Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 11

Get advanced functionality with the ease of QuickBooks.

Designed for businesses with more complex needs, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions offers all the features in QuickBooks Premier plus:

• Enhanced reporting customization
• Sophisticated inventory capabilities
• More productivity tools
• Expanded user controls
• Room to grow
• Full service support and upgrades

Strength in Numbers:

More than 85,000 companies have selected QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. Join them and get the functionality you need for $1,000s less than comparable systems.

Get exclusive access to our team of U.S.-based QuickBooks experts who can advise you on how to use Enterprise Solutions more effectively within your business. Plus, take advantage of our free data conversion to help you get up and running quickly.

Reasons to Buy:

Business Leaders

As the head of your company, you know the critical decisions you make daily have both short- and long-term effects on the success of your business. One of the most important calls you can make is choosing the right software to enable your business to keep moving forward. QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions enables you to:

• Use software that’s tailored to your industry
• Always know where your business stands
• Control what users can do and see in QuickBooks
• Save thousands versus comparable systems
• Rest assured the software will scale as your business grows

Company Snapshot
Struggling to get a quick, daily update on your business? Want to see an up-to-the-minute account of who owes you money, bills that need to be paid, and reminders? Company Snapshot can provide you with a real-time overview of your business, all in one centralized and easily accessible location, so that you can always stay on top of your business.

Add Up to 30 Simultaneous Users
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions supports up to 30 simultaneous users, boosting productivity across your organization. Adding more users after your initial purchase is fast and easy - simply purchase the additional licenses in 5-user increments, install the software on their PC and point them to your Enterprise Solutions company file.

Track 100,000+ Customers, Vendors and Inventory
Give your business room to grow with the capacity to add and track hundreds of thousands of vendors, customers and items. That’s more than six times the capacity of any other QuickBooks product.

Multi-Currency Capability
Grow your business globally with Enterprise Solutions’ new multi-currency capabilities. Apply and calculate foreign currencies automatically on transactions, such as sales orders, invoices and purchase orders, so you can do business with your international customers and offshore vendors more easily.

Payroll Processing Including Direct Deposit
Enterprise Solutions’ easy-to-use payroll tools offer several ways to streamline the payroll process from setting up new employees to automating payroll. Included is a Direct Deposit feature that will save you the trouble of printing paychecks, and save your employees a trip to the bank. With Direct Deposit, Enterprise Solutions lets you deposit employees’ pay directly into their bank account(s).

Go Beyond Financial Management
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions works seamlessly with QuickBooks Payroll, Intuit Payment Solutions, and Field Service Management ES to help you streamline key tasks across your organization.

Financial Managers

As the person responsible for managing the financial risks and supervising the accounting and financial reporting within your business, you know that one of the most important decisions your company can make is to choose the right software to accurately and easily manage its finances. QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions delivers the financial controls your business needs for thousands less than alternatives, plus gives you the legendary ease of use that QuickBooks is known for. QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions enables you to:

• Get the core accounting functionality you need
• Always know where your business stands
• Create professional financial statements
• Control what users can do and see in QuickBooks
• Save thousands versus comparable systems

Run Key Financial Reports Instantly
Use any of Enterprise Solutions’ 120+ standard reports, such as Profit and Loss, Forecast vs. Actual Budget, Statement of Cash Flows and A/R Aging Detail, to get real-time visibility into your business’ performance.

Automatically Track Expenses & Pay Bills
Record bills as they arrive - QuickBooks alerts you when they’re due. No more worrying about late fees and finance charges. When it’s time to pay your invoices, simply click a button to turn each bill entry into a check. Print checks one-at-a-time or in batches.

Combine Reports from Multiple Company Files
If your company operates from multiple locations, save time and avoid errors by consolidating financial reports in one easy step. No manual calculations or mistakes. Just choose a report: Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, Cash Flow, or Trial Balance. Select the data files to draw from, and Enterprise Solutions creates a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with a column for each location, and a column that totals them all.

Intuit Statement Writer
Create professional financial statements right from QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions with the Intuit Statement Writer, a $150 value included at no additional cost. Intuit Statement Writer works directly within Microsoft® Excel13 for maximum flexibility and provides a real-time link to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions accounting data so your statements update as you make account level changes.

