Recent Articles
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 what happened and what you can do.
QuickBooks Service Outage – Again!
Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water…
on Saturday June 19 a number of the QuickBooks services went out for the second time in a week. This time it probably won’t have the same wide ranging effects as the QuickBooks Service Outage earlier this week, but we all need to be concerned.
QuickBooks Service Outage – Affecting Online Apps
Starting Tuesday evening (June 15th) many Intuit web sites and services became unavailable due to a power outage at their data center. Even though you may be using the Desktop version of QuickBooks, this could have a major impact on your ability to conduct business.
Repair Damaged QuickBooks Files with the QuickBooks Company File Diagnostic Tool
If there is damaged data in your QuickBooks company file it can be difficult (or expensive) to find a remedy. If you can’t open your company file, Intuit has released the QuickBooks Company File Diagnostic Tool, a free program that you may find helpful.
Creating QuickBooks Reports with XpandedReports
QuickBooks holds your company data, and you want to pull info out in a format that YOU want. Unfortunately, you don’t have a lot of control over many reports that QuickBooks can generate. Today I’ll talk about a useful tool that can help you get reports out of QuickBooks with the information you want, using XpandedReports for QuickBooks.
QuickBooks 2010 R7 Update
Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2010 R7 update to manual update. This update is only necessary if you are using Payroll or QuickBooks Merchant Services. I’ll review the changes in this article.
QuickBooks Inventory Analysis with EZ Analytics
Intuit has been promoting a new class of add-on applications that work with your QuickBooks desktop application, but are accessed via the web. In this article I’ll review one of these applications, EZ Analytics for Inventory, an excellent inventory planning and management tool that will work with your QuickBooks data.
FAQ:QuickBooks Inactive Sales Tax Item Still Used?
If you make a sales tax item inactive in QuickBooks (which you might want to do if your tax rates change mid year, as I talk about in this article), you may find that when you add a new customer that this inactive sales tax item is still showing as the default item for the customer. How can you change this?
FAQ:QuickBooks Cannot E-Mail Voided Transactions
A reader blog asked “What can I do if QB does not allow me to save changes to the Voided invoice? When I select “Save & Close” it warns “This transaction is a voided transaction. You cannot e-mail voided transactions”. I am unable to save the voided transaction as it will not close and save the changes
FAQ:Rebuild QuickBooks Data Without Backing Up
On occasion you may find that you need to run the Rebuild Datafunction of QuickBooks (File / Utitlities/Rebuild Data) to correct a problem. This straightens out a number of odd problems that can occur over time. The first thing that QuickBooks will do is to have you make a backup, which is a good thing.
Unfortunately, sometimes the backup procedure will fail due to an error in the data (which is probably why you were doing the rebuild in the first place). What can you do?
