Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. Blog

The musings of a "maad" Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor/bookkeeper turned software developer!

QuickBooks Time Card Entry and Overtime Calculations – Beyond the Basics

Nancy Smyth | August 25, 2009

In today’s busy workplace business owners and payroll administrators are faced with numerous challenges which cause them to want and need to be able to quickly and accurately enter employee time cards by “crew or group” by “job or project” and by day – because that is how they are done on the jobsite. Because of these situations, they also want software that will automatically calculate and distribute overtime hours worked for all employees on all jobs for any given work week – relieving them of the time-consuming and error-prone process caused by manual calculations and time card entries; this is an area where QuickBooks is lacking in functionality.

Networking computers running different versions of Windows

Nancy Smyth | August 7, 2009

You can get a Windows 7 computer to recognize computers within your network that are running different version of Windows. Could this possibly be a “happily ever after story”?

Windows 7, Vista & XP Machines

Nancy Smyth | August 5, 2009

There is NO UPGRADE path from an XP machine to Windows 7, so you will need to do a clean install……this means that you had better back up all of your data to an external source and I mean ALL of your data, your Word files, your Excel files, your pdf’s any document you’ve ever downloaded from the internet that you would “die” without; because a clean install will erase everything from your hard drive.