Always-on Audit Trail
An "always on" audit trail greatly reduces the time spent investigating changes to your Enterprise Solutions files since the last time you reviewed them. The Audit Trail can help protect you against employee fraud and detect employee errors because it records transactions that are being entered, edited or deleted from the system with no impact on Enterprise Solutions’ performance.

First Year Support and Upgrades Included with Full Service Plan
Enterprise Solutions includes a one year membership to the Full Service Plan,1 entitling you to technical support, product upgrades, training tools, online backup and data protection services.

IT Managers

As an IT manager, you know that the inner workings of your business software can have a big impact on a company’s success. Being held back or slowed down by your software is simply not an option. QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions can make your life easier by giving your business the power, scalability, and ease of use it needs for thousands less than alternatives. QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions allows you to:

• Get up and running in days, not months
• Save thousands versus comparable systems
• Control what users can do and see in QuickBooks
• Get the flexibility to work the way you want
• Rest assured the software will scale as your business grows

First Year Support and Upgrades Included with Full Service Plan
Enterprise Solutions includes a one year membership to the Full Service Plan, entitling you to technical support, product upgrades, training tools, online backup and data protection services.

Advanced User Permissions
Give your employees access to the information and activities they need to do their jobs, without exposing your data to accidental or intentional misuse. Allow or restrict your users to access over 115 individual reports, bank accounts, lists and activities in Enterprise Solutions.

SQL Database for Added Scalability
Enterprise Solutions has a powerful, industry-standard SQL database underneath the hood that can scale with your business as it grows. The database is state-of-the-art technology. It is a relational database that uses client-server technology in multi-user mode to coordinate and manage access to the company file. You don’t have to worry about complex database installation and access, and you don’t need to know SQL to use it.

Access Your Data with OBDC-compliant Applications
For more advanced reporting needs, you can retrieve your QuickBooks data with ODBC-compliant applications such as Microsoft® Access or Excel to see data just the way you want. Link to various business applications and build custom reports, queries or forms.

Run your Database Server on Linux
Run the QuickBooks Database Server on Linux. Store your QuickBooks data on a Linux server and use QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions running on your Windows desktop client to access that data. Now you can utilize the server operating system of your choice to meet the needs of your business environment.

Connect Remote Workers and Locations
Unify remote workers and satellite offices with a high-performance, "real-time" link to your QuickBooks data. Enterprise Solutions works with Remote Desktop Services to allow password-protected access by authorized users. Remote users get top performance because processing takes place on your server, not their PC. From the moment they log on, they’re valuable members of the team - whether they’re in the main office or satellite office, onsite or offsite.

Features:

New in Version 11.0

Work in Two Company Files at the Same Time
Save time switching between QuickBooks files by working in two instances of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions at the same time.

Track Inventory in Multiple Locations
Accurately track the quantity and value of inventory items held in multiple locations with the new Advanced Inventory add-on (sold separately) for QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.

Improved Custom Reporting
Exclusive to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, you can create custom reports using ODBC-compliant applications with a new way to directly access the QuickBooks database for maximum flexibility in report design.

Enhanced Built-in Reports
Drive further efficiency in your business with enhancements to several key QuickBooks reports. New reports include Customer Average Days To Pay and Sales by Ship To Address. We've also added Quantity totals on key Sales by Item reports and improved the Open Sales Orders by Item report.

Additional Combined Reports
Exclusive to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, now you can create a Profit & Loss by Class and Sales by Customer Summary report that combines data from multiple company files. Other combined reports include Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Statement of Cash Flows, and Trial Balance.

Create a Template and Invoice Many Customers at Once with Batch Invoicing
When you are invoicing many customers for the same service, you'll be able to save the time previously spent on creating individual invoices by using QuickBooks' new batch invoicing capabilities.

Quickly Prioritize Customers with the Customer Snapshot
The Customer Snapshot gives you a consolidated view so you can assess at a glance each customer's purchase history, outstanding balance, and other key metrics so you can make timely decisions on customer requests.

Stay on Top of Your Receivables with the Collections Center
Quickly identify overdue and almost due invoices and e-mail collection notices in a few steps.

