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- Pros
Completely remodeled home page. Customizable navigation panel. Transaction and record screens redesigned, easier to read. New contact management features. App Center and industry-based versions extend usefulness.
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Awkward help system. Slow on older hardware.
- Bottom Line
Users who have been unhappy with QuickBooks' increasingly crowded interface will be happy with the 2013 editions. Intuit retained a lot of the old screen layouts and some of the navigation, but this year's versions are more visually pleasing and easier to use.
Should you drop the $400 it'll cost you to upgrade to this year's small business accounting software of choice, QuickBooks Premier Edition 2013? Tricky question. If you're already using QuickBooks (or any other small business accounting system), you know that the pace of change in the field has slowed over the last several years. The growth of these products has become evolutionary rather than revolutionary. They've come a long way in the two decades or so since they were first available and affordable on personal computers, meaning that you have about all of the tools you need to process your receivables and payables, run payroll and track inventory, and create reports.
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But there are a couple of major areas where these applications can improve. They can move more of their operations into the cloud to take advantage of what the internet offers and/or improve their aging, crowded work screens. Intuit is working on the first by continuing to build out QuickBooks Online. And a long overdue revamp of the desktop program's user interface is the highlight of QuickBooks 2013 (all versions, though we reviewed Premier). Whether you upgrade to this new edition depends on how old your current version is and the importance of usability to your accounting staff. The program's actual functional enhancements don't offer enough incentive to spend a few hundred dollars to update your software, but the other enhancements well might.
Unfamiliar With QuickBooks?
If you've never used QuickBooks or read much about it, here's what you need to know. For many years, it's won our Editors' Choice award. Though it has some formidable competition like Sage 50 U.S. (formerly Peachtree Accounting), I've recommended it above the others for several reasons, including:
• Its simplicity and usability. 20 years of growth had taken a toll on QuickBooks' interface, but it was still the easiest overall to learn and master.
• Its blend of features. Intuit's family of desktop applications offered a set of tools that would meet the needs of many small businesses, but it wasn't so feature-packed that it was overwhelming.
• Its extensibility. The Intuit App Center has grown to include hundreds of add-ons that integrate with QuickBooks and provided specialized functionality.
QuickBooks is a double-entry accounting system, which basically means that it follows standard bookkeeping rules. You don't have to worry about that because the program takes care of the debits and credits in the background. You'll do your work much as you do on paper or via another software program.
Numerous Lifelines
When you have questions, as you will, you can choose from a variety of support options. QuickBooks has a fairly comprehensive built-in help system, but it's slower and more troublesome to use than the one that appeared in long-ago versions. There's an online troubleshooting database and community forums, and many accounting professionals provide assistance; you can find a local expert on the website.
Be aware, too, that QuickBooks' long history and countless upgrades and revisions have made it a very complex piece of software. If you have hardware that's more than a couple years old, you may experience slow operation at times.
Accounts, Records, Transactions and Reports
QuickBooks may organize things differently than you do now, but it accomplishes the same tasks. It sets up a Chart of Accounts for you based on your business type and helps you create bank and credit card accounts. You can still hand-write checks if you want and enter them in the program's registers, but it's easier to do so within the software. QuickBooks accommodates online banking and merchant accounts, so you can accept credit cards and electronic checks.
Information about your customers, vendors and employees is stored in individual records. When you begin entering financial data on forms like invoices and purchase orders, these records will be used to automatically populate fields on your transaction forms. Record and transaction information will also be used to create the reports you'll need to run. QuickBooks contains dozens of ready-made templates and allows you to customize your output and/or export it into Excel. Because of the close integration throughout the system, you should be able to avoid duplicate data entry.
The transaction forms and other screens where you actually do your work look like their paper counterparts in many cases. You use them to do the same accounting chores you're used to doing, like sending invoices, estimates and purchase orders; entering and paying bills; running payroll and dispatching paychecks, filings and taxes; and tracking inventory. QuickBooks uses a lot of the same conventions that you're familiar with from other Windows software, like icons, pull-down lists and menus.
Slimming Down
Intuit had three goals for the new versions of QuickBooks. The company wanted to make it, '...easy to use, easy to understand and easy to look at.' QuickBooks 2013 achieves all three of those goals with its totally redesigned interface. The difference between 2012 and 2013 is startling. You can now move quickly to the most commonly-used functions from the opening view.
The new home screen contains three basic components by default. The old interactive process map that illustrates your workflow remains, but the icons are larger and more spread out. All of the extra navigational links that had been tacked on over the years are gone, absorbed by other, hidden parts of the program.
Standard file menus are still there, but there's a new vertical navigation panel that contains a customizable list of shortcuts to QuickBooks functions on top. Directly below are links to reminders and alerts; account balances; your favorite reports; and open windows. And the lower pane provides access to additional Intuit services. You can display the toolbar to the left, across the top, or not at all.
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Bottom Line: Users who have been unhappy with QuickBooks' increasingly crowded interface will be happy with the 2013 editions. Intuit retained a lot of the old screen layouts and some of the navigation, but this year's versions are more visually pleasing and easier to use.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Small businesses can work smarter and more efficiently with the 2013 version of the best-selling QuickBooks financial software from Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU).
“I’m excited to start using QuickBooks 2013 in my practice, to share this new QuickBooks experience with my fellow QuickBooks ProAdvisors and to introduce the product to my clients.”
