Peachtree 2010 Premium Accounting

Peachtree by Sage Premium Accounting 2010 is a comprehensive solution that provides premium features like multi-company consolidations, advanced budgeting, serialized inventory, and Crystal Reports 2008¹. It provides a multi-user option²for improved productivity with screen-level access control, plus analysis tools, and 140+ customizable reports and financial statements.

Get Your Numbers Right with Peachtree
Peachtree is based on real, double-entry accounting principles with screen-level security, audit trails, and automatic accounting checks. You get the accuracy and control you need to improve results--and truly understand how your business is performing.

• Accurate and Efficient Accounting
  
  • Invoice customers--by mail or e-mail³
  • Automate purchase orders
  • Pay bills electronically⁴--or print paper checks
  • Track incoming receipts
  • Manage inventory
• Control Your Business Data
  
  • Exclusive Premium Feature: Archive and restore company data
  • Manage data access with screen-level security
  • Run up to 15 checks on your data with the Internal Accounting Review⁵
  • New: See all related transactions using Transaction History
• Manage for Better Results
  
  • Set E-mail Alerts to let you know what requires attention
  • 140+ customizable reports
• Data Security
  • Control user access at screen and module levels
  • Enhanced security for prior period data
  • Audit Trails track user IDs to deter fraud

Accurate Accounting Essentials

• New: Peachtree Business Analytics⁶
  • See how your company is performing compared to the competition
  • Compare key, up-to-date financial trends, such as Total Revenue, Gross Margin %, Days Sales Outstanding, and more
• Financial Analysis Tools
  • View key business metrics at the Business Status Center
  • Review financial ratios like product profit margins and days A/R outstanding
  • Create comparative budgets
• Customizable Reports
  • Accounts Receivable
    • Aged Receivables
    • Customer Sales History
    • Items Sold to Customer
  • Accounts Payable
    • Aged Payables
    • Purchases by Vendor
    • Check Register
  • General Ledger
    • Chart of Accounts
    • General Journal
    • Trial Balance
  • Financial Statements
    • Balance Sheet
    • G/L Account Summary
    • Income Statement
  • Inventory
    • Inventory Stock Status
    • Item Sales History
    • Inventory Profitability
  • And Many More:
    • Payroll
    • Time and Billing
    • Job Costing
• Switch from QuickBooks⁷
  Peachtree includes a detailed conversion utility designed to make it easy to convert your QuickBooks data yourself. The simple wizard format steps you through the process and explains each of your options.

Track Your Results

• Save Time on Routine Transactions
  • New: View the details you need all in one place to better manage and service your customers
  • Stay organized by attaching files related to your Peachtree records
  • New: Store virtually unlimited contacts⁸ for every customer in Peachtree!
• Get a Snapshot of Your Business
  At a glance, the Business Status Center dashboard provides a high-level view of your key business metrics: print data, create a PDF, or e-mail it.
  • View important information from a central location
  • Drill down to detailed information
  • Customize and sort data to suit your needs

Control Your Business

• Business Management
  • Receivables/Collections Tools
  • General Ledger Capabilities
  • Payment Processing
  • Manage Job/Project Costing
  • Inventory Tracking Capabilities
  • Premium Exclusive Feature: Use serialized inventory capability to track warranty claims, recalls, and more
  • Choose LIFO, FIFO, Average, or Specific Unit Costing
• Manage Cash Flow
  Analyze and forecast your expected payments and receipts. Confirm that you have enough cash to meet current and upcoming obligations. Export forecasts to Microsoft Excel.

What's New for 2010
Make informed decisions, experience streamlined processes, and get everyone working together with Peachtree by Sage 2010. With more flexible tools and personalized features than before, Peachtree 2010 helps you improve work flow, internal communications, and collaboration; plus, get enhanced analytical data, provide better customer service, and keep information secure.

