Why I buy this one ?
- One year of free unlimited support.
- Integrates fully with Microsoft Office 2003 Editions.
- Designed to be installed in-house by the small business itself.
- Create quotes, invoices, and purchase orders easily; manage inventory; track payroll and timesheets; forecast cash flow; and more.
- With more than 60 lists and reports that can easily be customized, you can forecast and track cash flow, inventory, and sales.

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What our customer's say!

"Great accounting software", Really like this product I have since upgraded to 2007 because this will not work with windows vista! Microsoft did the upgrade with no extra charge.

"Clunky Software", I had high hopes for Microsoft's SBA program, however, it does not stack up to QuickBooks.

Cons:
- Unable to open file using a file server. For some strange reason, it requires you to have Microsoft's SQL (database) server installed in order to have it served through a file server. This serves as a limitation because it forces you to purchase another Microsoft license. In a small business environment, a user should be able to open their books through any file server.

- Clunky. Another irritating aspect is that it opens a different program window on the task bar for each task that you open. If you multi-task, you will see many icons on your task bar, instead of managing your windows within the program under the menu bar. Navigation is also clunky where it feels like Outlook.

- Reports are limited. It may be that I have not figured it out yet (see above "clunky"), but I'm unable to find a way to easily customize my reports. It forces you to print detailed reconciliation reports (with many pages), instead of a summary.

- CTRL-F (Find). How hard is it to implement CTRL-F and be able to pull up a search box? Transactions are hard to find with SBA. As your book grows, an easily accessible search box is needed to find a check, invoice, and other transactions.

Pros: A QuickBooks alternative.

If you're a small business owner, it's best that you stick with QuickBooks. It's almost a standard for micro/small businesses.

"It's not what it seems", I was told it was the same as Quick books! but for a fration of the price!
Theres no such thing as a good deal!
The only way to get this work right is to buy the rest of the software and then im sure it would be fine but then your paying more than Quick Books..
Its only a module!


"Easy to use home office accounting package.", I used QuickBooks and Quicken in the past and decided to try Microsoft Small Business Accounting and found it much easier to use. The flow is very intuitive with customization of invoicing and purchase orders being very easy with standard Microsoft Office products. I do recommend that the user read the manual first, it does help significantly. The most beneficial aspect of the software was the ability to do journal entries to correct items entered in the graphical interface. If all else fails simply do an accounting entry in the journal to correct things. Hats off to Microsoft on this one, it works well, is easy to use, and integrates with Microsoft Office.

"OK IF YOU DON'T NEED PAYROLL SERVICE", Though I received two free copies with some hardware, I will not be using Microsoft SBA because it's payroll services are really bad. If you want to get payroll taxes, etc. to do your employee's checks, you can sign up for a service, but the service is an online company for which data is EXCHANGED with SBA. Internet always required, multiple levels of passwords, what data is going out ? To avoid this you can find the tax rates yourself and use Excel to calculate payrolls and then EXCHANGE DATA with SBA. This takes about 4-5 times as much effort as Quickbooks' automatic DOWNLOADS and, if you go with the online company, costs three times as much as does Quickbooks' equivalent service. Too bad that SBA has this fatal flaw because I really liked the layout and feel of the program.

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"Great small business accounting software - needs more reports", Overall I really like this software and would recommend it. It was easy to install and begin using. You must get Service Pack 2 in order to run manual payroll (if you don't want to connect up with ADP). The backup function is easy to use and very helpful as it prompts you periodically. There appears to be a lot of functionality that I have not yet tapped into. The reports in the software are adequate, but there needs to be many more around payroll and employees. I've not found a report for printing earnings statements or paystubs.

"good value", I bought this for my start up business and did not want to spend the money on quickbooks. I haven't had any major problems with this program other than I was not able to create the ship to address to be different than my own address. (I am a distributor use blind tags on all of my transactions). Yahoo! solutions was helpful. You have to create a word document, then you can edit the ship to address in the word document. This has worked out just fine. I like the front page, it tells me all of my information( sales, outstanding balances, invoices due, open orders etc) right there without having to create several reports.

"Never loaded it due to the negative comments here.", I just hate the way MS offers a viable alternative that does not cut the mustard out of the starting gate. No wonder Gates has billions. He keeps the money for himself rather then plowing back into key launches of product with a perfect track record out the gate.

From the sounds of the comments here it is not worth my time to load this junk and deal with all the hastles possible.

So I will wait till this product gets the needed attention it deserves from MS.

"Warning - This product comes with daily ads", The "feature" that makes me sorry I bought Microsoft SBA is the "Spotlight" -- a bulleted list of text ads that appear on every major screen, and that download new content on every one of those screens, every time you open the program. These text versions of pop-ups slow the application even more than its already-glacial pace (it's a bigger memory hog than Photoshop or Dreamweaver). You have the option to remove this "content", but on only one of the five screens where it appears. It is beyond annoying -- it's as if you brought a box of cereal, and were forced to listen to a commercial every time you wanted to eat some of it.

SBA has its good points - it does a decent job of small business accounting, and it's pretty to look at. The print and online documentation both lack very important basics, such as how to add a logo to an invoice; you have to go to the user community for those. But in my opinion, none of the benefits outweigh the continual, inescapable intrusion of all those ads.

"Ambivalent feelings", I brought this accounting software to use for basic tasks in my business. The general look appears to be similar to quickbooks. I am used to Peachtree, yet I had no difficulty with the basic navigation.
Some pros:
-Invoices and other forms exported straight into Word, so it is extremely easy to customize forms.
-Navigation was clear and straightforward. The program has a very clear and organized look to it.
-I didn't try the form letters, but seeing the way it smoothly integrated with excel and word, they look like they would be very useful.

However...(some pros)...
*Extremely SLOW. I have a solid computer and I am used to everything running quickly. This program took a long time to do anything, especially exporting data and documents.
-I know how to use Word pretty well. Yet, no matter what I tried, I could not get the invoice total to be on the bottom of the page (unless I changed each invoice manually-not an option). There is really only one standard invoice template available (just in different colors), and the invoice total is after the last line item. Therefore, only one line item in the invoice means that the total is in middle of the page and the rest of the page is empty. From all the many styles of invoices I have seen, between bills and sales, I have never seen something that looked this ridiculous.

As a result of these two issues, I returned the CD. I hope that Amazon honors the "30 day money back guarantee" that microsoft advertises on the back of the box...