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QuickBooks Comes in Lots of Flavors

QuickBooks comes in lots of flavors. That’s a good thing.
I remember as a kid growing up in Houston going to the Baskin Robbins store on Memorial Drive. 31 flavors! Mint Chocolate Chip or Rocky Road…hmmmm…
QuickBooks users make choices too.
The hot choice these days, at least from Intuit’s point of view, is QuickBooks Online. I just [...]

The 140MB QuickBooks Online Conversion Limit

Thinking about moving from a QuickBooks desktop edition to the QuickBooks Online Edition? Check your file size.
There is a limit on the size of files that can be successfully uploaded/converted to QuickBooks Online. That limit is 140MB. This file size limitation refers to the size of the exportable file that QuickBooks creates in preparation for [...]

It’s Hard to Feel Up When QuickBooks’ Servers Are Down

Starting yesterday afternoon, and continuing into today, some of Intuit’s servers went offline to the outside world.
That means that businesses using QuickBooks Online, Intuit Merchant Services, or QuickBooks Online Payroll were left twiddling their thumbs. Lots of them were not too happy. I read these tweets on Tuesday afternoon:
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“How can QuickBooks Online Edition be [...]

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 [...]

5 QuickBooks Online Tutorials

Cathy Iconis, CPA, has assembled a list of five free online tutorials for QuickBooks Online.

How to bill a customer
How to get paid
How to make a deposit
How to write checks
How to use online banking

Check it out: QuickBooks Online Tutorials (PDF)
Know of any other good online resources for learning QBO?
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How the QuickbooksOnline blog stayed online when all else went down

Did you notice that blog.quickbooksonline.com stayed up even when quickbooksonline.com and quickbooksonline.intuit.com went down?
I’m talking about those few hours on July 14 when many of Intuit’s websites and online servers were unavailable because of a commercial power failure in San Diego.
I tried several Intuit sites and subsites during the episode, and that blog was the only Intuit [...]

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 [...]

Time to Change Editions of QuickBooks?

I remember the day I put on my then-favorite suit — a charcoal pinstripe — and doggone it, it didn’t fit anymore! Oh man! The clothing that used to serve me so well didn’t serve me anymore.
If you are using an edition of QuickBooks that doesn’t seem to fit, don’t worry…there are options.
Moving from desktop [...]

5 Keys to QuickBooks Success

How to make sure your QuickBooks setup, security, site, supervision, and scale are all up to par for your business.