We can't emphasize this enough: QuickBooks' Reminders can prevent countless problems with your finances. How do you know when it's time to pay a bill or follow up on overdue customer payments or print payroll checks? If you're still using a paper calendar and sticky notes and file folders, there's a good chance you're missing some important deadlines on occasion. Manual methods aren't effective enough when you're dealing with … [Read more...]
Working with Downloaded Transactions in QuickBooks Online
Downloading transactions into QBO is the easy part. You still have work to do once they're on board. Its ability to download financial transactions is one of the five best things about QuickBooks Online. Without it, you'd spend a lot of time on tedious data entry, verifying which checks and deposits had cleared and entering new ones. Instead, you can easily connect to your bank and bring in all your activity from the … [Read more...]
Working with QuickBooks Vendor Records
It's important to maintain good relationships with your vendors and suppliers. QuickBooks helps you track your interaction with them. QuickBooks never forgets. That's one of the reasons you use it. You create a record or transaction, enter a note about a customer, or write a check, for example, and the information gets stored in your QuickBooks file. If you don't remember exactly where it is, you can search for it. No more … [Read more...]
Are You Using QuickBooks’ Online Mobile App?
Even if you don't travel for work (but especially if you do), you should explore what QuickBooks' Online mobile app has to offer. You already know how convenient it is to be able to access your company's financial data from any desktop or laptop computer that has an internet connection. Still, there are times when you'd like to be able to complete some of your accounting tasks without firing up a full-blown browser and … [Read more...]
What Is a Vendor Credit and How Do You Record One?
Whether you're getting a vendor credit for a refund or a return, you can record it in QuickBooks Online. When you're dealing with your company's vendors, you're probably accustomed to money flowing in one direction: theirs. Maybe you send them purchase orders and they send you invoices. Or they send you bills and you pay them. Or you walk into a store and buy something your business needs. Sometimes, though, vendors owe you … [Read more...]
