QuickBooks and Your Business

Details announced about new QuickBooks 2011 version

Shannon Tucker — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:35:23 +0000

Intuit today announced details about the upcoming QuickBooks 2011 version: Will go on sale September 27 Includes new batch invoicing feature for repetitive charges Integrates with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail for emailed invoicing Customer snapshot gives quick look at a customer’s history and stats QuickBooks Connect offered as new separately billable service to access some QuickBooks company data through the web or [...]

Three things you need to know about your inventory (guest blog)

Shannon Tucker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:12:50 +0000

There are three important things you need to know about your inventory to be successful in inventory management: 1. How much inventory you have right now. Do you know how many products you have on hand? If not, can you find out how many in a few seconds or would it be a big ordeal to [...]

Bear spray, QuickBooks, and your computer

Shannon Tucker — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:00:04 +0000

When my family camped in Yellowstone National Park last month, we were camping in bear country. Unfortunately, there have been some bad bear incidents in Yellowstone this summer. A friend of mine let me borrow his bear spray for our trip. Bear spray is like personal-defense pepper spray, except it’s grizzly bear strength. I took the spray [...]

11 things I love and hate about Twitter

Shannon Tucker — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:48:27 +0000

I haven’t had my B2B Twitter account for terribly long, but I’ve had it long enough to know what I like and don’t like about it. Likes: Making connections with people in my profession and market. Getting a real-time view of the sentiment and perceived needs of my market Learning about software, leadership, marketing, and technology. And other random stuff [...]

How-NOT-to Guide for Using QuickBooks

Shannon Tucker — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:21:17 +0000

Here are the quickest ways — the shortcuts — to running into trouble with QuickBooks: Get a business owner — not a professional bookkeeper or accountant — to set up the books. This is like a business owner who is not in the construction business pouring their own concrete and putting in their office plumbing themselves. [...]

QuickBooks networking problems? Diagnose with the free tool

Shannon Tucker — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:40:24 +0000

Intuit has a free, downloadable tool to help diagnose and troubleshoot connectivity and multi-user issues. The QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic Tool can help solve certain 6000 errors and H202 and H505 errors. Their tool is compatible with QuickBooks 2008, 2009, and 2010 versions (for Enterprise Edition users, versions 8, 9, and 10.) It works under Windows 7, [...]

Wifi in the wilderness

Shannon Tucker — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:57:33 +0000

My family was in Yellowstone National Park last week, and we needed to find a wifi hotspot so that my daughter could log in and add some college classes to her fall class schedule. We saw this and went to the Visitor Center with our laptop: Only one problem. That little graphic sign doesn’t mean wifi. It means [...]

5 QuickBooks Online Tutorials

Shannon Tucker — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:57:36 +0000

Cathy Iconis, CPA, has assembled a list of five free online tutorials for QuickBooks Online. How to bill a customer How to get paid How to make a deposit How to write checks How to use online banking Check it out: QuickBooks Online Tutorials (PDF) Know of any other good online resources for learning QBO? Share/Bookmark

Why you should backup all your license keys and install codes today

Shannon Tucker — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:24:11 +0000

“I’m using an old version of QuickBooks, and my hard drive died today. QuickBooks won’t give me the install codes – they say they don’t support my version anymore, and I have to upgrade. But I don’t want to upgrade! I just want to reinstall my old version.” I have this conversation with users all the [...]

Offer New QuickBooks Data Services to Your Clients

Shannon Tucker — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:06:04 +0000

Are you a… QuickBooks ProAdvisor QuickBooks Advanced Certified ProAdvisor Intuit Marketplace Developer IT consultant You might qualify to become a QuickbooksUsers.com Referral Partner. We team up with selected individuals and companies in the U.S. and around the world to offer critical QuickBooks data services to their client bases. It means more billable income for you, and a competitive advantage; extremely [...]