The recently released Quickbooks 2011 has some great new features added to last year’s edition. Here’s a brief summary of what’s new in Quickbooks 2011:
Simplified Set-up – QuickStart Center makes it even easier to get started setting up a new company in Quickbooks, allowing you to add contacts from Outlook or items and services from Excel
Import Contact Lists – You can now import customers & vendors from your contact lists in Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and others.
Search Function – Much more powerful than Quickbooks Find tool, this new function now offers a comprehensive search throughout Quickbooks contacts lists and transaction details.
Right hand Panel for Invoices & Bills – When you create a bill or invoice, Quickbooks now pulls up a panel on the right side with all pertinent info for that particular vendor or customer.
Balance Sheet by Class – Previously limited to the Profit & Loss Statement, Quickbooks 2011 now allows you to classify assets & liabilities on your Balance Sheet.
Batch Invoicing – Useful when you have to create multiple invoices, you can now create a single invoice & then duplicate it for a group of customers.
Email Quickbooks invoices using your Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or other 3rd party email accounts.
New Customer Collection Center makes it much easier to perform collection tasks and improve your cash flow.
These new features have all been added since Quickbooks 2010. If you are using an earlier version of Quickbooks, there are many other features, added to previous versions (Quickbooks 2009 & 2010) that might be of interest, as well. For a comparison list of features added over the last 3 annual versions of Quickbooks, click on this Intuit page:
http://quickbooks.intuit.com/pro/whats-new/
