Tracking sales of goods is easy in QuickBooks. Create a sales receipt or an invoice. Pick the product the customer requests along with the quantity and then save the transaction. QuickBooks will adjust the appropriate inventory level and record the purchase correctly. But when you account for services that you have sold, that can get complicated. When you need to charge your customers for labor, consulting, or any service and bill by the hour, it is necessary to set up records for billable time and also track hours spent on each task. Fortunately, both chores are made simple by QuickBooks.

A great habit to start this coming year is to create a routine of doing insightful QuickBooks reports.

Get a handle on sales tax collection and payments with QuickBooks.

Keeping track of individual job costs using QuickBooks Desktop will help you stay ahead of your costs on any job and ensure profitability.

Track your sales by job or customer with QuickBooks Desktop and learn which customers and jobs are the most profitable using QuickBooks Desktop reports.

Here are some suggestions for how to get your books in shape, keep them in shape, and maximize your profits.

When setting up QuickBooks for an existing Kansas City area company, use an expert like Exigo Business Solutions to do the job right the first time.

The new QuickBooks 2019 data file optimization feature lets you significantly reduce files without the loss of any transactional data. See how this will make your work process more efficient...

Exigo Business Solutions has been testing and evaluating pre-release versions of QuickBooks Desktop 2019. Here we give you a snapshot of the 15 features that Intuit has added, improved, enhanced, or modified.

QuickBooks Desktop 2019: The Enhanced IIF Import provides considerable benefits for your business.

Learn how to transfer unused customer credits in Quickbooks Desktop 2019 from one job to another job for the same customer or to unpaid invoices.

Accurate bookkeeping alone does not help you make smart business decisions. You need QuickBooks Advanced Reports to bring the data to life.

The best in-house business intelligence tool for QuickBooks data, hands down, is Clearify QQube.

Too many small business owners only glance at their financial reports to see if there is a profit on the bottom line. But, the purpose of a good report is to provide insights into the financial operation of the business with actionable details.

We at Exigo Business Solutions know that you in the Kansas City area would rather be sending invoices than paying bills. But, such is life. And, with the help of QuickBooks, entering bills can be as painless as possible.

Customized reports will give you detailed insight on how your business is preforming, what needs to be changed and so much more! The question is, do you know how to run the right reports to receive the information you are looking for?

Use memorized transactions templates to eliminate the chance of mistakes. These templates contain most if not all the information that could be repeated at specified intervals, eliminating the need for you to enter the same repetitive data regularly. Here is a step by step guide on how to do it.

There are two primary ways to record income from customers in QuickBooks: Receive Payments and Create Sales Receipts. Do you know when each should be used? Find out the difference here!

Get Paid Faster Using QuickBooks! Are your customers slow about paying their invoices? QuickBooks can help accelerate your receivables.

The invoices and other forms you send out should reflect your company’s attention to detail, accuracy, and consistency. Every opportunity you have to interact with your customers and vendors is critical. Be sure you are being consistent and your forms are reflecting your business in a positive way.

Make certain to complete all of the needed year-end tasks for QuickBooks. Here is how.

Don’t keep doing your receipts, statements, and invoice manually. Use QuickBooks to save time and provide info for reports that help you understand your finances.

Before you can pay bills in QuickBooks, you first have to enter them in a separate window. Click Enter Bills on the home page. Working with vendor discounts and credits in QuickBooks can be tricky, let us walk you through these steps in the bill-pay process. You can pay bills through QuickBooks using multiple payment methods, like check, credit card, and online bank payment. QuickBooks provides three reports to keep you from paying bills late: A/P Aging Summary and Detail, and Unpaid Bills Detail.

Here are some tips you can use to be certain that QuickBooks is doing exactly what you need every day. The Calendar and Reminders functions are ideal for helping to stay on top of your accounting.

Although QuickBooks lets you set up sales taxes on the fly, it is smarter to do the job as part of the setup for any account.