Category: General Tips

QuickBooks 2020 R16 Released

| December 22, 2022

Intuit has released QuickBooks 2020 R16, which includes changes in 1099 forms, changes that primarily affect users who use any QuickBooks add-on software, and a few other items. This update will be available via automatic updates. You can also go to the QuickBooks Update site to download the patch. QuickBooks 2020 R16 Add-On Changes There […]

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QuickBooks Desktop Release Numbering

| December 1, 2022

Let’s talk about QuickBooks Desktop Release numbering and how to understand the impact of the release number on how you run your business using QuickBooks. Intuit releases updates to each year’s version of QuickBooks Desktop throughout the year, to fix bugs and change features. You can see the year and release number of your product […]

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QuickBooks 2020 R11 Bug Fix Release

| February 25, 2021 | 0 Comments

We are at the point with QuickBooks 2020 where the new releases slow down, and you get small bug fixes that might be important to you if you use the particular feature that was affected. So here we are, Intuit has released QuickBooks 2020 R11, which fixes a few bugs and makes some minor user […]

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Fixing QuickBooks Bugs

| January 8, 2018 | 43 Comments

It would be fun to have a comprehensive list of QuickBooks bugs, at least as far as the desktop product. Want to help? Over the years I’ve tried to build a list like that, on several occasions. I never keep up with that, though, because it tends to be an exercise in frustration. When Intuit […]

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QuickBooks 2016 R12

| November 17, 2017 | 1 Comment

Intuit has released QuickBooks 2016 R12, which should be available via automatic updates, or you can go to the QuickBooks Update site to download the patch. This update isn’t huge, which is what I would expect this late in the version’s life cycle. If any of these issues affect you, go ahead and install the […]

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Too Many Subscription Emails? RSS Can Help

| March 18, 2013

It should be no surprise to anyone that I’m addicted to blogs. After all, I write articles for several blogs myself (Accountex Report, Practical QuickBooks, Intuit Small Business Blog,  California Wildflower Hikes). I try to follow over 40 different blogs on many subjects – QuickBooks, local news, wildflowers and natural history, blogging tips, and many […]

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QuickBooks News for November

| December 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

There’s a lot of information published about QuickBooks in many different blogs (and other sources) – here’s a rundown of some of the more interesting things I came across in November (some from me, some from other writers). See the articles for details! QuickBooks and Windows 8: At this time Intuit doesn’t officially support Windows […]

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QuickBooks Training Videos

| June 19, 2012 | 9 Comments

I’m always on the lookout for good sources for QuickBooks training, and my friend Woody Adams of Radio Free QuickBooks and Intuit has a wonderful website with a wide variety of QuickBooks training videos that he has collected over the years.

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Can I Get a List of New Customers from QuickBooks?

| June 12, 2012 | 10 Comments

Here’s a common question – “How can I get a list of customers that I’ve added to my QuickBooks company file this last month”. There are a couple of ways of doing this, let me show you a trick.

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