Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #137 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

Perfect for its intended market
QuickBooks SimpleStart was introduced to fill the gap in the market left when Intuit withdrew the Quicken home software in the UK. Many small businesses were using Quicken (which, by the way, had no VAT or invoice features) to manage their accounts.

SimpleStart is defintely simple... but that has always been one of the strengths of the QuickBooks range. Ease of use is essential for hard pressed entrepreneurs! Although a number of different types of businesses could make use of SimpleStart it is best used by sole traders offering a service.

SimpleStart has never made any big claims about VAT. It can only handle VAT on a cash basis (the UK standard is accrual) but then its target audience is not VAT registered businesses.

There were definitely a number of bugs in the 2008 QuickBooks line-up but this was a result of a massive effort over the past two years to bring the UK software up to the same level as that enjoyed in the US. These bugs have been addressed in the past year with various patches that are included on the most recent CDs and we are more than happy with the latest versions of the software.

Finally, bear in mind that accounting software is IMPORTANT and if you're not sure which product you need you should consult one of the many QuickBooks professionals out there on the web that will give you free advice on the pluses and minuses of all versions of the software.

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.