If this happens to be your first encounter with Technology Tuesdays, we were adopted into it recently. It’s exciting to be part of this, as this year has been dubbed “The Year of Out Of The Box”. What this means is the webinars offered weekly are centered around us, products & services we offer; and products we utilize ourselves!
We look at restoring QuickBooks Desktop Statement Writer information in QuickBooks, after restoring a portable file. We observe, to start, the recovery process is applicable to situations where your data will have to be moved to another workstation. We explain why, here.
Last time, we covered how to create and send a portable file in QuickBooks Desktop; and how to restore it when called upon. We also discussed what is brought in, and what is not, when a portable file is restored. Though addressing the restoration of items not brought in is initially daunting, knowing where things are located mitigates this. We will cover restoring each, on a blog by blog basis – starting with company letters in QuickBooks Desktop.
Errors and other unexpected issues in QuickBooks can cause a lot of trouble, and in some cases, they can be a huge pain to try and diagnose to find a root cause. Luckily, there’s a fantastic troubleshooting technique we can use to try to narrow down what the cause of an issue is, which may save you a lot of time on the phone with support agents, even if you can’t fix the issue yourself.
Last month, we learned about getting QuickBooks ready for time-tracking by activating it in Preferences and creating a record for a service item. This month, the focus is on using that record in the two different ways you will be using it in QuickBooks: to pay employees for their hourly work and to bill customers for services.
Sometimes, you find that your business needs to keep track of more information about items, customers, vendors, or employees than QuickBooks has available fields for. Not everyone needs the same information, so it makes sense to be able to track what’s important to you. For situations like this, there’s a solution in the form of custom fields. These are fields that you can add to several of your lists, specifying what they’re for, and what type of data they can hold. You can even choose whether they’ll be required when creating a list element or a transaction.
Every opportunity you have to interact with your customers and vendors is critical. How you present yourself reveals a lot about you. Are you efficient and friendly over the phone, in person, or in email? Do you handle order and payment issues quickly and carefully?
For many businesses, invoices are one of the most important types of transaction for tracking sales in QuickBooks. Full of detailed options for tracking different information, and highly customizable, invoices allow you to track what your customers owe you for the products and services you sell.
The sales tax adjustment feature in QuickBooks doesn’t adjust the individual sales tax item. You must create a zero cost Sales Receipt or Credit Memo depending on the plus/minus adjustment needed. The details are in the article below.
Are you still debating on upgrading to the newest offering of QuickBooks Desktop? Think your current version of QuickBooks is working perfectly fine for you? Are you aware of all the benefits and features that have been added to QuickBooks since 2017?