Brilliant launches QuickBooks 2003 Pro

Softline Brilliant, the sole distributor of accounting software leader Intuit's products in SA, today announced the launch of QuickBooks 2003 Pro.

As part of Softline Brilliant's assurance to providing innovative accounting software solutions, this release forms part of the organisations commitment to ensuring its products are competitive in the market. QuickBooks 2003 Pro contains a number of new features and improvements allowing businesses to manage their finances through increased efficiency and control.

"QuickBooks 2003 Pro Deals with your financial and business management tasks and helping you stay on top of your business finances and is extremely easy to learn and use, even for users without any accounting knowledge, as all processes are automatically compiled within the system," says Tanya Miranda, general manager at Softline Brilliant. "QuickBooks 2003 Pro has all the relevant features to enable organisations to spend less time on their accounting processes and focus more time on running their business," concludes Miranda.

Additional features of QuickBooks 2003 include:

* Inventory management: Provides the ability to buy, sell and stock items in different units of measure. Additionally, QuickBooks automatically adjusts inventory items and completed goods, then tracks them separately, ensuring a continuous overview of stock on hand, assisting with managing inventory accurately and effortlessly.

* Control of business expenses: Besides tracking classified expenses on invoices and purchase forms, there is now a new view unclassified expenses with a new report process.

* Customise forms and processes to meet your company requirements.

* Backup facilities have become increasingly important in the recent years. QuickBooks 2003 Pro offers a back up to CD-ROM, hard drive or floppy disk facility, with the ability to back up existing QuickBooks entries, which then double checks accuracy by automatically comparing back-up file with the original.

QuickBooks 2003 Pro comes in single-user, two-user and three- to five-user options. Businesses can therefore choose the user option best suited to their organisational needs, with the ability to upgrade as their business grows.

To ensure users receive maximum benefits from the product, Softline Brilliant provides a number of service benefits with the purchase of QuickBooks 2003 Pro including 10 free support incidents via telephonic or e-mail from our QuickBooks experts at Softline Brilliant; a 60-day money-back guarantee on the product; and a free, one-year subscription to Brilliant Payroll - a complete, easy and accurate payroll solution with free telephonic and Internet support.

QuickBooks 2003 Pro will be available from incredible Connection and Makro stores countrywide from the end of May 2003.

Additional information:

* Real Language, Question-based help

* Track Cash, Bank and Credit Card Accounts

* Manage Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

* Track all income and expenses by class

* Customisable Invoicing and Statements

* Email Forms (Invoices, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders)

* Customer and Supplier Tracking

* VAT Management

* Data backup Options for files, Archive Data

* Form Printing Options

* Preset Business Reports and Graphs

* Audit Trail

* Simple Upgrade Utility

* Create a Budget

* Microsoft Word and Excel Integration

* Stock Control and Purchase Orders

* Time Tracking, Job Costing, Multiple Estimates

* Multi User (up to 5 users)

* Assemble Inventory Items to create Finished goods

* Buy, Sell and Stock Items to create Finished goods

* Multi-Currency

* Sales Orders and Delivery Notes