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Year end guide from QuickBooks (for the hard stuff)

January 24, 2010

The end of the year means a lot of things.  Taking down Holiday decorations, renewing a gym membership…and taxes. We just told you about the Turbo Tax (we do it for you) option. But…you can (and probably should) be aware of what has to be done and by when.
Check out the End of the Year [...]

Have a website? Improve your website conversion rates

January 11, 2010

We know from our customer research that a lot of you have websites to promote your business. And…a good bunch of you are actually web designers using QuickBooks Online to manage your business.
The QuickBooks Online team just found a cool tool from google that offers a quick and dirty analysis of your website through the eyes [...]

We’re sharing ours…what’s your resolution?

December 27, 2009

It’s that time of year.  It comes around just after you’ve eaten all the holiday food and spent some serious holiday dough.  It’s the universal time to make resolutions about the upcoming year.
We started asking around the office and found out that the QuickBooks Online team is pretty good at making resolutions.  We’re excited to [...]

Using Internet Explorer? Time to switch to FireFox or upgrade to IE8

December 17, 2009

Recently, we launched a new feature called Customer Center that mostly received kudos except for one area – performance. After doing some investigation, we found that lots of our customers are using Internet Explorer.
Unfortunately, Internet Explorer is pretty slow in Javascript processing and Customer Center uses quite a bit of JavaScript to provide interactivity. [...]

I Lost My Number…Can I have Yours?

November 30, 2009

“To be successful in any business, you need to develop a feel for the numbers.  You need to get a sense of the relationships between them, see the connections, figure out which ones are especially critical and have to be monitored accordingly.  Numbers run businesses.” – Norm Brodsky, The Knack
These wise words come courtesy of [...]

The 2 things I learned from running a small business

November 12, 2009

I knew it was time to get a better system when I forgot my company’s excel sheet with all the day’s appointments at home. I was forced to cancel all the appointments…without calling and telling the customers beforehand.  There couldn’t have been an airplane skywriter that told me clearer:  It was time to make a change.
I was running [...]

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 Online [...]

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 you [...]

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 [...]