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Barcoding for QuickBooks: SmartScan Order Verification

I’ve been talking about QuickBooks barcode support a lot lately. If you have an inventory-centric business, barcodes can really help improve your efficiency and accuracy of data entry. This has been an area that I’ve received a lot of questions about ever since Intuit introduced barcode support in QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory.  While I like [...]

February 19, 2013 | By | 7 Replies More

Barcoding for QuickBooks: SmartScan Inventory Count

Barcodes can be used to improve the speed and accuracy of certain QuickBooks inventory-related tasks, but only if you have the proper software. One of the functions where barcoding can be very useful is with taking a physical inventory count – let’s take a look at how SmartScan Inventory Count by Baus Systems can help. [...]

February 5, 2013 | By | Reply More

Barcoding for QuickBooks: SmartScan Barcode Translator

If you are managing inventory with QuickBooks then you are probably very interested in the possibility of streamlining your operation by using barcoding. If properly implemented a good barcode system can improve accuracy of data entry and be a great time saver. Out of the box, most editions of QuickBooks don’t support barcoding, so you [...]

January 24, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More

MISys Easy Purchasing for QuickBooks

Purchasing management isn’t the most developed aspect of QuickBooks, but for an inventory-centric business it can be a key issue. How do you know what items you need to purchase, and how many of each? Let’s take a quick look at some options that you have, including a new product that was introduced at the [...]

November 2, 2012 | By | 19 Replies More

QuickBooks Advanced Inventory Error Identified, Repair Now Possible

Earlier this year we published an article by Bill Murphy about a variety of problems with the QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory feature. One of the problems was a file corruption issue (when using the multiple inventory location feature of QuickBooks Enterprise with Advanced Inventory) that could not be repaired. Intuit has finally identified the problem, [...]

October 25, 2012 | By | 3 Replies More

QuickBooks 2013 Inventory Improvements

These are a number of inventory-related changes in QuickBooks 2013 that I like. Let’s take a look at what I’ve found. PLEASE NOTE that much of this is based on information from an early release candidate of QuickBooks 2013 – it is possible that some features may vary from what is described here. Also, this [...]

September 21, 2012 | By | 10 Replies More

QuickBooks 2013 Bin Locations

Intuit introduced the multiple inventory site feature in QuickBooks Enterprise V11, as a part of the optional Advanced Inventory feature. This allowed you to create up to 200 Inventory Sites to hold your QuickBooks inventory. This year they are expanding this feature to add a second level, Locations within Inventory Sites, which is something that [...]

September 19, 2012 | By | 5 Replies More

QuickBooks 2013 Barcode Support

Inventory management using Barcode  scanners and printers has been a key element of many businesses for a long, long time. There are a number of very good QuickBooks add-on products that provide support for barcodes, but Intuit has always ignored this feature. Until now. If you purchase the Advanced Inventory option for QuickBooks Enterprise V13, [...]

September 14, 2012 | By | 24 Replies More

QuickBooks Advanced Inventory Database Problems

A couple of years ago, Intuit introduced a new subscription based add-on to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, Advanced Inventory. In its initial year this new feature provided “multi-site” capabilities, allowing users to track inventory quantities for each item by specific physical locations. This gave users the ability to create up to 200 Inventory Sites such as [...]

September 6, 2012 | By | 16 Replies More

QuickBooks Enhanced Inventory Receiving–More Workarounds

I’ve talked about the problems that you can run into with the optional Enhanced Inventory Receiving (EIR) function in QuickBooks Enterprise V12, but there are still situations where you may find that this feature is needed. Let’s talk about some workarounds that are available for one of the big problems.

June 4, 2012 | By | 16 Replies More