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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: October 30, 2006
- Total Downloads: 451,252
- Downloads last week: 2,418
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 98 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
With Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007, the software behemoth from Seattle proves it's capable of producing high-quality, free software for the masses. Beneath the clean layout, big icons, and point-and-click interface sits a foundation of solid business features that can benefit almost any company.
The freeware version covers most imaginable needs a business might have for supportive software. Charge customers' credit cards or manage your bank accounts, payroll, and vendors. You can create and log invoices, quotes, cash sales, and even refunds. Beyond that, the program provides for the modern business, featuring built-in PayPal functionality--an absolute necessity for e-commerce--and a built-in connection to your Equifax profile for looking up credit profiles. There's also a letter-writing function with modifiable templates, simplifying your communication with clients and vendor.
The paid version provides more features, such as multiple user profiles, international currency support, regional transaction tracking, and a fixed asset manager.
Since Office Accounting Express is part of the Microsoft Office suite, it includes contact-list integration with Outlook. Unfortunately, the installation is enormous and time-consuming, and it surreptitiously installs Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Secret installations do not instill confidence. The "advanced options" screen during the install process allows users to choose different database managers, if they have alternatives, but the choice isn't explicitly clear.
Overall, Office Accounting Express is an incredible piece of software for business managers. Comprehensive and obviously affordable, Office Accounting Express is hard to beat for business-software value.
Publisher's description
From Microsoft :Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 is an essential tool for managing your business finances. Whether you're a small or home-based business, you can use this accounting program to make pen and paper-based tasks a thing of the past. With the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office, Office Accounting Express 2007 helps you get organized, save time and sell online.
You only need to enter data once so you can save time managing everyday financial tasks. All of your customer and financial information is stored in one place so that you can have a complete view of your business. Office Accounting Express 2007 also gives you the tools you need to reach out to millions of potential customers by taking your business online from simplifying sales using eBay to helping making sure that you get paid faster. Third party service required and fees apply for online sales component.
Note: At this time, Office Accounting is designed for US small businesses only, and does not support local requirements of countries outside the US.
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User reviews of Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 98 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
"Great Software and Free, but used 1GB Space at hard drive"
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16 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Version: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
"Powerful software for my eBay business"
Pros: It's free! Very complete - does everything other accounting software does: invoices, expenses, banking...
Simple to get started and use. Nice integration with Word and Excel. Lets me list my products on EBay, download orders and create invoices.
Cons: (I have only been using this for a few hours and haven't found any cons yet)
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13 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
"It's a Must Download for any Small Business"
Pros: I really like the user interface. It is simple and very intuitive. The product has all the features you expect in an accounting product, like create quotes and invoices, record expenses, process credit card payments, online banking, and even payroll. One of the features I find very compelling is PayPal. I can send an email using Outlook and provide a PayPal payment option. My customers can now pay me with PayPal or they can enter credit card information and PayPal automatically process the transaction. This is a must see feature.
Cons: It took a while to download but it was worth the wait.
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
"Wow - an amazing gift from Microsoft all small businesses will benefit from"
Pros: SBA 2006 is a great product but Office Accounting 2007 just blows me away with great ease of use. I can get speed of use by modifying the entry forms exactly like I want them. I can handle all my main business scenarios with a few clicks and the product is stuffed with intelligence that helps me not make mistakes. If you have a small business you should definately download this gift from Microsoft and try it out!
Cons: The slow download was definately worth waiting for.
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
"Free accounting software? yes please!"
Pros: I have (obviously) not used the program for long but it actually does everything I really need. I just needed an easy way of sending out invoices to my customers in a nice format (I use it with my Word 2003) and keeping a record of them. Later I may look into tracking my bills in the program, and I may start accepting credit cards...
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