• Automatic Backup
  With Peachtree Automatic Backup, you set up backups once and Peachtree does the rest. You can easily arrange for backups to occur regularly; Peachtree doesn't even have to be running to back up safely and securely.
• Employee Management
  Save time and reduce errors by keeping track of your employees' information in Peachtree: hiring data, emergency contacts and performance reviews are just some of the things you can store. Receive alerts for key tasks such as review dates. Everything you need to ensure accuracy is now in one place.
• Password Security
  Increase the security of your company's data with new customizable password options and let your admin see who is logged in at any time. For example, you may choose to set automatic password expirations or block repeat passwords. Customizing your options and letting users change their own passwords helps save time and money.
• Transaction History
  Link to the entire chain of events for customer and vendor transactions at any point of the sales or purchase process. Drill down from a purchase order to the purchase or backwards from an invoice to the sales order. With Peachtree 2010, you can take action more quickly and easily by accessing all the information you need.
• Customer Management Center
  Manage everything you need to know about your customers in one place. From their quotes to inventory shipped, every customer detail is at your fingertips so you can quickly take action. Find customers quickly via their ID or any of their key contact information. Easily export customer information in various formats. This powerful tool lets you better serve your customers or reference needed information in a snap.
• Business Analytics
  See how your company ranks within your industry by using the new company dashboard. Make more informed financial decisions, view up-to-date key financial trends and compare key business information such as Total Revenue, Gross Margin, Days Sales Outstanding, and much more.
• Open Multiple Companies
  Now you'll be able to open multiple companies within Peachtree at the same time without having to re-enter your login information each time you switch. Toggle back and forth between companies easily to complete your work more quickly and efficiently.⁹
• Multiple Contacts
  The new "Contacts" tab in the Customers screen allows you to keep track of virtually unlimited contacts for every customer. Track details about each contact, including a new notes field, phone numbers, and email. If you do business with multiple sites and have multiple employees for your customers, you can now easily keep track of all of them in Peachtree 2010.⁸
• Inventory Management
  Manage your inventory like never before. See what your customers are buying with the new Item Sales History report; search inventory more easily by description and note fields; set Item Class defaults based on your most common inventory types. Save time, increase efficiency, and watch your bottom line grow.
• In-Product Advisor
  Learn the best way to work within Peachtree by leveraging our in-product user tips. These tips will help you discover functions or features that will assist you in learning other areas of the product quicker. The Advisor will assist you in pointing out better ways to accomplish common tasks in the program, in areas such as Sales/Invoicing, Inventory, Vendors, Receipts and General Journal Entries. Set your experience with Peachtree to maximize the effectiveness of assistance you might require, and set the length of time that each message will be displayed.

Disclaimers

¹ Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Server 2000 not supported. The multi-user version comes with one full license and the number of view-only licenses equal to the number of Peachtree licenses you have acquired.
² For multi-user access, you must purchase one single-user box per licensed, named user or one Multi-use Value Pack for up to five licensed, named users. See System Requirements. For greater than 5 licensed, named users visit Peachtree Quantum.
³ Requires Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003 or 2007; Outlook Express 5 or 6; other MAPI compliant e-mail programs.
⁴ Subject to approval and to Sage terms of service. Additional fees, internet access and checking account required.
⁵ Sage is not liable or responsible for any fines or penalties that may result from errors in your company accounting records. The Internal Accounting Review is not intended to uncover all questionable transactions..
⁶ Internet access required. Service is embedded within Peachtree 2010, however is also available for Peachtree 2008 and 2009 products via a separate application download from www.peachtree.com
⁷ Versions 2006 - 2009. Excludes conversion of QuickBooks individual payroll transactions. For additional information on conversion limitations, please visit www.peachtree.com/qb
⁸ There is a maximum of 20 ship to addresses and 1 billing address per customer. Only 2 contacts per customer can be synced with Outlook.
⁹ When opening more than one company, performance is not impacted; however, you will experience reduced product functionality in those companies opened after the first one.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Recommended System Configuration

• 1 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) for single user and 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent) for multiple users
• 512 MB of RAM for single user and 1 GB for multiple users

Minimum System Requirements

• 1 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) for single user and multiple users
• 256 MB of RAM for single user and 512 MB of RAM for multiple users
• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
• 1 GB of disk space for installation
• Internet Explorer 6.0 required; Internet Explorer 7.0 supported
• Microsoft.NET Framework CLR 2.0 (provided on CD). Requires an additional 150 MB.
• At least high color (16-bit) SVGA video; supports 1024x768 resolution with small fonts required
• 2x CD-ROM
• All online features/services require Internet access with at least a 56 Kbps modem

Integration/Compatibility Requirements

• Excel, Outlook, and Word integration requires Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Word 2002, 2003, or 2007
• Outlook Sync supported in Exchange 2000 SP2, 2003, and 2007
• Printers supported by Microsoft Windows XP/Vista
• In-product demos require Macromedia Flash Player
• Adobe Reader 9.0 required
• Crystal Report 2008
  • Peachtree Premium Accounting 2010 or Peachtree Quantum 2010 must be installed
  • Additional 300MB of available disk spacei is required

Multi-User

• Multi-user environments are supported in Peachtree Premium Accounting.
• Multi-user mode is optimized for Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 client-server networks, and Windows XP/Vista peer-to-peer networks.
• A maximum of five licensed named users are allowed. A named user account is granted a license when selected in the user maintenance screen.
• 270 MB of disk space for installation of components on server
  

Other

• Customer registration and acceptance of Sage License Agreement for Peachtree Accounting Software Products

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.