Certum Solutions helped the growing enterprise wireless provider, ScanOnline, scale confidently with intuitive, rightsized reporting and warehouse management tools from QuickBooks Enterprise Diamond suite.

While it’s valuable for you to understand your cash flow and make strategic decisions about the direction of your manufacturing business, you don’t have to be the one keeping your books. A professional bookkeeper can handle your books quickly and efficiently, so you can spend your valuable time working on your business.

QuickBooks Enterprise Express Pick and Pack was enhanced in QuickBooks Enterprise Version 2020. While only available in the Platinum (Advanced Inventory) Edition, it is meant to save you time when building out roles, and when switching roles, for picker ad packers, as well as associated actions and approval processes.

As you can imagine, the more fragments you have the more of a maintenance issue you have. The lower the number the better it is. The magic number is under 20, but if you are over this then it isn’t the end of the world. You are just in the yellow zone. The fewer fragments you have the quicker that the file can be read. File fragments in and of themselves are not the problem – you will never have 0 fragments. They are just one of the gauges to measure file health (highest I’ve seen was over 300, and that was a rough one!).

I have the inventory scanner, barcode scanner, setting up the Advanced Inventory preferences…everything… NO USERS.

So, we are about to fix that.

Many of our posts are based in QuickBooks Enterprise and require Advanced Inventory to be on (required Platinum or higher subscription). To turn on Advanced Inventory, you will open up QuickBooks Enterprise and navigate to Preferences, under the Edit menu.

As an Accredited Business Consultant, I focus on navigating the ever-changing balance between tech and people. When companies are changing software this differentiation becomes incredibly important to be aware of. My mantra is to let people do people stuff, and let tech do tech stuff. Knowing how to leverage the tools you have available for your business – no kidding – will make you money.

You are running your reports at the end of the month, and come across an odd account on your P&L. Maybe your accountant asked about it, maybe it just stuck out like a sore thumb. Unapplied Cash Payments in QuickBooks are a funny animal. There seems to be a number there, and if you don’t know what it is, it takes way more time than necessary to fix!

In a previous post we set up our QuickBooks Enterprise file to calculate Landed Cost, or the cost to get an inventory item to a recipient’s door. Landed cost is important, because it helps you understand the total cost of your items that are shipped, instead of only calculating the cost of creating the item. As any manufacturer or distributor knows, knowing your COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) is a critical need for business planning and pricing. If you need a refresher on how to turn on Landed Cost, please see the previous article below, then carry on with our post.

Continuing our thread of improvements to this year’s version of QuickBooks Enterprise, today we are talking about the brand new Landed Cost feature for QuickBooks Enterprise Platinum tier. This new feature is available in both the US and Canadian versions of QuickBooks Enterprise.

Learn more about security permissions in QuickBooks Online Plus, QuickBooks Online Advanced, and QuickBooks Enterprise Desktop, and discover which one will best fit your business.

QuickBooks Enterprise comes in two hosting options. QuickBooks Local is installed on your own machine and is supported by your in-house staff. QuickBooks Enterprise Hosted is on a virtual server/vpn environment, and maintenance is typically handled by the hosting companies’ support team.

Learn what software sunsetting means and how the sunsetting of QuickBooks Desktop 2017 could affect your business. Know what to do about this change.

For the Construction Industry, the Contractor is the way to go. You have a great contractor menu that pops up for your more frequent tasks, you can complete Change Orders (the only edition that has this function). In the snapshot below, you can update Item Percent Complete for Job Cost reports, Create Estimates and Change Orders, Receive Payments and the like. 9/10 of the features you use day to day – right in a super easy menu!

You can set up several users in product, and as long as they aren’t going over the required seat count they should be ok signing in and out, such as if you have one scanner for multiple shift warehouse employees.

Intuit's stance is that the size capability of the file depends more on the hardware than anything else. In practical use, I have seen files as large as 10 GB, but I have always recommended a new file to be built around the 2-3 GB mark at the most.