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Editorial Review
Tired of spending countless hours manually tracking your sales and expenses or setting up a spreadsheet to electronically monitor your finances? Bookkeeper 2008 is the solution for you. It provides you with the accounting functionality you need to easily manage your business finances at a fraction of the cost. From check writing, payroll and credit card processing, to purchase orders, billing, invoicing, inventory control, and reporting, Bookkeeper eliminates the hassles of day-to-day bookkeeping and frees up your valuable time so you can focus on growing your business. With Bookkeeper you can easily manage key accounting tasks from one screen, write and print checks, create purchase orders, manage inventory, process payroll in minutes, calculate earnings and deductions, create invoices and estimates, accept credit cards or ATM/debit cards, and analyze your business with over 115 custom reports. Bookkeeper lets you set up your information fast with the Start-Up Wizard and access your data easily with the new and intuitive user interface. Easily write and print checks. Simply select the bills you want to pay – individually or in batches. Bookkeeper will automatically fill out the checks for you and even make partial payments. The easy-to-use reconciliation wizard lets you reconcile your bank statement quickly. Impress your clients and improve your cash flow with professional invoices and estimates. Process payroll in minutes. Calculate earnings, deductions, write and print your checks, and update your bank balances every pay period. Bookkeeper lets you pay employees with flexible pay periods, handle salary, hourly, and contracted personnel, print W-2s and 941 quarterly reports, and automatically calculate federal, social security, Medicare and state deductions. Easily generate purchase orders. Control inventory levels of products, goods, and supplies. Track quantity on hand, supplier of item, and more.
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Customer Reviews

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

2008-04-03
I realize that my review is not about this product, but I think it is relevant to potential purchasers of Avanquest products. I do not know anything about this particular program, but have had considerable difficulty with Avanquest as detailed below. I think it would be exceptionally foolish to trust any business' data to this product given the terrible technical support.

I purchased My Ultimate Organizer 7.0 via download and subsequent key.

I am not making this up - the product displayed a message in Serbo-Croatian telling me the key had expired.

Four hours later with Technical Support and the problem is still not resolved (despite erasing the program, reinstalling, trying different keys, searching the Windows Registry, etc). It takes a full hour on hold to get a technical support representative and at the conclusion of the last session, I was told to contact Customer Service for a CD copy in the hopes that that would resolve the issue. Now Customer Service tells me Technical Support must send me the copy, although Technical Support says otherwise. I am out $30 for a program that is at this point, totally useless, and left adrift by Avanquest who has my money and refuses to help me.

I would purchase Avanquest products with extreme caution. If you have a Technical Support issue, you will have to wait a minimum of 60 minutes on hold (no 800 number), and then get fairly substandard service after that.

Great Software...... However!!!

2008-04-02
The software is awesome for payroll and basic invoicing, however, if you have any questions about it or problems, you might as well throw it away and get something else. I needed to import tax tables and did not get my follow up email with the .exe file required to install the tables. So I called tech support... 1st call - waited on hold for 10 minutes, second call - waited 40 min, third time - I called the product ordering line, finally talked to a real person, thought I was getting somewhere, they transferred me to the same line I was on before, waited 20 min, said forget them, I finally found a site where I could login and get the email with the .exe file resent. But I love the software. it works great. Just dont expect any help from the company outside of basic faq's on their website.

Still a great small business accounting software

2008-03-17
I've been using Bookkeeper since its inception and it continues to be a solid small business accounting product. The features you get for the price are still a better deal QuickBooks or Peachtree.

This latest release contains an improved interface and the ability to handle credit card swiping. New graphical reports are also a nice improvement.

For bill paying, I can track my payments made by check, credit/debit card and cash as well as tracking cash through ATM transactions. For sales, I can create several types of invoices that include payment history and aging. I can even email invoices to my customers. And with inventory I can track purchase orders and all transactions made against my inventory items. Payroll is a great bargain and handles fed, state and local taxes.

There are well over 100 customizable reports plus tax forms. The reports can be exported to Excel or text files and even saved as PDF files. I'm not sure what the other reviewer was referring to about not having inventory reports when there are half a dozen inventory reports showing all items and what's on hand, sales of items by customer and transactions per item. There is also an inventory worksheet to use when conducting inventory audits.

With all these features plus many others I didn't mention, Bookkeeper continues to be a perfect fit for small businesses.

Excellent accounting software

2008-02-25
I really like this product. It is easy to learn, and it has many more features than I would expect from a product in this price range. It allows me to track accounts payable and accounts receivable, it tracks inventory, and it prints invoices, purchase orders, and checks. It also allows me to process credit cards directly from the program. Payroll can handle hourly, salary, and bonuses. It has a good set of detailed reports, and it has the year end tax forms I need.

It is really nice to finally find good software that doesn't break the bank. It lets me do all of the things I need to do and I don't need to take a class to understand how to use it.

Bookkeeper

2008-02-14
I was not extremely pleased with the product. It keeps up with your inventory but I had problems doing a report to show what I had in stock. I have since ordered Peachtree Pro and am extremely pleased with this one. I have used Peachtree before.