Features:

• Lets you create and track all the documents and forms you need to run your business efficiently
• Helps you track sales and expenses as you go, simplifying your bookkeeping so you'll be ready at tax time
• Simple to learn and use--get up and running in 15 minutes
• Track sales, expenses, and customers in one convenient place
• When your business grows, existing data converts easily into higher-end editions of QuickBooks

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
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!

Amazon.com:
Know how much money you're making. Be organized at tax time. QuickBooks Simple Start 2007 helps you track sales and expenses as you go, simplifying your bookkeeping. 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, desires, and peeves. 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.

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Simple Start is so easy to use, you don't need a thick manual--just a Quick Start card that tells you how to get started in three easy steps. You'll be up and running in three easy steps:

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

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Track sales, expenses, and customers in one place
Simple Start makes it easy to track the money coming in and the money going out of your business. Stop digging through piles of paper, switching applications, or searching through files to find the information you need. Simple Start organizes customers and vendors...your sales, estimates and invoices...your receipts, deposits, checks and expenses...all together, in one place.

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.

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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.

Be ready at tax time
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. Or give the report to your accountant. Or download the numbers into TurboTax, the number-one-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 and loss, sales, expenses, unpaid invoices, and more. 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. Click on each report's name in the list below to see an example. Or, download the comprehensive list of reports.

QuickBooks grows with you
It's easy to move up from Simple Start to more advanced QuickBooks products. As your business grows, QuickBooks has a full line of small business financial software to meet your needs. It's easy to upgrade 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.

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QuickBooks products are the most widely used and recommended business accounting software packages. Running a business is challenging enough without wondering if you're choosing the right software. So we let you try QuickBooks at no risk.

Satisfaction guaranteed
Try QuickBooks for up to 60 days at no risk. If you're not 100 percent satisfied for any reason, return it with your dated receipt for a full refund of the purchase price. We guarantee you'll be satisfied or we'll give you your money back.

Rating : - Perfectly named Simple Start is just that - and more!
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.