Streamline Additional Business Processes
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions integrates with new integrated web-based solutions to manage additional business processes critical to your organization.

Reporting & Finances

See Business Data at a Glance
The Company Snapshot helps you stay on top of your business from a single screen, with data presented just the way you want it. Choose at-a-glance reports that are most crucial for managing your business. Report options include yearly expense and income comparison, detailed expense and income breakdown, and a top customer list.

Run Key Financial Reports Instantly
Use any of Enterprise Solutions’ 120+ standard reports, such as Profit and Loss, Forecast vs. Actual Budget, Statement of Cash Flows, A/R Aging Detail and Customer Average Days to Pay, to get real-time visibility into your business performance. You can easily customize these standard reports to your needs and memorize your changes for future use. You can also export your data to Microsoft Excel to conduct your own specific analyses.

Combine Reports from Multiple Company Files
If your company operates from multiple locations, save time and avoid errors by consolidating financial reports in one easy step. No manual calculations or mistakes. Just choose a report: Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Profit & Loss by Class, Statement of Cash Flows, Trial Balance, or Sales by Customer Summary. Select the data files to draw from, and Enterprise Solutions creates a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with a column for each location, and a column that totals them all.

Create Financial Statements
Easily create professional financial statements with the Intuit Statement Writer, a $150 value included at no additional cost. Intuit Statement Writer links your QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions files with Microsoft® Excel so you can build and update professional statements. Create Microsoft Word-based reports and documents,52 create up to 16 statements within a single Microsoft Excel workbook, and send consolidated reports in PDF format.63 Plus, documents and statements can be saved as a custom report template for easy reuse.

Export Data to Microsoft Excel
Export your QuickBooks data to a new or existing Excel spreadsheet. No retyping! Excel automatically applies existing formulas to the new data. Use the export feature to quickly make global changes, such as updating telephone area codes, then import the data back into QuickBooks. Efficiently add groups of new vendors or customers to QuickBooks by importing them in one easy step.

Create Custom Reports
For more advanced reporting needs, you can create custom reports with ODBC-compliant applications by connecting directly to the QuickBooks database for maximum flexibility in report design.

Stay on Top of Your Receivables
The Collections Center helps you quickly identify overdue and almost due invoices and email collection notices in a few steps.

Track Expenses and Pay Bills Automatically
Record bills as they arrive — QuickBooks alerts you when they’re due. No more worrying about late fees and finance charges. When it’s time to pay your invoices, simply click a button to turn each bill entry into a check. Enterprise Solutions lets you print checks one-at-a-time or in batches.

Download Your Bank and Credit Card Transactions into QuickBooks
Download transactions from more than 500 financial institutions right into Enterprise Solutions. No errors. No typing. Now you can enter downloaded transactions in as little as one click. Associate downloaded payees to existing names in your Enterprise Solutions lists, and Enterprise Solutions standardizes the downloaded entries, helping to ensure “clean” lists and accurate reports.

Track Fixed Assets
Track fixed assets such as computers and other office equipment with our Fixed Asset Manager. Track each purchase from acquisition to disposition, and automatically calculate depreciation for up to six asset bases, including federal, state, book, and AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax).

Instantly Prepare for Tax Time
Enterprise Solutions tracks your income, expenses, sales tax and payroll while you record transactions so you’re ready for taxes anytime. Let your accountant work directly in a copy of your Enterprise Solutions file, or generate any needed reports and e-mail them as PDF files.

Track Tax Deductible Expenses Automatically
Get every deduction you’re entitled to without spending your time sorting receipts or adding up totals. Enterprise Solutions tracks your income and expenses and organizes them by tax category automatically as you record sales, write checks and pay employees. Enterprise Solutions tax alerts can remind you of quarterly and monthly tax deadlines, so you never have to worry about late-payment penalties. You can report your taxable income and expenses any time, at a moment’s notice.

Inventory

Track Hundreds of Thousands of Parts or Service Items
Give your business room to grow with the capacity to add and track hundreds of thousands of inventory, non-inventory, or service items. That’s more than six times the capacity of any other QuickBooks product.

