Internet
Access

The key benefit of using Realtime for QuickBooks is that it provides direct, real-time Internet access to QuickBooks data from anywhere in the world ...at any hour of the day.

Online
Store

Realtime for QuickBooks includes a template-based online web store, complete with shopping cart and item-search functions. The user simply designates which products within QuickBooks to be featured on the web store, then those products, including price, descriptions and graphic images, are displayed on the web store. Realtime for QuickBooks seamlessly integrates the web store with the QuickBooks database in real-time. Changes, additions or deletions to data in QuickBooks automatically appears in the web store. The software even includes powerful enhancements to QuickBooks, including separate pricing by customer or item; breakdown of products by color and sizes; special discount options; and specific sales tax calculation by zip code. Realtime for QuickBooks delivers standard e-commerce features typically found on million-dollar web sites.

Data
Entry

Using a proprietary interface module and the Intuit SDK 3.0 or higher, Realtime for QuickBooks directly 'reads' and 'writes' to the QuickBooks database. When a web store customer enters an order online, the information is transparently written into QuickBooks simultaneously. Data entry occurs in true real-time.

Payment
Processing

Realtime for QuickBooks can be configured to process credit card purchases in real-time, or it can store orders to be invoiced or processed at a later time. Realtime for QuickBooks can also accept PayPal and other web-exclusive payment forms.

Accounting

Realtime for QuickBooks enables the user to maintain up-to-the-minute accounting of all web store activity directly in QuickBooks. The user never has to 'upload' or 'download' bookkeeping information from the web store. Every single web transaction is recorded into QuickBooks in real-time, as it happens. No subsequent input is necessary. Accounting records are accurate and accessible 24-hours a day.

Inventory

Realtime for QuickBooks keeps track of every item in QuickBooks, in real-time. Users can elect to have out-of-stock items automatically removed from the web store display (until stock is replenished). This feature is a tremendous benefit since it eliminates the need to re-contact customers with notification the item they ordered is not available or will be late in delivery. The result is better customer relations and huge bottom-line savings.

Web
Design

Realtime for QuickBooks comes complete with multiple ready-to-launch web site templates so users don't need to know anything about HTML or other site creation tools. It takes just a few mouse clicks to publish a brand new web store. Users can 'customize' their web site to have virtually any appearance imaginable. Moreover, the site layout, colors,fonts and other design elements can be 'switched' among a palette of choices with a single mouse-click, so the look and feel of the web store is always fresh and new.

Shipping

Realtime for QuickBooks includes a flexible shipping module that can be user-defined or linked in real-time to USPS and FedEx. This powerful QuickBooks enhancement allows online customers to pick the mode of shipping they prefer, and then receive a tracking notice via e-mail that lets them monitor their order delivery. It also includes regular postal options and the ability to add a fixed handling charge to every order. Few online e-commerce systems have this high level of shipping options.

Marketing

Opening a web store is just the first step in e-commerce. After that, it's vital to market the store so online shoppers will be able to find it. That's why includes a comprehensive set of Internet marketing tools to help store operators promote their web site including a built-in e-mail autoresponder for communicating with customers and site visitors, plus scores of tips on how to get high rankings on popular search engines; how to develop affiliate programs; how to distribute e-coupons; and lots of other practical marketing advice.

Reporting

Realtime for QuickBooks includes a full set of performance and activity reports that users can access at any time so they can analyze how their web store is doing. These reports provide an instant snapshot of important customer visit and sales activity, plus all of the accounting records contained in QuickBooks... retrievable any time from any place in the world via the Internet.