QuickBooks Point of Sale V10 – Using Quick Pick items

QuickBooks Point of Sale V10 has a new feature called Quick Pick that QuickBooks Point of Sale clients have found quite useful. QuickBooks POS users often sell items that cannot be conveniently labeled: candy, wood flooring, pens, drinks, food. In prior QuickBooks POS versions, users needed to print tags for those items and affix them…..Read More

QuickBooks Inventory Analysis Tools

While they’ve made great strides in the past couple of years, QuickBooks could still do better from the inventory management perspective. If you have unique inventory needs, you probably need some extra help making everything gel in QuickBooks. If you’re interested in finding how to do that, Scott Gregory at Better Bottom Line reviews an…..Read More

Inventory Adjustment Accounts in QuickBooks

QuickBooks is usually versatile enough to not only handle your specialized accounting needs, but to be able to handle those needs in the way you want. A great example of this was recently discussed at CPA911. The post looked at setting up QuickBooks Inventory Adjustment accounts. While QuickBooks automatically sets up one of these accounts…..Read More

How to Repair Errors in your QuickBooks Data File

  Getting an error message about your QuickBooks data file can be frightening. After all, your company’s financial identity is contained in that single file. Everything from customer payments to inventory and more may ride on your QuickBooks data file. While you hopefully have a recent backup of the file, you’d hate to lose even…..Read More

File Compatibility Between QuickBooks Tiers

  As you know, QuickBooks comes in several different flavors depending on your business’ size, unique accounting needs, and a host of other factors. Each version has greater functionality than the one below it. But, what happens when you want to move up a tier in your QuickBooks use? Scott Gregory had an excellent article…..Read More

New Salesforce Integration for QuickBooks

We’ve talked before about how beneficial it can be to connect QuickBooks with your CRM solution. Being able to move data back and forth between your accounting package and your customer data package just makes sense. There have been a number of third-party applications that would make this happen in the past. Now, however, Intuit…..Read More

Job Costing and Payroll for QuickBooks

  One of the most useful QuickBooks features for some small businesses is job costing. Being able to tag specific expenses and income to a job lets you know just how profitable that job is. This is especially useful for construction or real estate companies, but others can take advantage of it, as well. Over…..Read More

The Intuit App Center and Your Small Business

One of the big selling points of QuickBooks for small businesses has always been the third party support. You don’t have a ton of internal resources to try to make QuickBooks work with your other systems, so third parties have offered tools for years that let you do just that. Today, the Intuit App Center…..Read More

QuickBooks in the Cloud

Larger companies have been using Cloud Computing solutions for years, but it’s really just been in the past year that smaller businesses have started to show interest. Cloud solutions are, in a nutshell, applications that run via the Internet. Perhaps the most familiar type of cloud computing for most consumers would be web-based email. Other…..Read More

Big Changes in QuickBooks 2012 R5

Some QuickBooks updates tend to be relatively minor and have to do with cosmetic or even back-end issues. Then, there are releases with major impact. The Release of QuickBooks 2012 R5 falls into the latter camp. There are some big changes here, and you need to know what they are. Fortunately, the QuickBooks and Beyond…..Read More