Know Your Inventory Stock Status
With the built-in inventory stock status report you can check your inventory needs instantly and reorder as needed. See quantities on-hand, on sales order and on purchase order for each item. Set reorder points based on inventory levels and get automatic alerts to help you keep up with demand.

Change Assembly Components on the Fly
Change quantity and item components on the fly to make substitutions or accommodate special customer requests. Add custom fields, such as serial or lot numbers, to track builds more closely than ever before.  Plus print your build assembly with the click of a button and see the quantities needed to accurately build a job.

Rapidly Add or Edit Multiple Items
Save time by entering and editing your item information in bulk from one spreadsheet view. You can even copy and paste data from other spreadsheets.

Track Unique Information with Custom Fields
Use custom fields to capture, track and report on the unique item information you need. Set custom fields to accept certain formats such as date, phone number, or select from list to reduce data input errors and improve the quality of your data output. Plus use advanced filtering and sorting to run reports on the custom field information you care about.

Create Bills of Materials to Track Costs and Components
Create Bills of Materials ("BOMs") or "kits" to track the costs and inventory with the Build Assemblies feature and track assembled products more accurately. Include both material and non-material costs - such as labor and overhead — and see how many finished goods you can build based on your current inventory. As you build finished goods, Enterprise Solutions automatically deducts component items from your inventory and alerts you when it’s time to re-order, or when there aren’t enough components for an assembly.

Unit of Measure Conversion
You may buy the same item in one unit of measure, stock it in another, and sell it in yet another. Enterprise Solutions can automate the conversion from one unit of measure to another as the item moves through your business, helping you avoid costly mistakes. With a click, you can instantly convert from cases to pallets, or whatever units of measure you define. The correct units are then printed on invoices, purchase orders, sales orders, pick lists, and packing slips to help streamline your workflows and enable you to easily buy and sell products in precisely the way your vendors and customers prefer.

Available to Promise
The Available to Promise feature puts important inventory data on one simple screen. Easily drill down to see details on which customers have ordered the product, or view open purchase orders that have been placed with vendors.

Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet
The Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet shows all your open sales orders on one simple screen. Sort open sales orders by date, by shippable dollar amount, or by customer with one click. Customize whether you want to allow partial shipments, or only complete orders. Select the orders you want to ship, then instantly batch print pick lists, packing slips, or invoices.

Backorder Tracking
Easily see backordered items on purchase orders, invoices and other sales forms. Enterprise Solutions makes it easy to know exactly what still needs to be shipped and what you are still expecting from vendors.

Easy and Convenient Shipping
Ship faster with fewer errors and schedule pickups and track shipments - directly from Enterprise Solutions. Use the customer address information on your sales receipts or invoices to pre-fill FedEx and UPS shipping labels, complete with tracking numbers and bar codes.10 Multi-parcel shipping lets you easily print labels and ship multiple packages from single shipment orders. Enterprise Solutions also offers thermal printer support (Zebra 2844)

Process Returns and Non-standard Goods
Print custom–designed forms to improve your in–shop processes for handling returns, non–conforming and damaged goods, and physical inventory counts. With tools like End–to–end Returned Materials Authorization (RMA) tracking, Non-conforming Materials Worksheet, and Damaged Goods Log can help you make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Advanced Inventory

Solve your business’s complex inventory needs with the Advanced Inventory add-on for QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 11.0. It’s built right inside QuickBooks with the same user interface.

Know the Value and Quantity of Inventory in Multiple Locations
For each location, you can see how many items are on hand, on sales order, on purchase order, and your reorder point... and QuickBooks will automatically calculate which items you need to restock.

Transfer Inventory from One Location to Another
If one location is running low on inventory, you can transfer stock from another location to meet demand without delay.

Flexibility to Set Up Various Types of Locations
In addition to tracking inventory in multiple warehouses, you can track it in different staging areas within a single warehouse, on service trucks, and on consignment. You can even track imported goods ‘on the water.

Track Your Inventory Data in One Place
Advanced Inventory is built right inside Enterprise Solutions with the same user interface, so you don't have to install, learn and use separate software. Your inventory data is tracked automatically from your QuickBooks invoices, sales orders and purchase orders.

Sales & Customers

Track Hundreds of Thousands of Customers
Give your business room to grow with the capacity to add and track hundreds of thousands of customers, vendors and employees. That’s more than six times the capacity of any other QuickBooks product.

