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QuickBooks Support and Training Resources
Every year I like to revisit this subject – what kind of resources are available for support and training for QuickBooks? Here is my latest list – many of these are free, but some do have a cost involved. Please add your comments about resources that YOU have found that are helpful.
Mixing Sales Tax Rates in a QuickBooks Invoice
The typical way to work with sales tax in QuickBooks is to have one sales tax item or sales tax group that applies to the entire invoice. In some cases, however, you may have a need to charge different rates to different items in the invoice. Here are some thoughts on how to accomplish this.
QuickBooks 2010 R8
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2010 R8 update to manual update. I have been running it for a week or so and it has been running without problems – although I don’t use some of the applications that it affects. Here is a rundown on what is changed.
QuickBooks Hosting: An Overview
QuickBooks is essentially a desktop program, designed to be installed on your local computer. That is fine if you always work out of your office, and if all of the people who need access to the data are connected to the same local area network, but what if you need “remote” access, via the Internet? One option to consider is QuickBooks Hosting.
What is the QuickBooks TLG File?
When you create a company in QuickBooks there will be several files created. One has a file type of “QBW” – that is your actual company data file. Another that is created has a file type of “TLG”, and that is the source of some confusion as well as some misunderstandings. Let’s review a few facts about this file.
Item Types in a QuickBooks Bill of Materials
QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise provides us with 11 different item types, of which 5 can be used as component items in an inventory assembly. Which should you use, and why? Each of the item types have their own characteristics and uses.
QuickBooks Service Outage – Repeat
Back in June Intuit had a major failure of most, if not all, of their online services. Well, looks like we have a problem again. At this moment, many Intuit web sites (QuickBooks sales, Intuit Community Forum) are down due to what is characterized as a “commercial power failure”. Services are being restored. How long will it take this time?
QuickBooks and Floor Plan Financing
A Floor Plan is a method that a business (such as an auto dealership) can use to finance inventory that they are holding for resale, without having to tie up their own capital in that inventory. This article reviews how you can manage Floor Plan Financing with QuickBooks.
What is the QuickBooks QBDataServiceUser and Do I Need It?
Occasionally I’ll get a query from a security-conscious client who says that they have found a user account that mysteriously appears, called QBDataServiceUser (often with a number appended to the name). They want to know why it shows up and what they should do about it.
QuickBooks Updates and the Home Page Error
Every day that goes by, I learn something new about QuickBooks. Today I’ll pass on some information I learned about the QuickBooks Automatic Update process. It all started with a number of complaints from people who said that their QuickBooks Home Page appeared blank…
