Create Keyboard Shortcuts

You can create your own keyboard shortcuts to help you save time while navigating through QuickBooks. This may be especially useful if you find yourself opening specific windows more often than others. Here's how you do it: Launch QuickBooksGo … [Read more...]

Video: Adding or changing an opening balance

When you first created an account, you may have overlooked entering an opening balance or entered the wrong balance. In this video, you'll see how you can change or add an opening balance for an … [Read more...]

Customizing your company file’s appearance

You like it the way you like it. That's cool. You can customize QuickBooks so that its default display shows what's most important to you. Changing the desktop You can save your QuickBooks windows arrangement so that when you return to your company … [Read more...]

What’s new in QuickBooks Desktop for Mac 2020?

We've done a lot of work for 2020. Take a peek: Dark Mode: QuickBooks is now compatible with Dark Mode, offered in macOS Mojave (10.14).Modernized Reporting: Reports now use a refreshed structure that improves customization, usability, … [Read more...]

Importing contacts into QuickBooks for Mac

If you've been in business for a while before buying QuickBooks for Mac, you probably have contacts saved in Address Book or a spreadsheet. In QuickBooks for Mac, you can import your contacts so you don't have to enter them manually. It'll save you a … [Read more...]

Sharing your QuickBooks file across networks

Have you ever wanted to give your bookkeeper or accountant access to your QuickBooks file while you're still using it? Maybe you want to be able to work on QuickBooks while you’re away from the office. There's a solution! It's called LogMeIn … [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...]

QuickBooks and your business: Farm, ranch, or other agriculture business

[Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles we'll be publishing about using QuickBooks for Mac for specific types of businesses. Stay tuned for more articles in this series. - Shelly King, Managing Editor] When you spend your days … [Read more...]

Time sheets and progress invoicing

Progress invoicing is a great way to invoice your customers over time for work you do for them. And many times, that work involves billable time. So how do you apply that billable time to a progress invoice? A couple of things to understand Before I … [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...]

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