Find Key Customer Information Instantly
The Customer Center puts all your important customer details in one simple screen. See all your customers, exactly what they owe, and view the entire transaction history (estimates, invoices, received payments, and more). Filter by active customers, open balance or invoice, received payments, or create a custom filter.

Quickly Prioritize Customers with the Customer Snapshot
The Customer Snapshot gives you a consolidated view so you can assess at a glance each customer's purchase history, outstanding balance, and other key metrics so you can make timely decisions on customer requests.

Rapidly Add or Edit Multiple Customers
Save time by entering and editing your customer information in bulk from one spreadsheet view. You can even copy and paste data from other spreadsheets.

Track Unique Information with Custom Fields
Use custom fields to capture, track and report on the unique customer information you need. Set custom fields to accept certain formats such as date, phone number, or select from list to reduce data input errors and improve the quality of your data output. Plus use advanced filtering and sorting to run reports on the custom field information you care about.

Send Estimates, Invoices or Sales Orders
Create estimates, invoices and sales orders in seconds and email them to your customers right from Enterprise Solutions. Enterprise Solutions simplifies your workflow. You can duplicate and edit previous estimates to save time over creating new ones from scratch. You can instantly turn estimates into invoices and convert sales orders into purchase orders or work orders for your production floor.

Invoice Many Customers at Once with Batch Invoicing
When you are invoicing many customers for the same service, you'll be able to save the time previously spent on creating individual invoices by using QuickBooks' new batch invoicing capabilities.

Give Your Sales Forms a Distinctive Identity
Ensure that your invoices and other forms get the attention they deserve. Access FREE professional designs that you can customize for your business. Create a distinctive look and apply it across all your invoices, statements and other forms all at once.

Use Foreign Currencies on Sales Transactions
Apply and calculate foreign currencies automatically on sales transactions, such as sales orders and invoices, so you can do business with your international customers more easily.

Set Custom Pricing and Billing Levels
Fine-tune your pricing structure for up to 100 types of customers or programs. Link a price level to any customer and Enterprise Solutions automatically applies the correct discount to estimates and invoices.

Service related businesses will benefit from the ability to bill out employees at different rates. You can vary rates by client and service, for even more flexibility. After you’ve set up your rate levels, Enterprise Solutions applies the right rates to estimates and invoices automatically.

Manage Multiple Customer Addresses
Store multiple email addresses and an unlimited number of shipping addresses per customer to make tasks like shipping and invoicing easier than ever before. You can set company–wide default “copy” (cc) and “blind copy” (bcc) email addresses to pre–populate for each customer.

Apply Payments and Calculate Sales Tax
Enterprise Solutions automatically tracks every invoice until it’s paid. Payments and credits can be applied to one invoice or several in a few simple steps. Track and apply sales tax and non–taxable sales automatically on every invoice, sales order and receipt.

Purchasing & Vendors

Track Hundreds of Thousands of Parts or Service Items
Give your business room to grow with the capacity to add and track hundreds of thousands of vendors. That’s more than six times the capacity of any other QuickBooks product.

Find Key Vendor Information Instantly
The Vendor Center puts all your important vendor details in one simple screen. See all your vendors, exactly what balance is owed them, and view your entire transactions history (bills, checks, purchase orders, and more). Filter by active vendors, open balance, bills or checks, or create a custom filter. Discover how much business you’re doing with each vendor without running separate reports or going to different screens.

Rapidly Add or Edit Multiple Vendors
Save time by entering and editing your vendor information in bulk from one spreadsheet view. You can even copy and paste data from other spreadsheets.

Define Custom Fields to Track Unique Information
Use custom fields to capture, track and report on the unique vendor information you need. Set custom fields to accept certain formats such as date, phone number, or select from list to reduce data input errors and improve the quality of your data output. Plus use advanced filtering and sorting to run reports on the custom field information you care about.

Create and Send Purchase Orders
Create purchase orders in seconds and email them to your vendors right from Enterprise Solutions. Turn any estimate or sales order into a purchase order in just a few clicks without retyping line items or vendor information.