A reimagined and improved design helps small businesses complete financial tasks faster than ever so they can spend more time building their businesses. QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2013 deliver all existing QuickBooks features, plus new enhancements requested by users, in a clean and simple experience that’s optimized for efficiency, and that makes adding functionality, such as third-party applications, as easy as one click. The software is scheduled to go on sale Sept. 24.
“Over the past 20 years, we’ve addressed small businesses’ financial management needs by expanding the functionality of QuickBooks,” said Dan Wernikoff, senior vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Financial Management Solutions division. “This release delivers the QuickBooks small businesses love with an easier-than-ever user experience. With QuickBooks 2013 small businesses can complete their financial and accounting responsibilities as quickly as possible, letting them spend their time on other priorities, like serving existing and attracting new customers.”
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A Clean and Simple Experience
QuickBooks 2013 takes a three-pronged approach to make the product easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to look at. Based on a 2012 survey, two-thirds of beta testers agreed that QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2013 will help them work more efficiently. Users will find:
- A unified look and feel: Visual cues, such as icons, help users find the controls they need faster than before and quickly determine what actions to take from screen to screen.
- Familiar interactions: A design that’s similar to popular Web applications means there is virtually no learning curve so users can get right to work.
- Clear steps: Design elements remove the guesswork from workflows, speeding task completion. For example, specific colors signal specific actions across the product.
In addition, a new navigational Ribbon displays and groups the most commonly used menu items across the top of transaction forms, such as invoices and sales receipts. The Ribbon provides fast access to the controls small businesses need in forms – eliminating a number of clicks, and uncovering helpful features that users may have overlooked.
“Intuit put a lot of careful thought into the new look of QuickBooks 2013. The new interface is sleek and modern – and makes QuickBooks even more user friendly,” said Joe Woodard, CEO of Woodard Consulting Group, Atlanta, Ga., and host of Scaling New Heights, an annual conference for QuickBooks ProAdvisors. “I’m excited to start using QuickBooks 2013 in my practice, to share this new QuickBooks experience with my fellow QuickBooks ProAdvisors and to introduce the product to my clients.”
Optimized for Efficiency
Updates and additions to QuickBooks 2013 help small businesses complete tasks and find the information they need faster than ever. These include:
- New Navigation Panel: Access shortcuts to the most commonly visited parts of QuickBooks in one click via a persistent navigation panel on the left side of the screen, saving time moving from one activity to the next. Users can also add their favorite reports to the panel, so the latest insights about business performance are only a click away.
- Updated Centers: Consolidate and organize more important customer and vendor information in the Customer and Vendor Centers to save time searching for data typically stored outside of QuickBooks. Small businesses can now assign multiple contacts to customers and vendors, and pin to do’s to customers. In addition, users can track twice as many types of contact information for customers and vendors, such as Facebook pages or Twitter handles.
To boost efficiency, Intuit also addressed dozens of user-requested improvements. For example, tables in QuickBooks 2013 sport larger fonts and taller row heights to improve legibility. Small businesses can also now add multiple notes to contacts and add notes to inventory reports.
Customize QuickBooks in One Click
QuickBooks 2013 grows and evolves with small businesses by easily connecting to third-party applications and user contributed reports. This includes:
- Tighter integration with the Intuit App Center enables small businesses to discover, try and access applications that integrate with and personalize the capabilities of QuickBooks based on their distinct needs in just one click. QuickBooks recommends useful app solutions at appropriate moments to address small business needs beyond financial management and to enhance productivity.
- Contributed Reports, introduced in QuickBooks 2012, provide a library of custom, user-generated reports by industry, rating and popularity and have grown significantly to more than 6,500 in the 2013 version. Reports populate with QuickBooks data in just one click.
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For growing small businesses with increasing complexity, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 13.0 provides greater flexibility, with capabilities that users can turn on or add on as needed, such as Advanced Inventory.
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Intuit also introduced the 2013 edition of QuickBooks Accountant, the company’s leading bookkeeping, write-up and financial reporting solution for accounting professionals. New features include:
- Batch Enter Transactions: Quickly and easily enter groups of transactions, or paste and save more than 1,000 transactions from Excel into QuickBooks.
- Send General Journal Entries: Email journal entries to clients directly from QuickBooks, and clients simply “click” to import entries automatically from an email attachment.
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Pricing and Availability
QuickBooks Financial Software Pro and Premier, including industry-specific versions, can be purchased directly from Intuit on or around Sept. 24 by calling 877-683-3280 or visiting www.quickbooks.com. QuickBooks Pro and Premier are scheduled to be available on Oct. 7 at participating retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, BJ’s, Costco, Fry’s, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Sam’s and Staples.
Suggested retail prices for 2013 editions are:
- QuickBooks Pro: For newer and existing small businesses: $249.95
- QuickBooks Premier, including industry-specific editions for accountants, contractors, manufacturers and wholesalers, nonprofits, professional service firms and retailers: For established and expanding small businesses: $399.95
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Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 13.0, including industry-specific editions, will be available from Intuit by calling 866-379-6635 or visiting www.qbes.com. It will also be available through authorized Intuit Resellers, which can be found at www.qbes.com/localhelp. Price for a five-user version: $3,000, or $2,400 for existing QuickBooks customers.