Tag: Advanced Inventory

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 [...]

May 23, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More

QuickBooks 2013 R6

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2013 R6 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. This is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site, and it looks as though Intuit will push this out as an automatic update right away also, rather than a week later as is normal.  Please note that [...]

March 28, 2013 | By | 44 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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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

QuickBooks 2013 R4 Released

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2013 R4 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. At the time I’m writing this the release is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site. I would expect this to be released as an automatic update within a week, if all goes well (unless they change [...]

December 5, 2012 | By | 48 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 R3 Released

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2013 R3 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. At the time I’m writing this the release is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site. I would expect this to be released as an automatic update within a week, if all goes well. I’ve been playing [...]

October 24, 2012 | By | 43 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 Has Arrived! Here is What To Expect

QuickBooks 2013 is here! QuickBooks 2013 contains a number of new features, as well as improvements to existing ones. This article will list the major changes that I’m aware of, with details to come in future articles. PLEASE NOTE that much of this is based on information from an early release candidate of QuickBooks 2013 [...]

September 10, 2012 | By | 52 Replies More