Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) recently announced the availability of QuickBooks Online, the leading business and financial management software for small businesses in India.
QuickBooks helps small businesses stay on top of their finances by providing powerful insights for quick and informed decisions, anywhere and anytime from an internet connected computer or data plan enabled smart phone.
QuickBooks Online lets small businesses easily create localised invoices, pay bills and track expenses. The easy-to-use, cloud-based service needs no professional training and allows the small business owner to take data-driven business decisions on the move.
QuickBooks Online continues Intuit’s longstanding legacy of working with customers to understand their needs and build solutions based on their feedback. It is designed to help small businesses take quick financial business decisions and is optimised for anytime, anywhere usage.
Currently, QuickBooks Online has 1. 3 million users worldwide and is available in 150 countries. The product is developed by Intuit Inc., maker of the popular QuickBooks desktop software and the provider of connected services trusted by more than 60 million customers.
Nikhil Arora, Vice President and Managing Director of Intuit India, said: “In today’s dynamic business environment, it is imperative for small business owners in India to focus on growing their business rather than accounting and bookkeeping. QuickBooks Online was developed to function like their true business manager, providing the right insights to take quick data-driven business decisions.”
“We want to be the end-to-end solutions provider for India’s small business ecosystem. In the next 10 years, we want one in four small businesses in India to use Intuit’s products. With some million broadband-connected small businesses, India offers huge growth potential for cloud-based services.”
Focused on the critical needs of small businesses, QuickBooks Online provides a detailed portrait of the business finances in one place so small businesses can focus on their customers and growing their business. QuickBooks Online helps small businesses:
* Save time on common finance tasks, such as invoice creation, managing sales tax and organising sales receipts.
* Get paid faster with tools to help centralise income forms, such as estimates, invoices and sales receipts, summarise totals for due or past due transaction items, and get tips or alerts to help take immediate action.
* Easily track customers, orders, income and expenses so a small business can always see where it stands.
* Gather tax relevant information in one place to avoid tax-time headaches.
* Use the power of the cloud via a mobile device to stay on top of finances while on the move.
* Obtain in-depth business insights with reporting tools that analyse their business and industry trends to help them move their business forward.
* With password-protected login, firewall protected servers, and the same encryption technology (128 bit SSL) used by the world's top banking institutions, QuickBooks Online has the security elements in place to give you peace of mind."
Small businesses in India that have been using the QuickBooks Online are deriving benefit as they have found it is helping them manage their business finances more efficiently.
“QuickBooks Online has the best features we were looking for; we don’t have to worry about dealing with different currencies or look for data from multiple excel sheets,” said Abhijeet Singh Chauhan, Managing Director, OneTen.in. “QuickBooks Online has become an integral part of our business processes. We are using it today as, to track orders, generate invoices record payments for preparing our taxes and as a customer relationship management tool.”