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Intuit Delivers R8 Update For QuickBooks 2010

Chief Mechanic · September 2, 2010 ·

Early today, Intuit announced the delivery of Release 8 for the QuickBooks 2010 series of products, including QuickBooks Pro, Premier, Simple Start 2010 and Enterprise 10.0.

Along with a host of small fixes, the highlights of the changes in Release 8 are:

QuickBooks letter templates are now compatible with Microsoft Word 2010 64-bit for some QuickBooks products
QuickBooks can export reports to Microsoft Excel 2010 64-bit for some QuickBooks products
fix for problems with paycheck print order

It doesn’t look like R8 is the complete fix for Office 2010 compatibility, but it’s a step in the right direction.

For more information, click through the links to read the latest release notes for your QuickBooks product.

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Zoovy Web Store

Chief Mechanic · August 25, 2010 ·

A web-savvy client just drew our attention to a QuickBooks compatible web store, Zoovy.

The company says they support bi-directional communication of invoices, sales receipts, customers, products and inventory with QuickBooks in this Zoovy overview.

For QuickBooks customers looking to increase sales from a web store and not have to re-enter information, Zoovy might be worth a closer look.

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Online Sources For Historical Exchange Rates

Chief Mechanic · August 25, 2010 ·

One of the best online sources we’ve found for historical foreign exchange rates is OANDA’s Historical Exchange Rates. Their data stretches back to 1990, and access is free.

They include multiple rates for each currency and can return data in HTML, ASCII, or CSV formats. A CSV format can be easily imported into Microsoft Excel for further analysis.

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Using the Clean Up Company Data Utility

Chief Mechanic · April 10, 2010 ·

The notion of “spring cleaning” has been around for a long time. In the business accounting world generally and among QuickBooks users specifically, there are several forces that combine to make this a common time of the year for clean up. Financial and tax reporting requirements cause business owners and accountants to take a closer look at their accounting systems after closing the books on the just completed year. For QuickBooks users, Intuit’s service discontinuation policy also comes into play. For QuickBooks 2007 users, the lights on Intuit’s online services will go dark on May 31, 2010, forcing users that need these services to upgrade.

QuickBooks includes a powerful utility to help with the clean up process: the Clean Up Company Data utility. Running this utility is a great way to grab some important benefits:

improve QuickBooks performance by reducing the size of the company file
improve efficiency by reducing the number of list entries QuickBooks users have to scroll through
reduce the chance of assigning a transaction to the wrong list item

Company file size has a big impact on performance in QuickBooks. If you’re running QuickBooks Pro or Premier and your company file is much bigger than 100 Mb, it’s time you investigated the Clean Up Company Data utility. If your QuickBooks lists are filled with stale entries, you’re wasting time on every transaction reaching the right list entry and increasing the risk you choose the wrong one. The time waste and risk is small on each individual transaction, but multiply that over thousands of transactions per year. The costs and the risk of even a few erroneous transactions can become material.

To help get you started on running the Clean Up Company Data utility, we’ve posted 2 new articles in our KnowledgeBase.

The first article is an overview of what the Clean Up Company Data utility does, and the second covers the effects of running the Clean Up Company Data utility.

It’s never to late to get a jump on your spring cleaning.

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