Month: January, 2011

Printing QuickBooks Checks on Blank Stock

If your company has several bank accounts, you can either stock preprinted checks for each of them, or use blank stock for all of them.
PrintBoss Select is software written especially for QuickBooks users to allow printing of QuickBooks checks on blank stock.
How does it work? It basically takes over the check printing function in QuickBooks. [...]

The Case of the Exploding TLG File

We looked at a client’s QuickBooks Enterprise 11 file this week that was mysterious — their TLG file was growing by more than 1GB every day.
But they weren’t entering or importing very many transactions…just a hundred or so per day. So why was their TLG file exploding on a daily basis? The client was having [...]

The QuickBooks Equivalent of Texting While Driving

I recently spoke with a gentleman who lost eight months of data in his QuickBooks file.
It’s not perfectly clear what happened to cause this, but we think the key moment was when he got some kind of message about the file name, and something about ‘overwriting’.  Sounds like the warning you might get when you’re [...]

Am I Using the Right Edition of QuickBooks?

There are several different editions of QuickBooks available. They vary in how well suited they are for different sizes and types of organizations and in the way users access their data.
All of the editions can do basic accounting – check printing, paying bills, processing payroll, invoicing customers — but some are better suited for specific [...]

New Year’s Resolutions? Here Are 7 for QuickBooks Users

Want to get more from QuickBooks in less time? And have fewer problems? OK, repeat after me…

I will reconcile my bank accounts and credit cards in QuickBooks every month
I will review my books with an accountant and listen to their suggestions
I will explore some of the App Center offerings and see if one can them [...]