Comments on: New Features in QuickBooks 2009

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:35:05 +0000

Charles, this blog isn’t really set up to handle general tech support kinds of question/answer, the Intuit Community Forum is a better place to discuss that. For #1, where are you looking? For #2 – you enter credit card charges in the “enter credit card charges” option in the “banking” menu, and on the “purchased from” line you select a specific vendor. Enter one charge per transaction. The “customer” option in the detail section is to be used if these are billable charges to a customer. You don’t enter a whole credit card payment covering multiple vendors all in one transaction.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:46:30 +0000

Using QB 2009 on XP. With R10 upgrade:
1. am unable to see any customer payments.
2. am unable to split my payment to a credit cd company among the various vendors I made charges to. R10 wants me
to spread it among customers. This means, I would have to define my vendors as customers also. not reasonable.

I don’t think R10 can be removed either….

any susgestions??

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:23 +0000

Alex, unfortunately that is not a simple question, and I don’t have an answer that I can give to you in a short comment. There are discussions and help available through the Intuit Community forum, I suggest that you try that. The multiple currency feature works best when considering sales and accounts receivable – when you get to costs the program becomes more of a chore to use.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:29:55 +0000

Hi Charlie,

I have a question in relation to multiple currencies in the QB Premier 2009 edition, that you briefly touch on above. We are a manufacturing operation based in Indonesia, and all goods produced here are exported to the US to our parent company which sells our goods to US and EU markets. Our parent company sends us operational funds each month for production, and also supplies us with some items which are purchased in the US using US dollars, as well as paying for some items produced in Indonesia in the US using US dollars. My problem is, we need to produce accurate pricing information for the US based on the US dollars expended for all finished goods (jewelry), but how do we do this for materials (items) purchased in the US, as well as items produced here, but paid for in the US by our parent company? At present, our BOM is set up in local currency, as most of our expenses are in Rupiah. Thanks for your help.
Alex

By: bank online

bank online — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:52:53 +0000

thanks for the info you’ve posted, there is just so much info out there and this is such a tiresome topic to research

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:08:38 +0000

Kanoa: Pro can read a Premier file – the only problem is if you try to access a Premier feature in the file with Pro. For example – sales orders are not supported by Pro, so if you have sales orders in your Premier file you won’t be able to access them with Pro.

By: Kanoa

Kanoa — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:38:42 +0000

I’d like to get advice on updating my Quickbooks Premier 2006. I’m currently using QB Premier 2006 and would like to downgrade to Quickbooks Pro 2009. I would like to know if this is possible and if so, will my exsisting information be transferred over safely? Please advise. Thank you for your help! Aloha!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:01:27 +0000

Tracie, perhaps a better place to ask this is in the Intuit community forum. You’ll get a lot more visibility to your question there.

My basic answer to this very common question is split into two parts. First, if you like what you have, if you are sticking with Windows XP, and you aren’t using any of the services that will be discontinued (online banking, emailing of reports/invoices, payroll and so forth), consider sticking with what you have. If you need to move to Vista, need to use a service (emailing of invoices is the common one), are want to take advantage of any of the improved/added features of later versions (there are some good ones, but not every business needs them) then upgrade to QB 2009. As for 2009 and being off line – you can still access the Help file just as before, you just can’t use the new “Live Community” feature if yu aren’t online. However, you can always log in to the Intuit Community forum directly. No problems here. Some people run into some issues with firewalls, but they are usually fixable. I personally don’t consider it to be a downgrade at all, other than for online banking. Just my opinion, others might not agree.

By: Tracie

Tracie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:31:20 +0000

Would like advise from people who have updated from QB pro 2006 through pro 2009. I first started using QB Pro 2006 (in 2006) for my small home business. Loved it. i did not require alot. Infact the program offers much more than i ever used.
However, things change and now my husband is opening a new company. (service based). Anyway, at first we wont require to many special features (still), wont be using online banking, no employees.
I am reading mixed info about QB 2009 actually taking away some of its previous features like the help forum, is it true you cant access the HELP menu unless your online w/ 2009? I am also hearing tha 2006 pro was better than 2008 & 2007 and quite possibly even 2009.
I just dont want to fork out the $$$ for an upgrade thats a “down” grade. then again i am concerned that pro 2006 is three years old.
can anyone give me exprience related info who might have used both? Want the 2009 but afraid of not liking it as well?
Thanks to anyone who replies,
T

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:44:41 +0000

Bugs? Limitations aren’t bugs…

QuickBooks 2009 is pretty much the same as 2008 in this regard. They do let you make copies of items, with the BOM for an inventory assembly, but that is a minor issue.

You may also want to take a look at our manufacturing addon product CCRQBOM, at http://www.ccrsoftware.com/CCRQBOM/CCRQBOM.htm