Month: September, 2010

Multiuser Capacity Changes in QuickBooks 2011

Intuit has put new multiuser capacity restrictions on the 2011 versions of QuickBooks Pro and Premier editions.
QuickBooks Pro 2011 can now have up to three simultaneous users.
QuickBooks Premier 2011 can now accomodate up to 5 simultaneous users.
Previous versions of Pro and Premier allowed as many simultaneous users as there were installed product licenses, and you could [...]

How to Make Sure You Are Opening the Right Company File

Have you ever tried to open an existing company file in QuickBooks and been confused? You see multiple copies of your file and don’t know which is the right one?
Or worse, you realize that your data has a “hole” in it, representing a month or more of data entry? You know you entered July’s entries, [...]

Are Smartphones Indispensable for Small Business?

I love my smartphone because when I’m not behind my desk, I can still do almost everything associated with my job.

Check and reply to business emails quickly
Take business calls, forwarded from my main desk phone number
Manage user accounts and jobs
Admin our QuickBooks user forum
Moderate blog comments, and reply to them
Tweet, reply, retweet, follow — anything [...]

You’re Invited to Join the QuickBooks Forums

If you like to interact with other QuickBooks users and some experts too, come join the QuickBooks Forums.
It’s the largest, most active independent QuickBooks online community out there, with about 45,000 members. That means more interaction and information for you to draw from.
It’s a great venue to ask questions, get and give advice, find FAQs, [...]

Details announced about new QuickBooks 2011 version

Intuit today announced details about the upcoming QuickBooks 2011 version:

Will go on sale September 27
Includes new batch invoicing feature for repetitive charges
Integrates with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail for emailed invoicing
Customer snapshot gives quick look at a customer’s history and stats
QuickBooks Connect offered as new separately billable service to access some QuickBooks company data through the web or [...]

Three things you need to know about your inventory (guest blog)

There are three important things you need to know about your inventory to be successful in inventory management:
1. How much inventory you have right now. Do you know how many products you have on hand? If not, can you find out how many in a few seconds or would it be a big ordeal to [...]

Bear spray, QuickBooks, and your computer

When my family camped in Yellowstone National Park last month, we were camping in bear country.
Unfortunately, there have been some bad bear incidents in Yellowstone this summer.
A friend of mine let me borrow his bear spray for our trip. Bear spray is like personal-defense pepper spray, except it’s grizzly bear strength. I took the spray [...]