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"By incorporating customer feedback into the product development process, we have delivered the most important new features that small businesses and accountants have been asking for," said Cary Rosenzweig, vice president, QuickBooks Payroll. "Offering a service that includes comprehensive payroll functionality and automatic QuickBooks upgrades ensures that our customers always have the most up-to-date software and current payroll updates while saving time and money."

New Time-Saving Tools Enhanced Payroll Plus and Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants also include new time-saving tools, such as the ability to calculate bonuses and commissions in one simple step using Net-to-Gross Calculations. The Rapid Time Entry feature help users process payroll faster by allowing them to input hours for all employees on a single screen. The new built-in Workers' Compensation Tracking feature tracks classification codes and rates associated with various job functions helping business to more accurately manage the cost of workers' compensation. Plus, the workers' compensation functionality automatically calculates and excludes overtime premiums, eliminating the possibility of premium under- or over-payment. Integrated Direct Deposit is also available making it easy to deposit paychecks directly into employees' bank accounts, no matter where they are on payday.

"Features such as Workers' Compensation and Rapid Time Entry in the new QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll service help me easily and accurately manage payroll," said Patricia Roberts of Roberts Bookkeeping Service in San Fernando, Calif. "Now that state forms have been added, work that used to take me hours can be completed in minutes."

Pricing & Availability
QuickBooks Standard Payroll, QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll Plus and QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants are available immediately with a shipping date of November 10, 2004 on www.quickbooks.com or by calling 1-800-264-5643.

• QuickBooks Standard Payroll: $199.00 per year.
• QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll Plus: $399.00 per year with QuickBooks Pro, or $499.00 with QuickBooks Premier. QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll is also available without software upgrades for $299.
• QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll Plus for Accountants: $399.00 per year with QuickBooks Pro, or $499.00 with QuickBooks Premier. QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll for Accountants is also available without software upgrades for $299.
• Direct Deposit is a pay per use service, priced at $0.99 per check and $3.00 per transmission.

In addition to these new products, Intuit offers Intuit Payroll Services, including Complete Payroll and QuickBooks Assisted Payroll. For more information on Intuit's broad range of payroll solutions visit www.payroll.com.