What's New in QuickBooks 2011? - Finance - Accounting

Reporting ImprovementsCustomer Snapshot offers a consolidated view of an individual customer's purchase history, average days to pay, and outstanding balance. This helps small businesses make timely decisions on customer requests.QuickBooks Search lets users quickly locate any customer, account, report or invoice details within their QuickBooks repository with a simple keyword search.Customer and Vendor History provides at-a-glance views of important customer and vendor details, such as history, estimates and past orders, on a single screen.Balance Sheet by Class provides a way for QuickBooks Premier users to separately track multiple funds, departments or locations in a single, easy-to-access report.Efficiendy ImprovementsBatch Invoicing lets small businesses owners who often bill many customers for the same service streamline the process by creating one template invoice to send to all related customers. Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail Integration allows businesses to easily send i nvoices, estimates, and other e-mails from their preferred webmail service directly from QuickBooks. Collections Center helps users to quickly identify overdue and almost-due invoices, and then directly e-mail collection notices from their Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail accounts. Intuit PaymentNetwork (sold separately) provides a way for a small business's customers to instantly pay their invoices.QuickBoooks Accountant Edition ImprovementsMulti-Instance, allowing users to work in two different company files at the same time. File Manager, enabling users to manage all client QuickBooks files by version year, edition, and location, or group them by common characteristics set by the accountant. A built-in password vault stores user names and passwords in one place. It also automates the process of upgrading clients' QuickBooks files in batch to the latest version year.Reporting ImprovementsCustomer Snapshot offers a consolidated view of an individual customer's purchase his tory, average days to pay, and outstanding balance. This helps small businesses make timely decisions on customer requests.QuickBooks Search lets users quickly locate any customer, account, report or invoice details within their QuickBooks repository with a simple keyword search.Customer and Vendor History provides at-a-glance views of important customer and vendor details, such as history, estimates and past orders, on a single screen.Balance Sheet by Class provides a way for QuickBooks Premier users to separately track multiple funds, departments or locations in a single, easy-to-access report.Efficiendy ImprovementsBatch Invoicing lets small businesses owners who often bill many customers for the same service streamline the process by creating one template invoice to send to all related customers. Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail Integration allows businesses to easily send invoices, estimates, and other e-mails from their preferred webmail service directly from QuickBooks. Collecti ons Center helps users to quickly identify overdue and almost-due invoices, and then directly e-mail collection notices from their Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail accounts. Intuit PaymentNetwork (sold separately) provides a way for a small business's customers to instantly pay their invoices.QuickBoooks Accountant Edition ImprovementsMulti-Instance, allowing users to work in two different company files at the same time. File Manager, enabling users to manage all client QuickBooks files by version year, edition, and location, or group them by common characteristics set by the accountant. A built-in password vault stores user names and passwords in one place. It also automates the process of upgrading clients' QuickBooks files in batch to the latest version year.Upgrading TipsMake a backup of the QuickBooks company file before installing QuickBooks 2011. The backup should be stored somewhere outside of the primary computer.If purchasing QuickBooks Premier, always purchase th e Accountant Edition. The Accountant Edition contains all Premier versions and additional accounting tools.