With QuickBooks Simple Start Edition 2007, you have the simplest way to track sales and expenses. Simple Start does it automatically, as you create receipts or invoices and make deposits. It reports the totals instantly, so you can see exactly howyou're doing. Start using the simplest way to track sales and expenses! Know how much money you're making and be organized at tax time. Simple Start helps you track sales and expenses as you go, making your bookkeeping easy!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Perfectly named Simple Start is just that - and more!
Comment: Our home business has been going for years on Quicken and Excel. It wasn't a great solution, or a fast one, but it was cheap and I didn't have to spend a ton of time learning a complex new program.
Last month my need for invoicing, applying discounts, and keeping track of individual parts and selling units outweighed the abilities of our current system -- so I went looking for an inexpensive and easy solution.
I'd used Quickbooks Manufacturing at work, and it's a behemoth - definitely does the job, but not easy to learn all it's complexities very quickly.
I was worried that Simple Start would be a pared-down version, but still not easy or quick to learn. I also wasn't ready to pay the $70 price tag for the 2008 version.
Seeing the 2007 version available for a much cheaper price, I was willing to give it a shot. I'm very happy I did.
Simple Start was installed, data was entered and I was printing invoices in 3 hours!
An added bonus? A free online upgrade to Simple Start 2008!
Simple Start is a perfect fit for my tiny home-based business.
Customer Rating: Summary: Too limited.
Comment: Not suited for any business that does much volume or has employees. The ads didn't clearly tell me I couldn't add Payroll over this version. Ended up having to buy the full Quickbooks anyway, wasting money.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Quickbooks
Comment: Guess I didn't read enough. If you already have QB and do payroll, this is not what you want. Now with the 2007 versions - if you need to do payroll, you'll need QB Pro. Fortunately, QB did an upgrade for me at an upgrade discount, so I didn't loose the $ totally.
Customer Rating: Summary: Steep learning curve for non-accountants, Installation, support issues
Comment: I was looking for a simple package to keep records for small non-profit. Everyone advised me to get Quickbooks. Tried the free version first, but it is too limited. I can't even imagine a business so simple that version would work for. Tried Simple Start 2007, installed OK on first attempt and used the package for around 6 months. Learning curve is steep but manageable for non-accounting types. Biggest problem (and so far unsolvable) came about when I contracted a virus on my PC. After clearing off the virus I had to reload most of my applications and all came back up fine. Quickbooks will NOT reinstall. I've tried all their fixes from the Intuit website and nothing works. I called Intuit Quickbooks, turns out this is a known bug and they still wanted to charge a fee to allow me to talk to a customer service person. I've decided to write off the $100 for the Quickbooks and use the free Microsoft Office financial package. I won't be buying anymore Quickbooks packages.
Customer Rating: Summary: Easy to use
Comment: The product was easy to install and populate. If you want to import Quicken files you will need to upgrade to the Quickbooks Pro version.
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