QuickBooks: Premier Contractor Edition - QuickBooks
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To meet the specific needs of the construction industry, Intuit developed QuickBooks Contractor Edition 8.0 with a number of capabilities designed for contractors. In addition to standard accounting tools, QuickBooks Contractor allows users to track job costs for employees, vendors and sub-contractors, and to create job costing reports for job status and analysis of costs and profits, according to Intuit. QuickBooks Contractor also includes a single-screen job costing center for simple project review. This offers the ability to easily track and print orders on construction estimates as well as flexible billing rates with different rates for different employees and tasks, the vendor said. Meanwhile, QuickBooks Premier Contractor, used by the majority of Intuit's clients, was created for contractors that must track change orders; manage job costs and track job status, and apply different billing rates for employees or sub-contractors, the company said.
In addition, QuickBooks Simple Start Plus Pack is available for small contractors, while QuickBooks Pro was designed for contractors that need to organize their business centrally and want to quickly create job costing reports and invoices, according to the vendor.
The final member of the Intuit family is QuickBooks: Enterprise Solutions: Contractor. This, Intuit said, is targeted at medium-sized firms that must track inventories of more than 14,500 items, vendors or customers; need multi-user controls for up to 20 individuals, and require advanced reporting capabilities.
For support, Intuit offers a message board, where contractors ranging from home-builders to painters, tile companies and start-ups discuss an array of topics and questions. Other forums on specific topics, as well as Webinars and training, are part of the toolkit available for users of QuickBooks software, according to the vendor.
