All Entries in the "Product Reviews" Category
Exporting QuickBooks Transactions with Transaction Pro Exporter
QuickBooks uses a “closed” database that you cannot access directly. If you want to extract transaction data, such as invoices or checks, you have to use a third party tool to extract the data (or get the SDK/ programming toolkit and write your own program). Today I’ll review the Transaction Pro Exporter from Baystate Consulting, which is an excellent program for extracting transactions from QuickBooks.
Using Online Backups to save your QuickBooks Data
In my Backing Up QuickBooks Data article I talked about the importance of a good backup plan for your business. Today I’ll talk a bit about one portion of a good plan, using online backups.
When I’m hired to evaluate a business and their QuickBooks procedures one of the first things I look at is how they are making backups of their data. Not just their QuickBooks data, but all important electronic business information. All too often I find that there is no comprehensive backup and recovery plan in place. Some businesses have a plan, but they aren’t being implemented correctly. The most common reason is that backing up data is time consuming, complicated and a major hassle to perform. That is why I like online backups - they are simple to implement and don’t take a lot of effort to run.
Creating QuickBooks Invoices with Adobe Acrobat Pro
One of the intriguing “new features” that Intuit lists for QuickBooks 2009 is the ability to work with “Adobe Acrobat Forms”. This is a way to use Adobe Acrobat Pro 9
Review: Keyword Search for QuickBooks
You have a lot of important business information in your QuickBooks company file, and it is very important that you have the ability to search through this information quickly. Today I’m going to talk about a free plug-in product that may be able to help you.
Review: PayPal Payment Request Wizard
Many businesses (particularly those that sell items on the Internet) use PayPal to process payments. If you are using PayPal but aren’t using an integrated web store application, PayPal offers a Payment Request Wizard that integrates with QuickBooks to let you send invoices to your customers with a PayPal payment button. Today I’ll take a look at this program.
Review: Data Transfer Utility
There are times when you want to move information from one QuickBooks company file to another. You might want to merge records from your salesperson’s laptop to your desktop company file. Perhaps you want to set up a new company with just the open records. QuickBooks doesn’t make this an easy chore. Today I’ll discuss an excellent third-party tool that can help you with this task.
