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

QuickBooks 2010 – Email Marketing, No Windows Vista or 7 Support

Nancy Smyth | October 8, 2009

Email Marketing is something else that Intuit has built into QuickBooks 2010, so I went to check it out. Requires Internet Explorer and it doesn’t support Windows Vista or 7. How can this be?

QuickBooks 2010 – New Customizable “Favorites” Menu

Nancy Smyth | October 6, 2009

Another new feature in QuickBooks 2010 is the ability to create your own “Favorites” menu – I have to admit my first thought was “ok is this an accounting package or a web browser?” I’m beginning to get very confused. 507 available items to add to “favorites”, isn’t this overkill?

QuickBooks 2010 – Rapid List Entry (Add/Edit Multiple List Entries)

Nancy Smyth | October 5, 2009

The Add/Edit Multiple List Entries is another new feature in QuickBooks 2010; where you can work with Customers, Jobs, Vendors, Service Items, Inventory Parts or Non-Inventory Parts. I can see this as being a very useful feature, and so far my favorite new feature in 2010. New QuickBooks users will be able to quickly add these list entries (speeding up setup time) and existing users can also benefit when they need to update say their item list with new pricing, change preferred vendors, change Expense or Income Accounts.

QuickBooks 2010 – New “App Center”

Nancy Smyth | October 2, 2009

Intuit Workplace App Center is where you can buy or try for free, 3rd party software that lives on the web rather than on your computer. Otherwise known as “hosted” or SaaS (Software as a Service) programs that you don’t own, but rather pay a monthly fee to use this software and all the data is stored on servers owned by Intuit. for those of you who like to own your own software and have that data live on your computers, the Intuit Marketplace still exists with hundreds of beefy applications that really extend the power of QuickBooks – visit http://marketplace.intuit.com to see a complete listing of 3rd party programs that perform a wide range of functions that you cannot obtain directly from within QuickBooks.

Best Practices – Upgrading to a new version of QuickBooks

Nancy Smyth | September 29, 2009

Whether you plan to do the QuickBooks installation and/orupgrade yourself or hire an IT person to do it for you, below is a list of “QuickBooks Upgrade Best Practices Tips” to help you through the process. KEEP your current version of QuickBooks while running tests in the new version – before you make the final commitment to upgrade. It will also alert you to any potential hardware issues that you might encounter.

Review-QuickBooks 2010, Easier Registration with possible “glitch”

Nancy Smyth | September 28, 2009

QuickBooks 2010 registrations is an automated process handled via an internet connection. However, there is a “glitch” that could occur in Steps 3-5 if when you begin registration and have a file open that is NOT your own company data file.

What’s New In QuickBooks 2010?

Nancy Smyth | September 27, 2009

Below is a partial list of the new features & functionality that we’ve found in QuickBooks 2010 and we will be releasing our “What’s New In QuickBooks 2010″ on October 5, 2009; watch for announcements here and on the “Home Page” of our Technical Support Area – http://www.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/technical-support.htm – on our main website

Windows 7 ROCKS

Nancy Smyth | September 24, 2009

Certified Payroll Solution (CPS), Construction Application for Payment Solution (CAPS), Crew/Overtime Entry Solution (COES) and Wage Manager Solution (WMS) by Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. is compatible with QuickBooks 2010 and Windows 7.

Nancy’s “Big” Adventure – or Upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate Final Release

Nancy Smyth | September 22, 2009

We received the “Final Release” version of Windows 7. Frankly this is amazing – we actually have a final release of “something” a full month before it will start hitting the computers of our customers. Kudo’s to Microsoft for LONG beta testing periods and a “real” early access program! Roughly 10 plus days ago, Intuit released purchasing availability to it’s ProAdvisors.

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”?