You don’t need an attorney to start and run a business — most of the legal work involved simply requires reliable information and the right legal forms. With Quicken Legal Business Pro, you’ll get everything you need to get the job done.

Completely updated to reflect the latest laws and regulations of your state, Quicken Legal Business Pro provides:

• over 100 contracts, forms, and worksheets
• five completely searchable Nolo business bestsellers
• comprehensive “How to” checklists that help you through complex tasks
• free downloadable legal updates throughout 2016
• a free download of Nolo’s bestselling book Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, a $34.99 value, when you register your software

Plus, prepare cash flow, sales revenue and profit and loss forecasts, and use dozens of sample letters and policies, including collection and loan request letters. Quicken Legal Business Pro brings these six Nolo bestsellers together in one easy-to-use software package:

• Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business
• The Manager’s Legal Handbook
• How to Write a Business Plan
• Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference
• Deduct It! Lower Your Small Business Taxes
• The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws

With over 100 legal forms, you’ll have access to the documents you need, when you need them. You can also take notes, create bookmarks, and read real-world examples of situations you’re likely to face.

Need more details? Here’s a deeper look at what you can do with Quicken Legal Business Pro:

Plan for Success

Select the best structure for your business, obtain licenses and permits, buy or sell a franchise, file required documents, and minimize the chances of legal disputes. Figure out if your business idea will make money and present a comprehensive plan to potential investors.

Manage Taxes

Identify deductions allowed by the IRS, write off long-term business assets, maximize retirement funds, and minimize the chance of an audit.

Create a Business Plan

Figure out if your business idea will make money, find potential sources of financing, prepare cash flow and profit & loss forecasts, determine your assets, liabilities, and net worth, create a marketing and personnel plan, and present a comprehensive plan to potential investors.

Build Your Team

Hire workers, develop sensible personnel policies, supervise independent contractors, communicate effectively with employees, minimize the chance of employee lawsuits, and legally terminate workers when necessary.

Get Financing

Identify the best prospects for loans from a bank or loved ones, understand the legal and tax issues of borrowing money from family and friends, determine the best structure for each loan, draft a loan request letter, receive guidance on the best way to pitch your loan requests, protect your lenders, and deal with necessary documents, such as promissory notes.

List of forms:

Buying or Selling a Business

• Amendment to Contract (General)
• Attachment to Contract (General)
• Bill of Sale for Business Assets
• Contract for Purchase of Corporate Assets
• Contract for Purchase of Corporate Stock
• Contract for Purchase of Unincorporated Business
• Corporate Resolution Authorizing Sale of Assets
• Security Agreement for Buying Business Assets
• and more!

Contracts for Goods and Services

• Bill of Sale for Goods
• Consignment Contract
• Contract for Manufacture of Goods
• Contract for Services
• Equipment Rental Contract
• Invoice
• Mutual Release of Contract Claims
• Proposal
• Request for Proposal
• Sales Contract
• and more!

Corporate Minutes and Consents

• Consent of Directors
• Consent of Shareholders
• Minutes of Directors’ Meeting
• Minutes of Shareholders’ Meeting
• Notice of Directors’ Meeting
• Notice of Shareholders’ Meeting
• Shareholder Proxy
• and more!

Forming a Business

• Affidavit of Lost Stock Certificate
• Corporate Bylaws
• Operating Agreement for Single-Member LLC
• Partnership Agreement
• Pre-Incorporation Agreement
• Stock Agreement
• and more!

Hiring Workers

• Authorization to Release Information
• Confidentiality Agreement
• Contract with Independent Contractor
• Employment Application
• Non-compete Agreement
• Offer of Employment
• and more!

Leasing Space

• Amendment to Lease
• Assignment of Lease
• Attachment to Lease
• Extension of Lease
• Gross Lease
• Landlord’s Consent to Sublease
• and more!

LLC Minutes and Consents

• Consent of LLC Members
• Minutes of LLC Meeting
• Notice of LLC Meeting
• and more!

