For Accountants: Get to Know QuickBooks for Mac Users

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Should you stick with QuickBooks for Windows?

QuickBooks for Windows and Mac offer the same basic set of financial management tools, but have some differences as well. Depending on what features you've been using on QuickBooks for Windows, a switch to QuickBooks for Mac may not be right for … [Read more...]

Online Banking: Updating your register

When you use online banking, you either import or download transactions from your financial institution. Some of those transactions may already be in QuickBooks, but some may not be. Updating your register means: You add any transaction from your … [Read more...]

Online banking: Renaming rules for payee names

When you download or import transactions, the names of payees in your downloaded transactions may not match the names of payees in QuickBooks. That means you need to go through and match each one with a payee in QuickBooks and that can burn a lot of … [Read more...]

Online banking: Using Web Connect

Using Web Connect, you can manually import transactions from your online banking account. First you need to download a transaction file (.qbo) from your financial institution's website. Then you import that file into QuickBooks. To use Web Connect, … [Read more...]

Online banking: Tips and troubleshooting

Here are some tips to help you fix the most common problems with online banking in QuickBooks. Setting up online banking What do I do if my financial institution is not listed?If you don't see your financial institution name when setting up … [Read more...]

Video: Renaming rules and Add Multiple with online banking

If you've ever checked a bank statement or downloaded transactions into QuickBooks, you've probably noticed transactions with extra numbers and letters. Some are dates, others are transaction numbers to give a couple of examples. Sorting through this … [Read more...]

Video: How QuickBooks can help you remember things

QuickBooks® has two ways to remind you of the things you need to do: reminders and iCal. Reminders list Using reminders. Say you've entered a bill or put something on your QuickBooks® To Do list. These things can then go onto your Reminders list. … [Read more...]

So many choices, Part 2: Vendor transactions and more

This article is Part 2 of a two-parter on the transactions you can use in QuickBooks. Part 1 covers customers. This one covers vendors. With vendors, it's all about spending money. You need stuff to run your business, whether that's new inventory … [Read more...]

So many choices, Part 1: Customer transactions

This article is Part 1 of a two-parter on the transactions you can use in QuickBooks. Part 2 covers vendors and other transactions. This one covers customers. QuickBooks has lots of different transactions you can use to run your business. Which … [Read more...]

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