Use Foreign Currencies on Purchasing Transactions
Apply and calculate foreign currencies automatically on purchasing transactions, such as purchase orders, so you can do business with your offshore vendors more easily.

Receive Items and Pay Vendors
Enterprise Solutions automatically tracks every purchase order until the items are received and your vendor is paid. Enter bills when you receive them, set due date reminders, and turn each bill entry into a check with the click of a button.

Track Manufacturer’s Part Number
Reduce ordering errors and avoid the hassle of constantly looking up your vendor’s part number. Store the manufacturer’s part number as part of your item definition, making it easier to re–order inventory.

Easy Setup and Integration with TrueCommerce EDI
Save time while meeting customer requirements with TrueCommerce EDI, the comprehensive Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for Enterprise Solutions. EDI is the most widely-used form of business-to-business electronic commerce to automate order processing.

TrueCommerce EDI setup and integration within Enterprise Solutions is easy and reliable. TrueCommerce EDI includes access to free, unlimited phone support from knowledgeable EDI professionals.

TrueCommernce EDI software (a $795 value) is included with Enterprise Solutions. Additional fees apply for the ongoing monthly subscription for EDI transactions.

Payroll & Employees

Find Key Employee Information Instantly
The Employee Center puts all your important employee details in one simple screen. And with a QuickBooks Payroll subscription, you can pay employees, pay tax liabilities, fill out important tax forms, and track payroll expenses - all from a single, at-a-glance screen.

Every time you process your payroll using QuickBooks, all your information is updated in your company file, automatically. The guided, step-by-step setup will walk you through the set up process with examples that explain everything in simple terms.

Payroll Processing Including Direct Deposit
Enterprise Solutions’ easy-to-use, integrated payroll tools offer several ways to streamline the payroll process from setting up new employees to automating payroll. Take advantage of these tools with a QuickBooks Payroll Subscription and you will also have access to Direct Deposit, a feature that will save you the trouble of printing paychecks. With Direct Deposit, Enterprise Solutions lets you deposit employees’ pay directly into their bank account(s).19

The built-in payroll features work together with a variety of QuickBooks Payroll Services updated with state forms and workers compensation tracking to help ensure accurate deductions, manage your payroll tax payments, and more.

Track Employee or Contractor Time
QuickBooks Time Tracker (sold separately) is the fastest way to track and record billable time in Enterprise Solutions. Your employees or contractors enter their hours from anywhere using a Time Tracker timesheet on the Web. Easily download submitted online timesheets right into Enterprise Solutions in one click.

Centralized and Secure Employee Information Tracking
Protect your company against lawsuits by centralizing your employee information, and documenting your compliances. Our Employee Organizer puts it all at your fingertips. Easily track employee information by entering employment data, emergency contacts, current and historical compensation, and payroll status, and personal information into Enterprise Solutions.

Comprehensive Employee Management Reports
See employee information at–a–glance in convenient reports you can print. Enter employee hours by day or week and Enterprise Solutions automatically tracks job costs as you pay job-related bills and labor. Enterprise Solutions then sends totals directly to paychecks and job–costing reports to help you make better business decisions.

Employer Compliance Guidelines
Enterprise Solutions provides built-in legal documentation and requirements as well as compliance tips for employment-related issues, such as recruiting, hiring, compensation, benefits, employee relations, and termination.

Employment Forms, Letters and Templates
Print a variety of state and federal forms, or employee management forms. Adapt templates for legally compliant employment-related letters and other documents. Read tips on interviewing, giving evaluation reviews, and more.

Security & Productivity Tools

Add Up to 30 Users
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions supports from 5 to up to 30 simultaneous users, scaling with your business as it grows. Adding more users after your initial purchase is fast and easy. Simply purchase the additional licenses, install the software on their PC and point them to your Enterprise Solutions company file.

Expanded User Controls
Give your employees access to the information and activities they need to do their jobs, without exposing your data to accidental or intentional misuse. Allow or restrict your users to access over 115 individual reports, bank accounts, lists and activities in Enterprise Solutions.

Always-On Audit Trail
The always-on Audit Trail greatly reduces the time spent investigating changes to your Enterprise Solutions files since the last time you reviewed them. The Audit Trail can help protect you against employee fraud and detect employee errors because it records transactions that are being entered, edited or deleted from the system with no impact on Enterprise Solutions’ performance.

