Category: Charlie’s Rants
QuickBooks 2013 R7 Bug STILL A PROBLEM
If you are using a third-party add-on program that works with QuickBooks Desktop versions, there is an ongoing problem that may cause QuickBooks to crash when you try to use your add-on product. I’ve talked about the QuickBooks 2013 R7 bug fix before, but there is a lot more to this than I originally realized. [...]
Clarifying the Critical Fix Feature in QuickBooks 2013
Last week I wrote a speculative article about the new Critical Fix feature that was included in QuickBooks 2013 R6, based on some observations I made and some outdated information that I had from earlier in the year. Well, I was a bit off base on a few things, so here is an update. As [...]
The Cause of QuickBooks Database Corruption Found!
Anyone who has been supporting QuickBooks over the years knows that in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and QuickBooks database corruption (Wikipedia). If you work with a QuickBooks file over time, you know that at some point there will be data corruption. My friend (and sometimes blog guest [...]
QuickBooks 2013 R6 Critical Fixes Already Showing Up?
Intuit just released the 2013 R6 Update yesterday, and already we are seeing some “critical fix” patches coming out. Is this a good thing, or not? I can’t make my mind up on this one… PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME INFO HERE IS CORRECTED in this followup article: Clarifying the Critical Fix Feature in QuickBooks 2013. [...]
Intuit’s Direction for QuickBooks Add-On Software–Online!
Let’s face it – Intuit can’t create a feature for EVERY requirement that a business will have when using QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online. To that end, they provide several programming interfaces that independent software developers can use to create products that expand the capabilities of QuickBooks. We call these “third-party add-on” products. Intuit is changing [...]
Why Does QuickBooks Treat Sales Receipts as OPEN?
Do you know the difference between a Sales Receipt and an Invoice in QuickBooks? I often find that people really don’t understand the difference. Sometimes, though I wonder if Intuit understands the difference! There is one aspect to how they show Sales Receipts that really annoys me, so here is my latest rant. The difference [...]
Why Can’t QuickBooks Restore Backups Correctly?
Spring is in the air and that makes me sneeze, which makes me easily irritated. So I’m going to take it out on Intuit today, to complain about the way that QuickBooks handles backups, particularly how backups are restored. Making backups of your critical data is an essential business process, one that I find that [...]
QuickBooks and Windows 8
Sheesh, I just got used to Windows 7, and now they are coming out with Windows 8? Now we have to worry about QuickBooks being compatible with ANOTHER operating system? I got hold of a “Consumer Preview” copy of Windows 8 and I’m trying it out with QuickBooks – let’s see how it works!
We’d Like Your Feedback
We started QuickBooks and Beyond a year ago, and it is time for us to get some feedback from our readers. I hope that you can find the time to take a short survey (the link is at the bottom of the article). Several years ago I started “Practical QuickBooks”, a blog that would let [...]
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