Tag: intuit

Interview: Joe Williams, Retired QuickBooks Senior Support Rep

Joe Williams, of Piedmont, OK, is one of the biggest voices on the QuickBooks Forums. He just posted his 6,000th answer on the forums, and there is a reason why he knows so much about QuickBooks: He was a veteran QuickBooks support rep for Intuit.
Me: Joe, thanks for talking with us today. You have an [...]

ETA Given for Intuit Services Restoration

Alison Ball at Intuit just tweeted that they expect for services to be restored today at around 2:30 pm pacific time. A number of  Intuit’s websites and online services went down earlier today.
A little earlier, Intuit.com was totally unavailable, but now shows this on their homepage:

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Some Intuit Websites and Services Down

We are getting lots of calls today from people having problems accessing QuickBooks Online and other websites and services on Intuit servers.
Intuit tweeted this morning, saying that they had a commercial power failure and are working to restore services.
As of the time of this post, we are seeing the following websites down:
intuit.com
QuickBooks Online
Intuit Merchant Services
Intuit [...]

More Reliable: QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop?

Last Friday, QuickBooks Online was offline for about a half day. There was quite a bit of Twitter traffic about it — people were frustrated who needed to access their books and couldn’t.
That is the downside of cloud computing: When there’s a problem with the cloud, everybody gets rained on. (Sorry, couldn’t resist that one.)
So [...]

Be More Productive with QuickBooks 2010 Optional Web Apps

QuickBooks 2010 introduced something new: a suite of optional products/services that integrate into QuickBooks. There have been 3rd party solutions available for QuickBooks for years, but the difference here is that these new products/services live on the web.
They are accessible directly within the QuickBooks application, by clicking on the App Center button. You’ll see the [...]

Developing for the Intuit Workplace App Center: Interview with Brian Sweat

Interview with Brian Sweat of Alterity, Inc. about developing inventory applications for QuickBooks. Their latest product, EZ Analytics for Inventory, is part of the Intuit App Center suite of 3rd party solutions.

A phishing story, and how to not get scammed

What phishing is, why it works, and how to avoid being victimized.