Archive for October 2009

If you have to call…

October 28, 2009

We love hearing from customers, and helping you run your business is part of our DNA.  We hope you don’t feel it necessary to call us for help, we try to make QuickBooks Online as easy to use as possible, but sometimes you do need to pick up the phone. When you call into QuickBooks [...]

The Art of Being a Great Product Manager

October 27, 2009

In a very generic sense, product managers are often considered the liaison between the customers and the engineers. “I deal with the customers so the engineers don’t have to.”  - Tom Symkowski (Office Space, 1999) But, in truth, there is a lot more to being a product manager than being a pass through of customer [...]

Feeding your ideas back to the product development team

October 23, 2009

Are you interested in making QuickBooks Online a better product?  It’s not that hard to do.  All you have to do is submit feedback.  Tell us what you like about QuickBooks Online.  Tell us what you don’t like about QuickBooks Online.  Tell us what QuickBooks Online could do to make your job easier. Intuit has [...]

Save time with calculator shortcuts for smart fields

October 16, 2009

Do you ever use a calculator when you enter invoices in QuickBooks Online?  Another little-known shortcut we have  is our smart fields, which act as calculators when you enter amounts in QuickBoooks Online. For example, on an invoice page below, in the amount field, you can enter simple mathematical expressions. The value is calculated when [...]

Some keyboard shortcuts for writing checks

October 14, 2009

Writing checks probably isn’t your favorite thing to do–accepting checks from customers is a lot more satisfying.  If you do have to write out a lot of checks, a little-known but time-saving feature in QuickBooks Online can make the process a bit easier.  When you open up a new check in QuickBooks Online, dates are [...]

Accountant of the Month: Brian Wendroff

October 8, 2009

This month we had a chance to catch up with Brian Wendroff, a managing partner at Wendroff & Associates. Despite what is a tough economy for many firms, Wendroff & Associates, a fast-growing Washington, D.C accounting firm, has expanded its practice by delivering exceptional service, focusing on end results for its clients, and building a [...]

Grace Hopper Celebration

October 5, 2009

One of the great things about working at Intuit is that sometimes, you get an email from a friend at work asking you if you want to go to something awesome for free. I got one such email a couple of months ago, and as a result, I spent Thursday and Friday of last week [...]