Category: QuickBooks Tips/Tricks
QuickBooks Manufacturing–Lot Number Workaround
QuickBooks Enterprise has an optional Advanced Inventory add-on (which is an annual subscription) and one of the features is Inventory Lot Tracking. However, when you use this in a manufacturing environment there are a few little tricks you need to be aware of. Let’s talk about what to do if your component demand is larger [...]
QuickBooks Online–Changes for May 2013
Here’s a quick look at some recent, and upcoming, changes to QuickBooks Online. Some of these are already available, some will be coming out in the near future. Many of these features are found in, or linked to, QuickBooks Online Accountant. Create a New Company for your clients from within QuickBooks Online Accountant. A link [...]
QuickBooks Sales Tax– Negative Value on Liability Report
If you are using the sales tax feature in QuickBooks then you are most likely relying on the Sales Tax Liability report to show you the total taxable sales amount for your reporting period. Sometimes, though, there can be a very confusing entry in that report, and I often get calls asking about this. People [...]
The Demise of the QuickBooks Third Party Developer?
I remember the first Intuit developer-Pro Advisor conference in San Francisco back in 2002, where I started friendships that have lasted throughout the decade. I remember meeting Bonnie Nagayama and feeling honored to meet this famous person whose name popped up all over the place; I am still honored to have such a smart friend, [...]
Cloud Accounting with QuickBooks Online–The Details
I introduced you to QuickBooks Online (QBO) in our prior article (QuickBooks Online Overview), now let’s dig in a bit deeper. In our attempt to come up with a standard for comparing online accounting systems, we (Doug Sleeter, MB Raimondi and myself) came up with a list of features that we would like to see [...]
Cloud Accounting with QuickBooks Online–An Overview
As a part of my ongoing series of articles on cloud accounting programs for small businesses, lets take a look at QuickBooks Online. It’s been around for awhile, it’s from a company that has a big presence in the small business accounting market, it’s one you are going to run into often. Intuit is making [...]
Improving QuickBooks Performance by Boosting RAM
I have openly been critical of Intuit’s intentional limitations of RAM for their QuickBooks products. In more than one article in this blog, I have written about the effects of these limitations on QuickBooks performance. We are all too aware that the performance of QuickBooks has always become worse as the database increases in size. [...]
Fixing QuickBooks Problems: Free Tools You Can Use
Any time that you are working with a program that runs on Microsoft Windows you have to be ready to fix odd problems that can crop up. QuickBooks is no exception – it relies on many different components and settings in Windows to work properly, and if something isn’t right then QuickBooks just won’t run [...]
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 [...]
QuickBooks 2008 R11 Released
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2008 R11 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. This is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site. I’m not sure how this will be handled as far as automatic updates. Similar to the recent QuickBooks 2009 R15 update this is an update of a retired [...]
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