Start taking credit card payments on your iPhone! See Andrew's blog below or click here.
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September 7, 2010 - Advanced User Security with QuickBooks Enterprise
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Franchising World Magazine: Lisa McCarthy shares her expertise on the timing of financial training for franchisees.
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Client News! Book signing with Tony Abou-Ganim
Lisa McCarthy facilitates a QuickBooks for Mac Workshop at the Apple Store at Somerset Mall in Troy, MI on August 18, 2010 at 10 am.
Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce Joint Golf Outing, May 17, 2010
QuickBooks Seminar Sponsored by Wisconsin Association of Accountants - Green Bay, WI, May 21, 2010
QuickBooks 2010 Release 8 (R8) - Click here for full details of the release. The QuickBooks 2010 R8 manual update is now available and can be downloaded by clicking here.
QuickBooks 2010 Release 7 - This latest QuickBooks update includes password security compliance requirements for users of QuickBooks Merchant Services. More information on this topic can be found at http://security.intuit.com/pci-dss.html - Read More on Release 7
Fishbowl Inventory 2010.5 Release - Read More
Fishbowl Inventory 2010.4 Release - Read More
QuickBooks 2010 Release 6 - Read More - Download Full Patch
Oasis CRM Releases build 4.3.3
QuickBooks 2009 Release 11 Now Live - Read More - Download Full Patch
You can now process credit cards on your iPhone. Intuit says its GoPayment and mophie marketplace offer a mobile app and a hardware package so small business owners can have on-the-go payments on their Apple iPhone. It’s an all-in-one product that integrates Intuit’s GoPayment credit card processing app and merchant account with the mophie marketplace 
credit card reader.
Making a sale to a customer is hard enough. Giving a refund back is even harder! But handling the accounting for customer credits and refunds is easy in QuickBooks.
Effective July 1, 2010, all merchants accepting credit cards using QuickBooks 2010 must adhere to new, stricter password protection requirements. To comply with these password protection requirements going into effect this summer, anyone using Merchant Service-enabled QuickBooks files must download an upcoming June 2010 update.
In any industry, time is your biggest asset! Optimize your business resources and your profitablity by using QuickBooks to track the types of tasks performed and the time it takes to get them done.
Out Of The Box Technology now has a page on Facebook and we enjoy passing along "news you can use" when it comes to QuickBooks, Information Technology and other accounting technology solutions - plus our events. While there are benefits to Facebook, Richard McElroy, president of the Out Of The Box Technology affiliate in California, wanted to share some information he found recently. Take it away Richard -
We like to pass along some good economic news when we see it. Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks®, reported recently that small business employment grew by 0.33 percent in April, 2010. Dr. Susan Woodward, a nationally-recognized economist, says, “Small businesses are looking healthier. Every trend we measure – employment, hours worked, and monthly compensation – is showing signs of a recovery.
Wanted to get the word out about another email phishing scam - this one again intended for QuickBooks® users. The Subject Line of the email reads "Intuit Update." DO NOT DOWNLOAD anything from this email! Click here to read the email - no worries - it doesn't link to anything.
The timing of this scam email is ironic. Just last Friday in our newsletter, Richard McElroy, who leads our affiliate in California, wrote an article about emails and SPAM and offers this advice:
We wanted to make sure small business owners saw the news from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The SBA is warning small businesses to use caution if they are contacted by firms offering to help them apply for funds available through SBA programs.
