QuickBooks Contractor 2010/11 QBⁱ series

Quickly and easily clean up data files so you can increase transaction processing speed. QuickBooks Contractor’s email functionality allows you work more efficiently by emailing invoices, estimates, statements, remittance advices, sales orders and other common business documents within minutes, and you can lodge your BAS online.

The hassle free way to bill out different labour rates for the same type of job. This ensures that your best customers get the best rates and that you can vary rates for different individuals doing similar jobs (for example, an apprentice versus a journeyman).

This accounting software can track your inventory movements and costs, including in different units of measure where required.

Job costs such as labour, materials, subcontractors and equipment rental, are all the costs of providing your service for a specific project. Once you know how much a job costs you, you can compare it to the revenue the job generated. That lets you see whether the job is profitable or not. Plus, the Job Costing Centre lets you quickly view your 3 most (and least) profitable jobs.

All payroll information is centralised and available at your fingertips in the Payroll Centre. From here you can perform all payroll tasks, drill down to previous payroll transactions, enter time, create and schedule payments, email pay slips to your employees, and even split their pays into multiple bank accounts. QuickBooks Contractor integrated payroll will save you time and money by avoiding duplicate data entry and will help you avoid hassles associated with incorrect payroll withholding.

It also includes useful features such as:

• Payroll Setup Wizard: this accounting software helps first-time users set up integrated payroll with clear and concise instructions at every step.

• Scheduled Payroll Wizard: helps make payroll processing convenient and hassle free. You can group your employees in the way that suits you, and set group attributes that makes payroll processing even easier.

• Edit or void past payroll payments: avoid the need to recalculate entire pay cheques, with inbuilt security safeguards and information messages. For example, when changing actual payroll hours and items, you can work in either Lock Net Pay or Unlock Net Pay mode.

• Enter Payroll Information window: allows for an overall view of the payroll process. You can enter the hours for all employees in a single window making payroll entry much easier.

• Enhanced superannuation module: this accounting software provides more calculation options, including the ability to store multiple super fund details for all existing and past super accounts.