New in QuickBooks Desktop Premier 2020
Automatic Payment Reminders:
Get paid faster by automatically reminding customers when payments are due.
Add PO Numbers to Emails:
Facilitate quicker payments by enabling customers to easily search for invoice emails by PO numbers.
Combine Multiple Invoices in One Email:
Simplify customer payment processing by consolidating multiple invoices into just one email.
Easier to Read Customer Reports:
Hide columns to see simple, easy to read customer totals in reports with jobs & classes.
QuickBooks Premier – General Business
Easily track sales results
Track sales accurately and flexibly with the Sales Summary Form. Enter total payments and taxable/non-taxable sales for the day, week, or any time period you choose.
Stay on top of inventory and costs
Easily track inventory and set reorder points.
Run a profit and loss report
Easily compare one month’s profit and loss against another.
QuickBooks Premier – Contractor Edition
Easily track sales results
Track sales accurately and flexibly with the Sales Summary Form. Enter total payments and taxable/non-taxable sales for the day, week, or any time period you choose.
Stay on top of inventory and costs
Easily track inventory and set reorder points.
Run a profit and loss report
Easily compare one month’s profit and loss against another.
QuickBooks Premier – Professional Services Edition
Track unbilled time and expenses
See all clients with unbilled time and expenses by employee, project, client or service on a single screen. Easily send an invoice in just a few clicks.
Set different billing rates
by employee, client, and service
Pay and get paid the right amount by quickly and easily setting different billing rates.
Analyze profitability
by project and client
Reports like Billed vs. Proposal by Project, Cost-to-Complete by Job, and Job Costs by Job and Vendor help you stay on top of which projects are most profitable.
QuickBooks Premier – NonProfit Edition
Easily track sales results
Track sales accurately and flexibly with the Sales Summary Form. Enter total payments and taxable/non-taxable sales for the day, week, or any time period you choose.
Stay on top of inventory and costs
Easily track inventory and set reorder points.
Run a profit and loss report
Easily compare one month’s profit and loss against another.
QuickBooks Premier – Manufacturing and Wholesale Edition
Create end-of-year donation statements
See who your biggest donors are and track their contributions.
Create Form 990
(Statement of Functional Expenses)
Identify your expenses for presentation to your board, major donors, and the IRS.
Run donor contribution
summary reports
Track each donor’s contribution total as needed.
QuickBooks Premier – Retail Edition
Easily track sales results
Track sales accurately and flexibly with the Sales Summary Form. Enter total payments and taxable/non-taxable sales for the day, week, or any time period you choose.
Stay on top of inventory and costs
Easily track inventory and set reorder points.
Run a profit and loss report
Easily compare one month’s profit and loss against another.
Frequently Asked Questions
QuickBooks Desktop Premier is a software license supported for 3 years. After the license term expires, it will no longer support services like payroll, payments, bank feeds, security patches or feature updates.
QuickBooks Desktop Premier Plus is priced as an annual subscription fee. It includes everything in Desktop Premier, with additional services including unlimited support, security updates, new feature upgrades, and data backups, when available.
You can transfer data into QuickBooks Desktop Premier from select versions of Quicken, Microsoft Excel, Office 365, and QuickBooks Mac. You can e-mail estimates, invoices and other forms with Microsoft Outlook 2010 SP2-2016, Microsoft Outlook with Office 365, Gmail™, Outlook.com®, and other SMTP-supporting e-mail clients. You can also integrate data from QuickBooks POS 12.0 or 18.0 with QuickBooks Desktop Premier. Integration with Shopify, Square, and other applications requires remote hosting subscription or QuickBooks Online.
Absolutely Yes! Technical support is included (issues such as installation). Unlimited customer support (usage support such as how to generate reports, etc) is included with a Desktop Pro Plus subscription. If you purchase Desktop Pro, you may add an Annual Care Plan.
Yes. Your license allows for up to five users/computers. 1-user license would allow you to open QuickBooks on 1 computer. 2-user license would allow you to open QuickBooks simultaneously on two computers. 3-user license would allow you to open QuickBooks on three computers simultaneously and so on. If you require more than five users, consider using QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise which is capable of having up to 30 users.
Desktop Pro and Premier each track up to 14,500 customers, vendors, and items, while Enterprise tracks up to 1 million customers, vendors and items. QuickBooks Enterprise also scales up to 30 users with varying roles and permissions.
System Requirements
SYSTEM & BROWSER REQUIREMENTS
- Windows 8.1 Update 1, or Windows 10 update/version supported by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1 or SP2), 2012 (or R2), 2016, or 2019 (Mac users: see QuickBooks Desktop for Mac)
- 2.4 GHz processor
- 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 2.5 GB disk space recommended (additional space required for data files)
- 4x DVD-ROM drive (unless user is downloading from Intuit server)
- Payroll and online features require Internet access (1 Mbps recommended speed)
- Product registration required
- Optimized for 1280×1024 screen resolution or higher. Supports one Workstation Monitor, plus up to 2 extended monitors. Optimized for Default DPI settings
- Browser requirement: Internet Explorer 11 (32-bit)
INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SOFTWARE
- Microsoft Word and Excel integration requires Office 2010 SP2 – 2016, or Office 365 (32 and 64 bit)
- E-mail Estimates, Invoices and other forms with Microsoft Outlook 2010 SP2-2016, Microsoft Outlook with Office 365, Gmail™, and Outlook.com®, other SMTP-supporting e-mail clients. Integration with QuickBooks POS 12.0 or 18.0
- Transfer data from Quicken 2016-2019, QuickBooks Mac 2016-2020 and Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2, 2013, 2016, Office 365 (32 and 64 bit)