Category: Outsourced Accounting

There’s more than one way to bill customers for your products and services. A statement charge is one of them.

 QuickBooks Online doesn’t require deep knowledge of accounting principles. Still, there are concepts you should understand.

You can track the hours employees work in QuickBooks Online. But if your time-tracking needs are complex enough, you’ll need an integrated app. If your company has a staff and sells services, you know better than anyone that time is money. It’s critical that you track every minute that employees work, as well as those… Continue reading Need Advanced Time-Tracking? Connect QuickBooks Online to An App

If your business pays a lot of bills, you need an efficient system for staying current with them. QuickBooks’ Bill Tracker provides that. Bill-paying may be your least favorite accounting activity. You definitely know how those checks and online payments affect your account balances, but it’s more than that. Staying up to date with your… Continue reading Using QuickBooks’ Bill Tracker

It’s not as much fun as creating invoices, but the bills must be paid. Here’s how QuickBooks helps. We’re in a bit of a transitional period with business bill-paying. Some paper bills still come via the U.S. Mail, however you may also be getting some through email. Others don’t come at all: You might get… Continue reading How to Enter Bills in QuickBooks

Does your business do work for clients over weeks or months? Consider using QuickBooks Online’s progress invoicing. Let’s say you’re doing a job or project for a customer that is going to take a long time, but you don’t want to wait until you’re finished to get paid. Or you’ve agreed to let a customer… Continue reading How to Use Progress Invoicing in QuickBooks Online

The data in your QuickBooks company file contains some of the most sensitive information on your computer. Make sure it’s secure. Your customer list is gold. And those Social Security and bank card numbers in your payroll, client, and vendor records need to be protected from intruders and only viewed by authorized employees.

In this second of a two-part series, we’ll explore how you use the job-related records you’ve created. Last month, we showed you how to start building a foundation for tracking jobs in QuickBooks. We explained that you can use the software’s jobs tools to track income and expenses for any related group of items and/or… Continue reading How Do You Track Jobs in QuickBooks? Part 2

If you purchase several items and services away from the office, QuickBooks Online can help you record them while you’re out and about. QuickBooks Online’s mobile app, available at the Apple App Store and Google Play, can do many of the same tasks that it performs on your office desktop. You can, for example:

Last month, we created product and service records in QuickBooks Online. This month, we’ll explore how they’re used on the site. If you ever did your accounting manually, you probably remember how tired you got of writing or typing the same things over and over. You may have had your customers’ addresses practically memorized, and… Continue reading Using Product and Service Records in QuickBooks Online