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Features & Tools for Small Business Accounting

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From setup to support, QuickBooks Online makes your accounting easy. With simple tools to get you started, free support, and a money-back guarantee, QuickBooks Online is the effortless choice.

"It's secure. It's safe. I don't have to worry about our server in-house crashing [...] the data is always going to be there, and it's protected."

—Dennis Kirkpatrick,
Owner & Manager
European Collision Center

No Installation, No Downloads
Whether you're on a Mac or a PC, using QuickBooks Online is as easy as visiting a website. Since it's completely web-based, you never have to install or download traditional software, or worry about operating-system compatibility—you just launch your web browser and go. ¹

Getting Started Guide
Our simple Getting Started Guide walks you through exactly what you need to do to get your business set up in QuickBooks Online. You can get started in minutes—even if you don't have any accounting experience.

Free Customer Support
Get the answers you need, free. Our QuickBooks Online experts can help you get started, figure out new features, and more, so you can get the answers you need—at no additional charge. Email support is available between 6 am - 6 pm PST; please allow up to 24 hours for a reply.⁶

Import Contacts & Financial Data
Switching to online accounting is simple—QuickBooks Online imports your existing customer contacts from Microsoft Excel®, Outlook, or Gmail. And if you're currently using QuickBooks desktop software, you can also import your historical financial data, so you can start right where you left off. ⁵

Import from QuickBooks desktop is available in Essentials and Plus versions.

See how you can save time on your accounting >

Spend less time on your accounting and more on your business. QuickBooks Online streamlines and automates time-consuming accounting tasks like creating invoices, estimates, bills, reports, and checks, so you can focus on your business.

"It gives me more time to be productive and increase my business."

—Bob Buonocore,
Independent consultant
for the restaurant industry

Create & Manage Invoices
Create, customize, and manage all your invoices with ease. Bill any customer for services, time, or expenses (just once or on a recurring basis). Then track paid and unpaid invoices, so you can stay on top of your finances.

Create & Transfer Estimates
Create estimates using the same professional-looking templates as your invoices, then transfer your quote to an invoice once your work is complete for faster billing.

Automatic Billing
Don't miss out on outstanding charges—let QuickBooks Online automatically create all your invoices for you, on any schedule you set. You just tell it how often, and it will automatically scan your data, find every customer with outstanding charges, and create invoices for them. Then you just print or email.

Available in Essentials and Plus versions.

One-Click Business Reports
Create easy-to-read, customizable reports, including balance sheets, profit and loss, cash flow statements, taxable sales, and more than 60 other reports—in just one click.

Create, Print & Track Checks
Stay on top of spending and get professional-looking checks. Just enter the amount, and QuickBooks Online creates a check you can print and mail, adds it to your register, and captures all the data automatically for client billing, expense tracking, and reporting.

See how you can organize your finances >

Manage all your finances from one place. Organize your business with QuickBooks Online and get the financial information you need fast. Check your sales and expenses, payments, and inventories in an instant.

"I also like the reports like balance sheets and cash flow statements that make it easy for me to report back to my investors on financial status."

—Kent Libbey
Co-founder & CEO
Sharegrove

Be Ready at Tax Time
Make tax time hassle-free—QuickBooks Online keeps all your financials in sync, so you can pull the numbers you need easily. Plus, compute sales tax and prepare your 1099-MISC forms with QuickBooks Online and make all your tax preparation simpler.

Prepare and Print 1099s available in the Plus version.

Track Sales & Expenses
Keep track of every dollar that goes in and out of your business. Track customer payments, bills paid and invoiced, checks written and received, credit card payments, and more, so you know where your business stands.

Track Payments
See who owes you at a glance, plus who you owe. Track incoming and outgoing expenses, and easily track outstanding invoices, so you can stay on top of your business.

Inventory Tracking
Manage your inventory and know which items are in stock, how many you've sold, and how many you have on hand. And since QuickBooks Online uses standard inventory cost accounting rules, you stay IRS-compliant.

Available in the Plus version.

Budgeting & Planning
Estimate future income and expenses, create "what if" scenarios, and compare actual income and expenses with your budget projections to plan and fine-tune your strategy.

Available in the Plus version.

See how you can analyze your performance >

Know where your business stands today—and where it's going. Get in-depth tools for analyzing your business and industry. Understand your finances and customers, access industry trends, and more, so you can move your business forward.

"The flowcharts screen on QuickBooks Online is awesome
...money in, money out. It doesn't get much simpler than that."

—Elissa Greeley,
Consulting Accountant
ADOS Consulting, LLC

Company Snapshot
With easy-to-understand charts, graphs, and summaries, you can see what you're making, what you're spending, and how you're doing versus last year—all on one screen.

Available in Essentials and Plus versions.

Industry Trends
See how your business is doing overall and how it compares to industry averages. With industry trends, you can benchmark your own spending and profitability and track it against your industry's performance. ³

Available in Essentials and Plus versions.

Customer Center
Access all your customer data—including purchase history, average days to pay, and outstanding balances—from a single screen. See how much you've billed, what you've been paid, and how much you're owed, customer by customer.

Company Scorecard
Compare core business performance to your peers at a glance. With easy-to-read charts comparing your net profit margin, sales growth, and cash flow to comparable businesses, you can see how your business stacks up.

Available in Essentials and Plus versions.

Downloaded Transactions
QuickBooks Online downloads your most recent transactions from your bank or credit card company and automatically categorizes each transaction to keep your accounts in sync and current. ⁷

See how you can access your data >

Access your accounting anywhere, anytime. QuickBooks Online stores all your data safely and securely online, so you can reach it from your mobile phone or any Internet connection. Collaborate with others in real time and work anywhere—without ever having to sync data.

"If I need to send an invoice for example, I can send it right here from my phone, and it arrives just like I did it from a desktop PC. The formatting, everything, is exactly the same."

—Ian Boyd,
Web Design
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Online Access
Work at your office, at home, or on the road—anywhere there's an Internet connection. Since it's totally web-based, you have the freedom to run your business wherever you are, so you can print an invoice at a client location, check finances while traveling, or create an estimate from your home office.

Mobile Access
Access QuickBooks with one touch from your iPhone™ BlackBerry®, or Android-ready device. Manage your payables, receivables, bank balances, customer contact info, and more from your mobile phone.²

Multiple User Access
Collaborate with your accountant and other important users. With QuickBooks Online Essentials, you can give your accountant and three other users access, while QuickBooks Online Plus lets you connect with up to five other users, plus your accountant. ⁸

Multi-Location Collaboration
Connect colleagues across multiple locations. Share your QuickBooks Online data in real-time with your accountant, partner, or any other important user � even if you're in different countries.

Automatic Backups & Upgrades
With QuickBooks Online, you don't need to back up your data or upgrade your software yourself. It backs up your data for you every day, so even if your computer crashes, your data is safe. And since we maintain a single, completely current version of the software online, every user has access to our most current QuickBooks.

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³ Trends reports are based on anonymous aggregate data from QuickBooks Online user files for companies across the United States, and not the data of specific individuals.
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⁵ Importing data into QuickBooks Plus from another version of QuickBooks can take an hour or more, depending on the amount of data. QuickBooks Online can import a data file within the first 30 days of a new account being set up. Data can be imported from the following desktop versions of QuickBooks: Simple Start Edition; Pro 99 through 2011; Premier Edition 99 through 2011; Enterprise Solutions 99 through 2011; Basic 99 through 2005.
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