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Why Your QuickBooks File Size is Important and How to Control It

August 2, 2018

For any business, managing your books via QuickBooks is something that is driven by a desire to simplify things. For many people, it just seems simpler to keep all your data in a single file because that way is obviously easier, right? I’d like to take a little bit of time to explain why this method of thinking can be more harmful than you realize; and, ultimately, how you can complicate things beyond your expectations.

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Tax Breaks for Businesses Hiring New Employees

August 1, 2018

Free Resources, Tips & Tricks

If you’re thinking about hiring new employees this year, you won’t want to miss out on tax breaks available to businesses with employees.

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What You Need To Know About Online Sales Tax And The New Supreme Court Ruling

July 31, 2018

Complete the form above to receive a link to watch this Technology Tuesday presentation on-demand. The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of South Dakota, granting the state authority to impose sales tax obligations on out-of-state transactions. What does that mean for remote sellers and how will it impact their business?...

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How to track time in QuickBooks Desktop

July 30, 2018

Free Resources, Tips & Tricks

When you sell a product to a customer, you know it. It goes away, and your inventory count in QuickBooks is reduced by one. This tracking helps you know what is selling and what is not, and it signals when a reorder is due.

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Scaling New Heights 2018

July 30, 2018

Out Of The Box Technology had not one, but two booths at this year’s Scaling New Heights conference. Each booth was focused on Recur360, our advanced recurring invoicing, payments and collection solution. One of our booths was part of the bigger QuickBooks area where we were grouped with last year’s $100K...

Payroll Expenses for Employers

July 25, 2018

Federal law requires most employers to withhold federal taxes from their employees’ wages. Whether you’re a small business owner who’s just starting out or one who has been in business a while and is ready to hire an employee or two, here are five things you should know about withholding, reporting, and paying employment taxes.

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5 Tax Deductions that Disappeared in 2018

July 25, 2018

Under tax reform, taxpayers who itemize should be aware that deductions they may have previously counted on to reduce their taxable income have disappeared in 2018....

How to Plan a Data Migration in 6 Easy Steps

July 24, 2018

Free Resources, Tips & Tricks

From time to time, you may find that you need to replace your QuickBooks company data file. There are a variety of reasons this might happen:

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What are Account Security and MFA Best Practices?

July 23, 2018

Free Resources, Tips & Tricks

One of the many challenges businesses need to stay ahead of is cyber security. Many service providers and their products have added stricter requirements during the account creation and product acquisition stages. However, there are still service providers not having adapted their requirements to growing trends in Internet Security.

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How to Improve QuickBooks Performance

July 19, 2018

If you are seeing slowness when using QuickBooks, there can be a variety of causes and solutions. Evaluating performance issues and what to do about them involves determining your best balance point between following one or more possible paths:

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Extend QuickBooks’ Usefulness with Add-Ons

July 19, 2018

Business Software & Apps

What do you do when an application you are using stops meeting your growing needs in a specific area? You can: a.) find a workaround, b.) switch to different software, or, c.) resign yourself to living without that feature. Fortunately, QuickBooks offers a fourth option: d.) find an integrated add-on...

Because taxpayers are legally responsible for what is on their returns (even if it was prepared by someone else), those who buy into such schemes can end up being penalized for filing false claims or receiving fraudulent refunds.

QuickBooks Custom Reporting Part 2: Putting it all together

July 19, 2018

Welcome to part two of our post on custom reports training. If you haven’t read part one first, I’d recommend checking it out for an overview or refresher on the screens we’ll be going over in this post.

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Five Tax Deductions that Disappeared in 2018

July 17, 2018

Under tax reform, taxpayers who itemize should be aware that deductions they may have previously counted on to reduce their taxable income have disappeared in 2018.

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Another successful IFA Convention is on the books. Our team had a fantastic time in Las Vegas catching up with old friends, seeing clients, and making new connections with franchisors. We truly appreciate the relationships we have made over the years as members of IFA and are looking forward to what’s to come in 2019! From standardized bookkeeping services and top of the line QuickBooks help to a recurring invoice, payment and collections solution that makes collecting royalties a breeze, Out Of The Box Technology is here for your franchise! Contact us today!

Recur360: The Advanced Invoicing, Payments And Collections Solution

July 17, 2018

Recur360 was built for QuickBooks Desktop to replace the existing Memorized Transactions, lack of Automatic ACH/eCheck functionality as well as manual Batch Emailing of invoices. For QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, Recur360 allows you to choose the credit card processor of your choice while still posting all Invoices and Received...

QuickBooks Custom Reporting Part 1: The Basics

July 9, 2018

If you’ve used QuickBooks for a while already, you may have found yourself customizing some of the built-in reports.

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