http://rustler.freeblogit.com Stuff I have figured out the hard way about QB 2006 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:25:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Occasionally I need to write myself a note concerning an order, something I need to do in addition to what ever the order is about.  But I don't want the note to be printed on the invoice. This only works if you use a sales order before creating an invoice. Create ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/08/27/invoice-note-to-self/ Occasionally you pay for an order of inventory items ahead of time and when the shipment arrives there are missing items that will not be shipped at all.  When you paid for the purchase a couple of things happened.  You told QB to increase the inventory asset account by the ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/08/27/paid-for-inventory-but-not-received/ Create a PO for the individual or company that places items on consignment with you. List the items, the price you will pay for them, and the quantity. These should be items in your non-inventory item list.  Set the COGS account to COGS or maybe better would be a sub account ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/08/25/consignment-sales/ Sometimes the cost basis of inventory needs to be increased.  The most common reasons are for businesses who hold what is considered an asset for resale, autos, houses, etc. Let's use a house as an example.  The cost to buy the house is its cost basis. But then you need to ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/08/25/increasing-cost-basis/ So I am wandering around the help file (yea I was bored) and I find that QB can print a deposit slip. The top one third goes to the bank, and the bottom is a concise list of each item. Pretty neat! Then I keep reading and ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/07/28/printing-a-deposit-slip/ So I see this all the time, someone wants to use QB while on the road and yet still allow the office to use QB, and then merge the changes when they get back. For 2008 Premier or higher, same process should work for previous years First you have to have QB ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/07/27/use-qb-on-the-road/ Suppose you sell 8 items and want to discount the sale. The sales tax collected should be on the total of the items less the amount of the discount. Enter all your items that are being sold, then enter a subtotal item. Then on the next line enter ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/07/23/selling-disc-sales-tax/ I am not in any way familiar with this process, but Charlie is the resident expert. He has a how to, nice write up Charlie - well done, in his blog. Click the link (opens a new window) How to use excel http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/07/23/using-excel-for-import/ QB only allows you to use markup. Markup is where you tell QB to increase the cost of an item by x-percent to determine the selling price. Margin is just adding x-amount of dollars to the cost to determine the selling price. http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/07/22/margin-vs-markup/ When you create an invoice for taxable items QB prints the sales tax on the invoice, but when the invoice is non-taxable QB prints nothing to show that the invoice is non-taxable. I guess the omission of the sales tax entry is enough in Intuits opinion. If you need or ... http://rustler.freeblogit.com/2008/07/19/non-taxable-invoices/