Category: Technical QuickBooks
Tracking Use Tax on Purchases in QuickBooks
I was recently asked by a reader about how to track Use Tax on purchases in QuickBooks. In states that charge sales tax, purchasers within those states often avoid paying tax by purchasing items from out-of-state suppliers. However, they are required to report those purchases to the state in which they“use” the purchased items, and [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Digging In To QuickBooks PDF Issues
Another article on QuickBooks and PDF’s. This time I want to explain some “inner workings” of QuickBooks and PDF drivers that I didn’t understand before now. This will mostly be of interest to those of you who like the technical details, but it may help if you are trying to work out some technical issues [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Understanding QuickBooks and the QBWin.log (Part 2)
In our first article we saw how the QBWin.log file provides many ‘simple English’ descriptions of problems and forms of corruption which may arise in the QuickBooks database. In this edition we will examine some additional common errors you may encounter. Duplicate List Entries Under some conditions, including certain data imports, QuickBooks fails to prevent [...]
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