Intuit, the software provider of this software, offers numerous popular versions of QuickBooks including an online version, Pro, Premier, Enterprise and a version for Macs as well as retail and POS versions. They have been in the billing and invoice software business for quite some time and have certainly earned their industry reputation. We looked at Simple Start since it is the first level of QuickBooks intended for small businesses.This TopTen Reviews Gold Award winning program can handle all basic needs easily; it can create custom invoices, accept payments and keep track of customers. It also includes some good bonuses such as data backup, tax tools and a payroll module. You can easily import your current business data from Excel, and they offer smooth upgrades from Simple Start should you want to move up to QuickBooks Pro later. Intuit has really made a point of making conversions for their new customers and their existing customers as easy as possible.

Invoicing

With this billing and invoice software you can easily create professional looking invoices fast. It comes with templates and you can easily upload your logo and alter fonts, color, column widths, header information, footer content and more. You can also choose which items you want to show up on the screen and which items you want printed. For example, you may want to see your notes on the screen but you do not want them printed on the customer’s copy.They also have a tool for creating custom invoices from scratch or using templates that you can alter. They have six pages of background options available as well as fonts ranging from Arial to Wingdings and a variety of grid styles and colors. You can even configure them to print to be compatible with windowed envelopes so you do not have to print shipping labels.Invoices can be emailed directly through the program or they can be saved as PDF files. You can also put numerous invoices together for batch printing. Intuit also allows you to store up to 100MG of data on their servers for free. You just simply click “attach” in the invoice module and it will back up your invoice to their servers as a PDF file – up to 1, 000 two-page PDFs for free.