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QuickBooks Manufacturing with Fishbowl–Lot Numbers

I thought it might interesting to complement Charlie Russell’s recent QuickBooks manufacturing article (Quickbooks Manufacturing-Lot Number Workaround) with a similar one on the Fishbowl Manufacturing process using lot numbers. We will see that Charlie’s workaround of splitting lines to pick different lot numbers is systematized in the Fishbowl process. Editors Note: Fishbowl is an inventory [...]

June 12, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More

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. [...]

June 10, 2013 | By | 60 Replies More

Intuit Practice Management

Intuit is rolling out a new cloud-based product for accounting professionals this week, Intuit Practice Management (IPM). This product has been in “pilot” status for over two years now, but now anyone can sign up for it. Let’s take a quick look at what this offers. What does “practice management” mean to you? Different people [...]

June 6, 2013 | By | Reply More

QuickBooks 2013 R7 Bug–and Fix

Here’s a good example of why I always tell people to not install a “manual update”, instead you should wait for the “automatic update”. QuickBooks 2013 R7 was just released yesterday, and already we have found a bug that could cause some problems for people. Fortunately, there is a fix available that solves the problem. [...]

June 5, 2013 | By | 19 Replies More

Shopping for a QuickBooks Shopping Cart?

When I talk with new or potential customers, the question I get asked most is “What shopping cart should I use?” My answer is usually “It depends”. Generally I try to remain unbiased as I work with lots of different ecommerce products and try to remain “product agnostic”. In a previous article, I covered what [...]

April 25, 2013 | By | 8 Replies More

Connecting Data Between QuickBooks and Other Applications–My Nightmare

Last summer I experienced a “data nightmare” with a QuickBooks data file. We were using QuickBooks Enterprise 12 R8 and the data file had about 5 years of transactions. The problems we encountered get to the core of what can go wrong when connecting two software systems together, but this case is specific to QuickBooks [...]

April 23, 2013 | By | 24 Replies More

ZenCash Dashboard for Receivables Management

Earlier this year Stacy Kildal wrote about ZenCash as a product/service that you can use to manage your receivables and collections. Let’s take a look at a new feature they have added earlier this year, the ZenCash Dashboard. If you are managing a business that has a significant amount of receivables, this dashboard can give [...]

April 10, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More

Mass Updater Utility for QuickBooks Data

How many times have you found yourself needing to make a mass change of some type to your QuickBooks transaction data? It may be simple enough to make that change on a few transactions, but what if it is the same item of information hundreds of different transaction? Perhaps you mistakenly entered a group of [...]

April 9, 2013 | By | 14 Replies More

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. [...]

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