Questions tagged [quickbooks]
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How do I use Keywords in Quickbooks documents?
In Quickbooks (Desktop 2022), you can upload an attachment to almost anything (a client file, an invoice, a payment) and there are several optional fields you can fill out with that attachment:
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Quickbooks XPS Essentials Pack blocking installation
I am trying to install Quickbooks Pro 2015 on my new Lenovo laptop. It was successfully installed on my old Lenovo laptop. Both laptops are running Windows 10. I do not want a QB subscription; I only ...
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Quickbooks prompts for user email and pass when Outlook is already open
Is this the intended design? Quickbooks support wasn't helpful with this issue.
If I send email from quickbooks, and quickbooks launches outlook, it's fine.
If I open outlook, I'm not prompted for ...
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How do I undo a default download program to an unsupported program?
I am not tech-savy.
I was trying to download bank statements via csv file to upload them to quickbooks. I couldn't open them so I chose the default option as Notepad. I then realized that I shouldn't ...
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Quickbooks Premier Installer gives me 11 spaces to enter a 15-character license key
When I run the installer for Quickbooks Premier 2014, 2016, or 2017, it asks me for the license key. I attempt to enter the license key, but each box has one fewer space than it should. In total, my ...
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QuickBooks File Upgrade from 2007 to 2019
I'm looking to upgrade a QuickBooks Pro 2007 file to the Desktop Pro 2019 version. From what I've found on the Intuit forums, it's necessary to either use an upgrade took or trial versions to upgrade ...
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Where does QuickBooks store the password?
I have tried to open QuickBooks Pro 2012 after several years (on a PC laptop, Windows 7), but I don't have the password. I received the license # and pin from QB, and did an uninstall then reinstall ...
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Track amount owed, but request static payment amount
I am working with a new client and our agreement will total $50,000 over the 10 month project. We have agreed on billing in ten $5,000 payments.
However, we (both parties) would like to track ...
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Multiple sales taxes in a sales receipt
I am using Quickbook online. I am trying to add multiple sales tax (Both state and county tax) in a sales receipt. But QBO only allows me to add only one tax. How can I add multiple tax rates in one ...
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Can you add options to a Quickbook Invoice?
Our lab is making a spin-off non-profit, and we were considering using Quickbooks online to help with the expected light load of book keeping. One of the things we would really like to be able to do ...
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How to force XPS Service installation on Windows 10?
QuickBooks 17.0 requires the XPS Service to be installed in order to allow the PDF emailing of invoices.
Unfortunately I am dealing with a workstation that is refusing to work properly in this regard....
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Donation amount into QuickBooks Nonprofit Thank You
I am trying to do what I think should be an easy operation in QuickBooks Premier (NonProfit Edition) 2015. The software has a very nice feature for sending Thank You letters to donors. It is ...
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quickbooks 2017 enterprise on windows server 2016 fail to turn on .net framework 4.6 feature
upon installing QB2017 Enterprise on windows server 20146, QB Database Manager will crash when scanning folders, here is what I can manage to find out.
QB diagnostic:
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Symbolic links vs Junction vs Mapped drive
I want to know what the 'proper' way to have files always be connected and available for use that are on a network drive.
I have a problem with Quickbooks (badly developed, I must say) where it gives ...
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How can I change my merchant account within QuickBooks?
I lost access to the original e-mail used for my Intuit QuickBooks Payments account and had to start fresh with a new account. Unfortunately, the old account is still baked in to my company file and I ...
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Quickbooks 2010 crashes when trying to register (or not register)
I've been running Quickbooks 2010 on Windows 10 for the last year with no problem. After this last Windows 10 update, however, I am no long able to open Quickbooks. It opens to the point where it asks ...
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Prove that a user exported data from Quickbooks
An employee leaving the company has exported our entire customer list and a record of all of the individual product sales to each customer from Quickbooks.
I know that we should have had access ...
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In QuickBooks 2014, how to prepopulate MRU for all users?
i have tried editing the registry and QBWUSER.ini file, but with no luck. No matter what i have done to these two locations i have found filenames, when QBW 2014 is launched, the MRU does not change.
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How can I search for a Customer Payment by the check #?
Using QuickBooks Premier 2014, I can't figure out how to look find a Customer Payment by the check number.
What I've tried:
The "Simple" Find (Ctrl + F) feature also doesn't seem to have the ...
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Where can I view a Bill Payment that only used Credits?
QuickBooks Premier Retail Edition 2012
I wrote a check to a vendor for a pre-payment deposit using Banking->Write Checks.
I enter a Bill Payment using Vendors->Pay Bills, selected a bill and used Set ...
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Is there a website I can go to that will tell me if I am running Internet Explorer in Compatibility Mode?
When I go to http://whatbrowser.org/ in Internet Explorer, it reports IE 10. When I go to the same website using Quickbooks' internal web browser, it reports IE7. I want to know if it is actually IE10 ...
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Alternating row colors in invoices and purchase orders?
Multi-line descriptions for templates in Quickbooks (e.g. invoices, packing lists, purchase orders) tend to "muddle together", despite my efforts to add clarity with makeshift bullet points:
I'm able ...
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QuickBooks (Mac) Chart of Accounts has an empty column with a blue ball heading
QuickBooks 2014 (Mac)
I'm simply looking for an explanation of an empty column in my Chart of Accounts. Its header is nothing but a blue ball. Hovering and clicking this column heading reveals ...
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Quickbooks - How to export a list of invoices with the corresponding customer name?
I am looking to have an excel file with two columns. Column one would be a list of all invoice numbers. Column two would be the name under the corresponding invoice number.
Is there an easy way to ...