Managing Finances

• Limited Power of Attorney for Finances
• Promissory Note (Amortized Payments)
• Promissory Note (Balloon Payment)
• Security Agreement for Borrowing Money
• and more!

Buying and Selling Real Estate

• Amendment to Real Estate Purchase Contract
• Attachment to Real Estate Purchase Contract
• Contract to Purchase Building
• Contract to Purchase Vacant Land
• Exercise of Option to Purchase Real Estate
• Removal of Contingency
• and more!

System Requirements
Pentium 400 MHz • Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Vista • 510 RAM or higher • 75 MB (plus 500 MB to 1.5 GB for Microsoft .NET 4.0 if not already installed) • 800 x 600 (1024 x 768 recommended; with 16-bit color) • CD-ROM Drive: 2x speed • Internet Connection: 56 Kbps modem required to access online features • Printer: Any printer supported by Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Vista • Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher; Adobe Reader; Spreadsheet Program

Design Emails like a Pro with HTML Email Templates

Build branded online newsletters, ads, invites & more from great-looking email marketing templates. Why start from scratch? Craft your own professional email marketing with easy editing tools that don’t require HTML or design experience. It’s fast, easy, and affordable. Easily edit hundreds of email marketing templates to create customized email campaigns that reflect your business.

Engage Your Customers with Stunning Emails

Select from a broad selection of unique email marketing templates. Chose from circular & slanted photo frames, layered images & engaging layouts that require serious HTML skills to create!

No HTML or Design Experience Required!

You don’t need to know any HTML to edit these professional designs. Every template has been tested to display correctly across popular email clients, so you can rest assured that your masterpieces arrive in every inbox intact. The Photo Editor allows you to edit images with ease & ensures perfect placement of each image in the template. Quickly add, remove or edit text from any template — it is as easy as working in Microsoft Word.

Customize Your Email Campaign

Precise colors from your logo or website are selected and saved to the Color Theme Manager. Create your own color scheme and personalize your email marketing campaign for optimum results, or select from pre-existing sets. The eMail Merge feature cleverly inserts customer information, such as name and address for maximum impact.

Send Your Email Marketing Using Your Preferred Email Client

High Impact Email is flexible from the design stage to delivery. Send your emails using Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Gmail, Windows Mail, or ACT. You can also upload your finished design to any online email service that supports HTML, such as MailChimp, Constant Contact, iContact and others.

System Requirements
Operating system compatibility: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 • Email client compatibility: Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003; Windows Live Mail; Gmail; SMTP; Amazon SES; ACT! 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 • Internet connection: Required to activate the product and use the ReadyShare service

Create Print-Ready Business & Marketing Documents with professionally designed Office Template Software for Microsoft® Word, Excel & PowerPoint. Easily compose professional business documents & marketing materials, sales reports, newsletters, and more. Publish eye-catching PowerPoint presentations and design business cards & letterhead in minutes!

Easy to Use – Professional Results!

Starting with quality templates saves time and ensures professional results. Studio-quality templates are provided for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Select from a library of over 700 templates for flyers, brochures, collateral materials, presentations, and more. Create accurate sales receipts and invoices using Microsoft Excel templates pre-populated with key calculations.

The Photo Editor allows you to crop and resize images, and insert them perfectly into your template. The Color Theme Manager makes it easy to create and save custom colors and themes. Customize your business documents and presentations with colors and themes to reflect and build your branding.

Professional Microsoft Office Word Templates

Why start from scratch? Studio-quality templates for brochures, flyers and more ensure professional results.

Powerful Tools to Build Your Business

Microsoft Office Excel Templates Pre-formatted with Formulas
Save time! Start with templates for sales reports, invoices, and more.

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation Templates
Select a professional design and focus on your presentation!

PDF Creator
Publish your Word and Excel templates as PDF’s for professional and secure documents and forms.

