What Are the Changes To QuickBooks Attached Documents For 2012?

Coinciding with the release of QuickBooks 2012, Intuit is making a variety of changes to QuickBooks Attached Documents, a cloud-based document storage system that has been available as an extra-cost add-on for users of QuickBooks 2010 and QuickBooks 2011. For QuickBooks 2010, Intuit’s document storage feature was called QuickBooks Document Management, and the changes impact [...]

QuickBooks 2012 Coming By September 26th

Intuit has announced that QuickBooks 2012 and Enterprise Solutions 12.0 will ship on September 26, 2011. That’s about 1 week later than last year, but it still gives users plenty of time to get the new version up and running before the end of year. We’ve already downloaded the software and have begun to prepare [...]

Our New Forum, Part 2

We’re in the early stages of setting up a forum for new questions that aren’t covered by our QuickBooks KnowledgeBase. We had an active forum before but found the format wasn’t ideal for the material we wanted to present, so we closed it. Still, we missed the opportunity for easier interaction that it offered, so [...]

QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts

QuickBooks includes a variety of keyboard shortcuts to make your use of the program easier and faster. We’ve compiled them into a single sortable and searchable list, shown below. All of these shortcuts are based on QuickBooks for Windows. Here are a few pointers on making the best use of keyboard shortcuts: Our list is [...]

How Do I Unattach a Previously Attached Document In QuickBooks Attached Documents?

From time to time, you may find that you’ve attached a document to the wrong list item or transaction when using QuickBooks Attached Documents. It’s easy to unattach a previously attached document in QuickBooks Attached Documents once you consider some Attached Documents basics: Unless you want to remove a document from online storage, you can [...]

QuickBooks Attached Documents

QuickBooks Attached Documents

With the introduction of QuickBooks 2011, Intuit rolled out a new cloud-based document storage service: QuickBooks Attached Documents. QuickBooks Attached Documents allows a QuickBooks user to attach an unlimited number of documents to a transaction or list item and store the attachments on Intuit’s secure servers.  It replaces the Document Management service introduced with QuickBooks [...]

What Is the Source of Intuit’s Foreign Exchange Rates?

The source of foreign exchange rates in QuickBooks is Wall Street On Demand, a company that provides data and tools to the financial services industry. The question on data source for foreign exchange rates often arises out of a misunderstanding of how rates downloaded by QuickBooks should be used. These rates are only a guide, [...]

What Is an Inventory Part?

An Inventory Part is one type of Item and is maintained on the Lists->Item List menu selection. See our article on all of the Item types supported by QuickBooks for more information. Generally speaking, Items are designed to pre-fill invoicing and purchasing forms. An Inventory Part represents an item that your firm keeps on hand [...]

Have a Question Not Covered By a Topic In Our KnowledgeBase?

We’ve now completely moved our KnowledgeBase content from a forum format to an article-based approach, which offers better search capabilities. Unfortunately, dropping the forum format forced a change in how you might pose a new question. A forum can allow anyone to make a new post, but that’s not possible right now using our new [...]

How Do I Change the Number of Companies Displayed When Starting QuickBooks?

By default, QuickBooks shows the most recent 2 company files you’ve opened in QuickBooks, but this number can be easily changed. The program can display up to 20 companies. The most direct way to change it is to first open a company file, and then click on the Set number of previous companies… on the [...]

How Many Vendor Addresses Does QuickBooks 2011 Support?

QuickBooks 2011 now supports 2 vendor addresses; prior versions of QuickBooks supported only 1. The Shipped From Address field is used on vendor purchase orders. The Billed From Address is used on bills and bill credits, and this address will appear when printing a check to the vendor. In effect, the Billed From Address is [...]

What’s the New Paid Stamp For QuickBooks 2011?

For QuickBooks 2011, Intuit improved the Paid stamp to reflect the date the customer invoice was paid, as shown in the screenshot below. Unfortunately, a Paid stamp is also applied to vendor bills, and that stamp does not reflect the date the bill was paid.