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Windows programs mysteriously lost licenses and activations
I have a remote desktop server that recently lost the licenses and activation information for Office, Quickbooks, and the CALs for Remote Desktops all at the same time. I went ahead and re-entered the ...
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Zeroed memory vs. free memory - increasing free memory
I'm working with a QuickBooks add-on that requires a GREAT deal of memory to run. Problem is, QuickBooks is calculating available memory based on "free" memory as listed in RAMMAP. I've got 64GB on ...
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Data field not showing on invoice (QuickBooks 2013 R12)
My QuickBooks just updated to R12, and it seems that one of the data fields as inserted in the layout editor is not showing in on the final invoice, or the preview. It just leaves an empty space.
The ...
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Monitoring Windows Machine/Server
We currently have a business running QuickBooks who complain of sluggishness. A quick view of TaskMan does not show CPU maxed or network port flooded.
The server is 2012 and is a Windows 7 guest ...
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QuickBooks Automation
Does anyone know of any commandline switches that can be used with QuickBooks?
In particular, I am looking for a way to restore a company file without using the menu in QuickBooks.
I've searched all ...
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Need to format PDF file
I have a PDF file that contains a customer list from the program CF Data Systems: Structure.
I need to import this customer data into QuickBooks, but the way QuickBooks imports requires it to be ...
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How to simplify a quickbooks item list
I am using Quickbooks to handle invoicing, purchasing, sales, etc. and so, to facilitate all these processes, I have an 'Items' list; I know, pretty standard stuff, right? Well, here's my problem, ...
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Access company files with Quickbooks multi user mode
We're using Quickbooks enterprise 7.0 contractor edition (I know, it's old...)
We have a computer set up in the office that has the company server/copy of QB install, it's running in multi user mode ...
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Setting up a network share folder on Windows 7
I'm trying to set up a network share folder for Windows 7 so we can use Quick books Enterprise 7.0 in multi user mode. I've tried everything that Quickbooks has said to do and everything in Windows 7, ...
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Quickbooks install Error: 1603
Trying to install Quick books simple start on Windows 8 but I keep getting a Flash/ActiveX error right after entering the product key. Any thoughts?
Screen shots of the errors: http://imgur.com/a/...
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Quickbooks unrecoverable error pro 2012
If I leave Quickbooks open long enough it eventually will crash up to where you have to restart it a few times. Ideas? Here is one of the errors:
quickbooks unrecoverable error pro 2012 00000 19101
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Why do I get error H202 when trying to open quickbooks in multi user mode?
I was able to open quickbooks just fine, but when I try to switch to multi-user mode, it gives me error H202.
Quickbooks Database Server Manager is running correctly on the file server.
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How does QuickBooks handle IIF imports?
I've received a 'template' for an IIF file for Quickbooks transactions, and there's like seventy-bazillion fields in there, lots of which I never even user. It's a tab delimited file, with the ...
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Running batch file from Task Scheduler in Win7 using QODBC and Quickbooks does not work
I have a batch file (.BAT) set up on a Windows 7 PC running QB Premier 2012 that uses a SQL client to connect to a Quickbooks company file through QODBC (latest version) that works fine when run ad ...
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Are .QBB (Quickbooks) files encrypted?
Quickbooks stores its data in password-protected .QBB files. Are these files encrypted with this password? If someone gets .QBB file, do they need the password (either by knowing it or by brute ...
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Which Quickbooks 7 Enterprise Edition Do I have?
I am installing Quickbooks 7 Enterprise Solutions onto a Windows 7 machine for one of our employees, as we are upgrading his computer. As I went through the Quickbooks install, near the end, I'm asked ...
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Quickbooks Free Edition 2010 - How do I subtract vacation or sick time available to an employee?
I'm not sure if this is possible in QB 2010 simple start (I have payroll hooked up to it).
However, when I print a pay stub it shows the accrued vacation & sick time. One of my employees took ...
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Where does Quickbooks for Mac store its registration data?
I'd like to back up the registration of my copy of Quickbooks so in the case of a fresh reinstall I don't have to go through their online registration.
Where is this registration data stored?
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What Features of Quickbooks for Windows are Missing from the OS X version
I'd like to use my computer to keep better track of my financials, and I'd like to use quick books to do this.
I own a Mac, and would rather not run a virtual machine just for my accounting program. ...
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QuickBooks 2008 template formatting
I am trying to create an invoice template, and need to display the first line of the description in bold, with the rest of the description UNDER it, and NOT bold. Is there any way to do this, or do I ...
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Incremental backups in Quickbooks 2005
My church uses Quickbooks 2005. They have a backup to a 512 MB thumbdrive. They have been backing up about every week for the past 18 months. The filesize of the backups have grown from 14 MB to ...
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MICR / Check printing
I want to print my own checks on blank stock from Quicken and QuickBooks. To do so, I need a virtual driver that intercepts the print output from Quicken formats the fields properly, and adds the MICR ...
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Quickbooks 2009 2010
I have configured my bank account within quickbooks to import bank statements. I have wxported the bank statement. Then used the convert process available within QB to convert.
The file name shows ...
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Accounting software for a USA based small tech company [closed]
I just registered my .com business as an LLC.
Which means I need to start paying taxes and do real accounting.
I have an MSDN license so I have access to all Microsoft software.
however it looks like ...
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QuickBooks 2010 w/ iCal
Whenever I select item from "Memorized Transaction List" and then check box "Show in iCal", and then "OK", it won't remember that and nothing appears in iCal. Can someone help me with that?
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What are the alternatives to Quickbooks? [closed]
Quickbooks is very complex and not very user friendly, especially for a small business owner. Are there any other online accountancy programs that would also take care of creating tax papers to be ...