Automatic Profiles
Insert your contact information into any template with one-click.

Photo Editor
Crop, resize, and insert images into any Word, Excel, or PowerPoint template.

Color Theme Manager
Customize the color and theme of any template to build your business brand.

More Features!
Includes mail merge and importing contacts from Outlook, QuickBooks, and ACT.

System Requirements
Operating system compatibility: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista • Microsoft Office compatibility: Office 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003

Simple Invoice provides everything you need to prepare professional invoices & estimates. Customize invoices, estimates & statements with important details. Generate reports to track customer payments and sales revenue. Easily create recurring invoices to streamline your business and save time. Export invoices and reports to PDF to e-mail your clients. It’s that easy!

The flexible design allows you to create other documents to support your business needs. You’ll have support for products, tax rates, database backups, and payment tracking. Easily create custom invoices, quotes, estimates, receipts, statements and reports. You can track payments of individual invoices and monitor how much each customer owes you to manage your business for success.

Product Feature Bullets:

• Easily Create Custom Invoices, Quotes, Estimates, Receipts, Statements & Reports.
• Get Paid Quickly! Set up recurring invoices to manage long term customer relationships.
• Payment –tracking – track payments of individual invoices and monitor how much each customer owes you.
• Receive Payments & Track Invoices in one place.
• Generate Reports on Sales by customer, by product, total taxes, and more.
• Support for products, tax rates, database backups, integrated database upgrades for smooth transition of versions.

System Requirements
Pentium® PC or Higher • Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or XP • DVD-ROM Drive • 20-200 MB hard drive space available per application • Microsoft® Office required for some applications • Internet access required for some applications

Accomplish Intelligent Organizational Charting and Workforce Planning with OrgChart

OrgChart Platinum can quickly assemble your organizational structure charts from your HR data or company directory. It can be used for budgeting, staffing, and succession planning. Your org charts can be easily shared throughout the company. OrgChart Platinum is the best tool to visualize, communicate and manage the key working relationships of your company’s precious resource – your employees.

Key Features & Benefits

• Easy Chart Creation & Publishing. Take data from a spreadsheet or any payroll system or Human Resource Information System to automatically create charts.  Publish to interactive PDF, the web, or Microsoft Office.
• View Critical Talent Information. Display any employee attribute (e.g., performance ratings, potential successors for key roles, etc.). Identify employees with specific characteristics (e.g., high potentials) through color coding and then view the comprehensive talent profile on each employee through single-click access.
• View Talent Gaps. Identify areas of the organization which may lack critical competencies, individuals filling key roles, future successors or potentially “at risk” employee groups.
• Export in Multiple File Formats.  Export your organizational chart to PDF, PowerPoint and the Web for executive presentations and further planning and analysis.
• Model Promotion Scenarios.  Determine the resulting structure within various functions if certain individuals are promoted or moved from one department to another.
• Presentation Flexibility. OrgChart allows you to define and implement your own rules to create your own look and feel for your charts.
• View “What if?” Scenarios. Change in positions, salaries, and other human resource related scenarios and how they will impact the organization.

Improve HR Data

Maybe your HR data is not perfect?  Do not let bad information hold up getting your org charts right and prevent you from gaining insight into your enterprise. Our proprietary Data Import Technology is the best in the industry. Now you can “clean” and import your HR data with ease.

Scenario Planning

Gain insight into your organization. Monitor key metrics, visualize your organization, and automate your workforce planning scenarios. Tackle complex workforce issues with OrgChart Platinum’s HR Analytic engine. OrgChart gives you the ability to plan, visualize and monitor your organization and its key metrics.

Communicate Accurately

Whether you are presenting to the Board of Directors, the Management team, the Managers or Employees, OrgChart helps you present the Organization as you want others to see it.

Manual or Auto? You decide

With OrgChart Platinum you have options.  Create your org chart manually by dragging and dropping boxes onto the canvas, or… import data from your Payroll System, HR Database, or any Spreadsheet.  Sound complicated?  It is not; our Import wizard makes it very easy.

