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Top 10 things I would change about QuickBooks Pro 2010

For some reason the blog posts about QuickBooks Pro 2010 are the most popular ones on the entire blog.  As I’m doing accounting this morning, here are what I would change.

  1. Remove the advertisements written directly into the program.  Click on “Learn about Payroll options” to see what I mean
  2. Allow better sorting of invoices and estimates, currently the program throws everything at you at once.
  3. Fix the printing problems – there is really no reason why creating a pdf is so error prone.
  4. Allow easier access to templates – they should copy the sadly defunct Microsoft Office Accounting in their use of templates
  5. Split off recurring invoicing and functions, avoid this whole “Memorized” metaphor, it’s simply not accurate. Continue reading →
Accounting / Reviews— No comments
12
Feb 10

Written By Steve French

 

A note about the Stronico blog traffic

As you might expect, most of the traffic comes from Google, and curiously most of the search terms are about problems with QuickBooks.  The How To Fix series is the second most popular.  Happily the search term “Visual Contact Management” is a prominent search term as well.  I’m still debating as to whether or not the photos in the blog posts are of any use or not.

And yesterday was the highest traffic day in the history of the blog.  I’m not sure why, but the middle of the week tends to do far better than other days.

And in case anyone was wondering,  I’ve been building out the public side of the site lately.

 

This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog

Accounting / Marketing / Stronico— No comments
03
Feb 10

Written By Steve French

 

How to fix Print to PDF problem in QuickBooks 2010 – Version Two

The Problem: QuickBooks 2010 refuses to print to pdf when you attempt to send an invoice on Vista 64 bit.

The Cause: Quickbooks 2010 on Vista 64 bit does not work well.

The Solution: Close all programs, go to the Task Manager and make sure that Outlook is not open in the Processes.   Reopen QuickBooks Pro 2010 and try printing the invoice to pdf again.  I have no idea why this works, and I have yet to single out which program is causing QuickBooks to malfunction, but that does seem to fix it.

 

This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog

Accounting / How To Fix— No comments
30
Jan 10

Written By Steve French

 

How to fix Quickbooks 2010 printing problem on 64 Bit Windows, (Error Code -30)

I intended the focus of the “How To Fix” posts to be Silverlight, but as I’ve encountered other problems while setting up the business, I’m posting those. The rule I established is “If it takes more than 15 minutes to fix, it gets documented” so here we go.

The Problem: You finally get Quickbooks 2010 installed and your old data migrated, and you get the “Printer not activated, error code -30” error window when sending an invoice, pictured below.

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If you Google the error messages you will see that there are many, many reasons this error can occur.

The Cause: In my case, this was due to running Vista Ultimate 64 Bit. I assume it is the same on Windows 7 64 Bit or Vista Business 64 Bit. The cause is the pdf driver for Quickbooks not working with 64 bit Windows.

The Solution: You go to this QuickBooks help page and change a large number of properties. Why? Who knows, but that solved the problem for me. Intuit did not include any warnings about 32 vs 64 bit differences in their program, to their shame.

 

This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog

Accounting / How To Fix— 3 comments
03
Dec 09

Written By Steve French

 

At long last QuickBooks will work

After recreating an XP 32bit Pro installation on two different drives, I finally get QuickBooks 2010 to work on my machine. Now to actually use it and see if it is the fun everyone tells me it is.

 

This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog

Accounting— No comments
01
Dec 09

Written By Steve French

 

QuickBooks Conversion tool will not work with 64 bit Windows, or Accounting software wants to kill me

First Microsoft discontinues Office Accounting 2009 a mere four months after I install it and spend 40 hours trying to get it working over the network with XP. Then I make the move to QuickBooks due to this press release, and discover that their oh so magnificent data conversion tool will not work with either Vista 64 bit or Windows 7 64 bit. I now have to wrangle one of the old computers from the closets, do a clean install of 32 bit vista on that, install both Quickbooks and Office Accounting on that computer, convert that over on there, and then move the Quickbooks file to one of the two 64 bit computers I have here in the house. Such joy. No wonder I hate accounting.

 

This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog

Accounting— 11 comments
19
Nov 09

Written By Steve French

 

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