SimpleStart 2008 to tidy up my girlfriends accounts as I am familier with the software as I used quickbooks 8 a ten year old package that cost £40 as was excellent and is easy to use. This Simplestart 2008 is so basic it is not worth buying.Type an amount you are trying to find in my old version up it pops or several of the same amount with the dates for you to choose. This version has not even got this find option. Try getting a free trial of something else of the net and stay well clear of intuit. Waste of hard earned money

This product is too limited
Although superficially it looks like it'll do everything I'll need for my micro-business, having spent quite some time setting it up, I then find I can't do certain things: In particular you can only pay expenses from your bank account / credit card account / [petty] cash account - not set them against another account - in my case I have things like phone and electricity that I'll pay for myself - I'll then pay myself a cheque for these expenses. But that's just not possible with this product. The other thing I found I can't do with this product is record a bounced cheque such that it adjusts the client's balance accordingly.

The help and tutorials provided with this product are moderately useful, but the moment you want to do something a bit more adventurous like the above you rapidly find the limits of the package. I realise it's a cut-down package, but surely recording bounced cheques and transferring expenses across accounts are basic needs for any business. It boils down to a product that won't do all you need to do, so you'll have to upgrade to QuickBooks Pro (but see the negative reviews people have put there) or abandon QuickBooks altogether. In my case I can't face setting up my business in another accounting package (took me 2 days with this), I'll go back to my cumbersome but capable double-entry paper record-keeping.

Quickbooks Con
I ordered this from Amazon who as usual offered a very competative price and good delivery, so no argument there at all.
However, the software is very disappointing. The major issue being that know where on any of the Quickbooks documentation or on the Intuit websites does it tell you this will not allow you to load any previous Quickbooks company files. Our business is very simple, no stock, no salaries to pay, the only complication being VAT (which I now understand it calculates incorrectly anyway). We don't need all the functions in the Pro version at all, so this looked ideal.
So be warned, look else where if you already use another version of Quickbooks. The only good thing is the 30 day return to Intuit warranty, which I will certainly be using.