Easy Navigation and Display

Easily “drill-down” to all levels within the organization as well as from one business unit to another; alternate between chart view and list view for a streamlined display of reporting relationships.

Calculations for Headcount, Span of Control and More!

OrgChart Platinum has new calculations that let you view your workforce with greater granularity information about people, costs vs. performance, salaries, and span of control.

Automatic Updates.  Organization Charts are always kept up to date using data synchronization.  You can be confident that any charts you are sharing perfectly reflect your data source.

System Requirements: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7 • 139 MB Hard Disk Space • CD-ROM Drive • 800 x 600, 16-Bit or Higher Display • 16-Bit Sound Card • Speakers or Headphones • Mouse. Internet Connection required for activation.

Accomplish Intelligent Organizational Charting and Workforce Planning with OrgChart

OrgChart Platinum can quickly assemble your organizational structure charts from your HR data or company directory. It can be used for budgeting, staffing, and succession planning. Your org charts can be easily shared throughout the company. OrgChart Platinum is the best tool to visualize, communicate and manage the key working relationships of your company’s precious resource – your employees.

Key Features & Benefits

• Easy Chart Creation & Publishing. Take data from a spreadsheet or any payroll system or Human Resource Information System to automatically create charts.  Publish to interactive PDF, the web, or Microsoft Office.
• View Critical Talent Information. Display any employee attribute (e.g., performance ratings, potential successors for key roles, etc.). Identify employees with specific characteristics (e.g., high potentials) through color coding and then view the comprehensive talent profile on each employee through single-click access.
• View Talent Gaps. Identify areas of the organization which may lack critical competencies, individuals filling key roles, future successors or potentially “at risk” employee groups.
• Export in Multiple File Formats.  Export your organizational chart to PDF, PowerPoint and the Web for executive presentations and further planning and analysis.
• Model Promotion Scenarios.  Determine the resulting structure within various functions if certain individuals are promoted or moved from one department to another.
• Presentation Flexibility. OrgChart allows you to define and implement your own rules to create your own look and feel for your charts.
• View “What if?” Scenarios. Change in positions, salaries, and other human resource related scenarios and how they will impact the organization.

Improve HR Data

Maybe your HR data is not perfect?  Do not let bad information hold up getting your org charts right and prevent you from gaining insight into your enterprise. Our proprietary Data Import Technology is the best in the industry. Now you can “clean” and import your HR data with ease.

Scenario Planning

Gain insight into your organization. Monitor key metrics, visualize your organization, and automate your workforce planning scenarios. Tackle complex workforce issues with OrgChart Platinum’s HR Analytic engine. OrgChart gives you the ability to plan, visualize and monitor your organization and its key metrics.

Communicate Accurately

Whether you are presenting to the Board of Directors, the Management team, the Managers or Employees, OrgChart helps you present the Organization as you want others to see it.

Manual or Auto? You decide

With OrgChart Platinum you have options.  Create your org chart manually by dragging and dropping boxes onto the canvas, or… import data from your Payroll System, HR Database, or any Spreadsheet.  Sound complicated?  It is not; our Import wizard makes it very easy.

Easy Navigation and Display

Easily “drill-down” to all levels within the organization as well as from one business unit to another; alternate between chart view and list view for a streamlined display of reporting relationships.

Calculations for Headcount, Span of Control and More!

OrgChart Platinum has new calculations that let you view your workforce with greater granularity information about people, costs vs. performance, salaries, and span of control.

Automatic Updates.  Organization Charts are always kept up to date using data synchronization.  You can be confident that any charts you are sharing perfectly reflect your data source.

System Requirements: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7 • 139 MB Hard Disk Space • CD-ROM Drive • 800 x 600, 16-Bit or Higher Display • 16-Bit Sound Card • Speakers or Headphones • Mouse. Internet Connection required for activation.