4 Things You Should Know About Advanced Settings in QuickBooks Online
July 23, 2019 by Jeanne in category Accounting, QuickBooksDo you know about all of QuickBooks Online's settings? What you're missing may be important. Looking through all the settings available in QuickBooks Online is something like reading the owner's manual when you get a new car. You know you should do it, but you find yourself consulting it only when you encounter a problem. [...]
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July 9, 2019 by Jeanne in category Accounting, QuickBooksIf you frequently sell multiple inventory items grouped together, you need to learn about QuickBooks' assemblies. Let's say you run a home improvement retail outlet, and one of the things you sell is doors. You might sell their parts-door frames, hinges, doorknobs, etc.-individually, in case a customer needs to replace a piece. You may also [...]
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June 19, 2019 by Jeanne in category Accounting, QuickBooksEstimates-or quotes, or bids-are useful tools when you're pitching a sale of products or services. Here's how QuickBooks Online handles them. Sales estimates are standard procedure in many professions. You wouldn't authorize a car repair without one. Nor would you OK a remodeling job on your kitchen or a summer's worth of yard landscaping without [...]
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June 11, 2019 by Jeanne in category Accounting, QuickBooksCredit Memos A credit memo is just what it sounds like. A customer returns an item for which they’ve already paid, and you have to credit him or her for its cost. This is the more complicated of the two and requires more bookkeeping, since you’re tracking the sale, its payment, and the return item. [...]
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May 22, 2019 by Jeanne in category Accounting, QuickBooksDoes your business do work for clients over weeks or months? Consider using QuickBooks Online's progress invoicing. Let's say you're doing a job or project for a customer that is going to take a long time, but you don't want to wait until you're finished to get paid. Or you've agreed to let a customer [...]
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May 14, 2019 by Jeanne in category Accounting, QuickBooksThe data in your QuickBooks company file contains some of the most sensitive information on your computer. Make sure it's secure. Your customer list is gold. And those Social Security and bank card numbers in your payroll, client, and vendor records need to be protected from intruders and only viewed by authorized employees. It's not [...]
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April 4, 2018 by Jeanne in category Accounting, Fishbowl, Inventory Management, QuickBooksIf you’re lucky enough to have suppliers who let you hold inventory on consignment, good for you! Having inventory that you don’t have to pay for until after it’s sold is great for cash flow. However, if you don’t do things right in Fishbowl, consigned inventory is not so great for your accounting records. In [...]
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September 7, 2017 by Jeanne in category Fishbowl, Inventory Management, QuickBooks tagged as Fishbowl, Fishbowl InventoryFishbowl Inventory is a powerful inventory program that integrates with QuickBooks and provides a wide range of features for manufacturing, warehousing and asset tracking. However, just like with any software, to get the most out of Fishbowl Inventory, proper setup is key. Here are the 7 “deadly sins” of Fishbowl Inventory file setup that you [...]
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July 11, 2017 by Jeanne in category Fishbowl, Inventory Management, QuickBooks tagged as Inventory ManagementLike many things in Fishbowl (and life), when it comes to receiving and reconciling the receipt of inventory against the vendor bill, there’s a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. Follow the right way to receive, and life in Fishbowl/QuickBooks–land is joyful and wonderful. Do things the wrong way, and things [...]
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June 29, 2017 by Jeanne in category Fishbowl, Payable, QuickBooksFishbowl is robust program for managing your inventory, enabling you to do things that just aren’t possible in QuickBooks alone. Doing things in the right order makes a big difference In a Fishbowl/QuickBooks environment, Fishbowl acts as the “master.” You receive and reconcile inventory in Fishbowl, and then Fishbowl pushes the information through to QuickBooks. [...]
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