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Whether you’re totally new to QuickBooks or just new to QuickBooks for Mac, we’re glad you’re here. Change isn’t always easy, so we’ve created Square One just for you. This is where you get started with QuickBooks for Mac.

New to QuickBooks?

You’re probably wondering where to start. Here’s some directions for you.

First, go to New to QuickBooks for advice on how to get started.
Check out the articles and videos here on Little Square for ideas about where to go next.
We also have a comprehensive User’s Guide you can look through that has great information getting started with QuickBooks. You can also access this ebook in QuickBooks. Choose Help > User’s Guide.

Switching from Windows?

If you’ve switched from QuickBooks for Windows to QuickBooks for Mac, you probably have two big questions.

Upgrading?

Welcome back! You’re probably wondering about the new features for QuickBooks for Mac.

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So many choices, Part 2: Vendor transactions and more

January 19, 2012 By Shelly King 12 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Bills, Did you know?, Featured Articles, New to QuickBooks, Paying Others, Purchase orders, Square One, Taxes, Vendors Tagged With: accounting software, bank, banking, bill payment, Bills, checks, cheque, credit card, credit card charge, credit cards, deposit, finance, general journal entries, intuit, item receipt, payment systems, quickbooks, sales tax, transaction, transactions, transfer funds, vendor, vendor pay, Vendors

So many choices, Part 1: Customer transactions

January 11, 2012 By Shelly King 16 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Customers and jobs, Did you know?, Estimates, Extending credit, Featured Articles, Getting Paid, Invoices, New to QuickBooks, Receiving payment, Sales receipts, Square One, Statements Tagged With: order forms, sales forms, transactions

Video: Keyboard shortcuts for entering names and numbers

November 1, 2011 By Shelly King 7 Comments

Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to enter names and numbers quickly and efficiently. With most software programs, I tend to look for keyboard shortcuts to speed things up, and Quickbooks is no exception. If you’re not currently using keyboard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Did you know?, Featured Articles, QuickBooks Essentials, Square One, Switching from Windows, Switching from Windows, Tips and Tricks, Tips and tricks, Videos Tagged With: business, computing, easy keyboard, human interest, intuit, keyboard, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, learning keyboarding, mac, mac keyboard shortcut, quickbooks, shortcut, tutorial video, used keyboards, user interface techniques, video tutorials

Video: Receiving payments in QuickBooks 2012

October 19, 2011 By Rohini Venkatraman Leave a Comment

Your customer has sent you a payment. Sweet! Now it's time to record that payment in QuickBooks. In this video, I'll show you how to use Receive Payments to enter money a customer has paid you. Video script: Hi, I’m Ro with the QuickBooks for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Getting Paid, Getting paid, Let us show you, New to QuickBooks, Receiving payment, Receiving payments, Square One, Videos

Video: Creating a sales receipt in QuickBooks 2012

October 17, 2011 By Rohini Venkatraman 2 Comments

You're probably already familiar with sales receipts. Just about anytime you buy anything, you get a record of what you've bought and what you paid for those items. In QuickBooks, you can create sales receipts for your customers to track a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Getting Paid, Getting paid, Let us show you, New to QuickBooks, New to Quickooks, Sales receipts, Sales receipts, Square One, Square One, Switching from Windows, Switching from Windows, Upgrading, Upgrading, Videos

Bought QB2011 on 7/15/11 or later? You get QB2012 for free!

October 3, 2011 By Shelly King 39 Comments

With the release of Lion, we're aware that a lot of you may have recently upgraded to QuickBooks 2011 for Mac. And now we've just released QuickBooks 2012 for Mac. "Doh!" you may say, shaking your first at us. OK, let's be realistic. You're probably … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Did you know?, Featured Articles, Square One, Upgrading Tagged With: lion, QuickBooks 2011, QuickBooks 2012

Video: Searching your data in QuickBooks 2012

September 26, 2011 By Rohini Venkatraman Leave a Comment

Search in Quickbooks 2012 for Mac is a great feature you can use to find anything in your company file. In this video, I'm going to show you how it works. Video script: Hi, my name is Ro, and I'm on the QuickBooks for Mac team. Today I'm going to … [Read more...]