Work in Two Company Files at the Same Time
Save time switching between QuickBooks files by working in two instances of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions at the same time.

Set Up Users Quickly with Predefined Roles
Enterprise Solutions includes 13 predefined user roles to help you set up new users quickly. Each predefined role provides access to the activities and reports typically needed by users in that role. You can easily copy and edit a predefined role to better meet your users' unique needs, and assign any role to any user or apply multiple roles to a single user.

Predefined roles include: Accountant, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Banking, Finance, Full Access, Inventory, Payroll Manager, Payroll Processor, Purchasing, Sales, Time Tracking, and View-only.

Connect Remote Workers and Locations
Unify remote workers and satellite offices with a high-performance, "real-time" link to your QuickBooks data. Enterprise Solutions works with Remote Desktop Services to allow password-protected access by authorized users.12 Remote users get top performance because processing takes place on your server, not their PC. From the moment they log on, they’re valuable members of the team - whether they’re in the main office or satellite office, onsite or offsite.

Perform More Tasks in Multi-User Mode
Enterprise Solutions allow you to adjust inventory, delete list items, change sales tax rates, and back up your company file while in Multi-User Mode so you can complete these tasks without disrupting other users.

Run Enterprise Solutions Faster with Remote Desktop Services
Run and use Enterprise Solutions more quickly with Remote Desktop Services. By installing your software on a terminal server versus multiple client computers, you can also save money on IT related cost. Remote users get top performance because processing takes place on your server, not their PC. From the moment they log on, they’re valuable members of the team - whether they’re in the main office or satellite office, onsite or offsite. Read our Remote Desktop Services white paper for more information.

Fully Integrated Document Management
Organize your important business documents in one place. Document Management lets you attach documents – electronic or scanned files – to any QuickBooks customer, vendor, employee, account or transaction. Because your documents are backed up online (up to about 1,000 2-page PDFs), they are easy to share with your accountant and employees, and accessible from any Internet connection. You can even scan documents right in QuickBooks.

QuickBooks Instant Messenger
Having trouble communicating with remote workers about what you need to do in Enterprise Solutions? Want to perform remote actions but your co-workers aren’t at their desk? QuickBooks Instant Messenger lets you chat directly with remote users and perform actions, such as logging them out, even when they are not at their computer.

Flexible Administrative Controls
You can set up your accountant to be the QuickBooks Administrator with sole access to the accounting functions that impact your data integrity, such as opening and closing the books. Your accountant can then delegate lower level functions, such as setting up new users and company preferences, to your in-house administrator.

System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements

• At least 2.0GHz processor for a client
• At least 2.0GHz processor for a server
• At least 1GB RAM (more strongly recommended as file size increases) for a client
• At least 1GB RAM (more strongly recommended as file size increases) for a server
• At least 2.5 GB of disk space (plus additional space for company files) for a client
• At least 2.5 GB of disk space (plus additional space for company files) for a server

Disk Space Requirements for Additional Software

• 250MB for Microsoft .NET 3.5 Runtime, provided on the QuickBooks CD
• 9MB for the QuickBooks Timer

Additional Hardware and Software Requirements

• Operating System: Windows 7 (all editions except Starter and Basic), Windows Vista (w/UAC on), or Windows XP (SP2 or later)
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• Optimized for 1024x768 screen resolution or higher (1024x768 or higher is required)

Windows File Server Requirements
Microsoft® Windows 7 (all editions except Starter and Basic), Windows XP (SP2 or later strongly recommended), Windows Vista (w/UAC on), Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Small Business Server 2008.

Linux File Server Requirements
Run the QuickBooks Database Server on Linux. Store your QuickBooks data on a Linux server and use QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions running on your Windows desktop client to access that data. You can utilize the server operating system of your choice to meet the needs of your business environment.38

Linux is supported for Enterprise Solutions 11.0 (openSUSE 11.2, fedora 12 and RedHat Enterprise 5.4), Enterprise Solutions 10.0 (openSUSE 11 and fedora 11), and Enterprise Solutions 9.0, 8.0 and 7.0 (openSUSE 10, fedora 10, and Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition).