Category: General Tips
Problem Restoring QuickBooks Backups–Read Only Files (Quick Tip)
When you are restoring a backup copy of a QuickBooks file you often want to restore it in the same place that it existed before. Sometimes QuickBooks will refuse to replace the existing copy – saying that the file is set to read-only. This may be frustrating, but it usually is a simple thing to [...]
QuickBooks ProAdvisor Training Resources
In my article on QuickBooks Support and Training Resources I presented a list of my favorite books, blogs, web sites and tools for getting training and support for QuickBooks. One aspect that I didn’t expand on was support for ProAdvisors and financial consultants, through webinars and conferences.
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.
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Running QuickBooks During Intuit Server Outages
In the past week many QuickBooks users have been faced with problems with various aspects of QuickBooks due to the Intuit Server Outages. Since many people don’t understand why and how this impacts their business, and didn’t know how to get around these problems, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about [...]
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