Can Your QuickBooks Do This?

Business Wire,  Feb 5, 2008  

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QReportBuilder from Alpha Software unleashes the information trapped inside QuickBooks, giving users unprecedented ability to understand and capitalize on business data. It's the most important product for QuickBooks users since QuickBooks itself.

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BURLINGTON, Mass. -- The day QuickBooks users have been waiting for has arrived! For years, owners of Intuit's QuickBooks, the world's most popular business accounting package, have wished for a better reporting engine--one that worked with live data, and had a library of customizable reports. But instead, to get a custom report, they had to manually export their QuickBooks data to Excel, and then design a spreadsheet around it. The next time they needed the report, they had to export their data (again!), and recreate the spreadsheet from scratch. And the resulting reports? Boring wastelands of spreadsheet cells populated with outdated data.

Multiply this time consuming, error-prone process for every report a business needs, and you have a prescription for inefficiency--exactly the problem QuickBooks is supposed to alleviate. That inefficiency ends today, with the introduction of QReportBuilder, the first reporting engine designed expressly for QuickBooks. Built by Alpha Software using the Alpha Five Version 8 Reporting Engine and FLEXquarters' QODBC driver, the $299.00 QReportBuilder produces the most sophisticated business reports QuickBooks users have ever seen. With it, they'll gain unprecedented insight into the financial dynamics that drive their business to better understand customer purchasing behaviors and histories, rapidly capitalize on trends, head off potential problems, and seize opportunities they'd otherwise miss.

"QuickBooks users are desperate for more highly evolved reporting," says Richard Rabins, Co-Chairman of Alpha Software, Inc. "QuickBooks is a fantastic tool for businesses to manage their day-to-day tasks, such as order entry, payables, receivables, and payroll. But its built-in reporting only covers the basics. QReportBuilder gives QuickBooks users a professional-grade reporting engine that kicks out hundreds of sophisticated reports on demand, works with live up-to-the-minute data, and unlocks the value in their QuickBooks data."

With a few clicks, QReportBuilder generates the live data output business leaders want from QuickBooks, in the format they need. Over 120 of QuickBooks' canned reports are available to combine, modify, extend, or integrate to produce everything from custom commission reports; to sales and profitability analysis by region, product, or salesperson; to year-by-year comparisons of key business metrics; and more. When the built-in reports aren't exactly what the doctor ordered, QReportBuilder's report editor provides tools to custom design any report from scratch, using familiar Excel-style formulas for totals, subtotals, and groupings. Graphics (such as logos) are easy to add, as are highlighted areas, underlines, font styles, and other visual polish. And drag+drop visual components give users complete control over a report's design and functionality.

Within minutes of installing QReportBuilder, users have dozens of customizable reports at their fingertips. And because they're generated in real-time, with a live connection to the QuickBooks database, users get up-to-the-second business intelligence that's simply not available any other way. Can your QuickBooks do THIS?

* Average days it takes customers to pay (DSO)

* Catalogs with images and descriptions

* Commission on margins for each product sold

* Commissions on paid invoices

* Customers who have not purchased in the last [n] days

* Customers who purchased certain item(s) in the past, and custom mailings notifying them about new or related products

* Inventory profit report with margins or markups

* Inventory turns by item

* Invoice payment history

* Invoice with statement (combo invoice with statement at bottom)

* Invoices and statements, with unlimited customization

* Job cost reports (estimated, actual, billed, collected, contractor costs, employee costs, etc.)

* Multi-company sales comparison reports

* Personalized mail-merge offers to customers who have not purchased in [n] days

* Reports with data captured from external sources, such as Excel (e.g., accounts receivable report by customer, including credit information stored in Excel)

* Reports with data captured from two separate QuickBooks databases

* Sales and Quantity reports by product and region for the last 36 months

* Sales by city, state, region, salesperson, item, customer, etc.

* and dozens more

QReportBuilder can also combine QuickBooks data with external sources (such as Excel and Access) to create integrated business intelligence reports. And QuickBooks consultants can finally produce all the reports their clients want quickly and economically, avoiding many hours of custom programming. Best of all, once a report is designed, users can save it and reuse it again and again, with data that's always fresh, live, and up to date.