QuickBooks Tips Blog

You can link QuickBooks to your Gmail account.  Connecting QuickBooks and Gmail makes emailing QuickBooks invoices from Gmail possible.  Watch this demonstration to learn how to easily connect Gmail to QuickBooks.

Let's talk about the fun stuff; bringing money into your business.  In order to bring in money you need to be able to create an invoice in QuickBooks to submit to your customers.  While creating invoices in QuickBooks may seem easy and straightforward you need to make sure you are handling things correctly.  Setting up invoices correctly from the beginning will ensure that all of your accounting is being done correctly behind the scenes.  Here is a short video on how to create invoices in QuickBooks.   

The invoicing function in QuickBooks I frequently find misused, ignored, or the process is just never followed through to the end. Misusing the invoicing function and the items lists
associated with it can lead to a disaster in your chart of accounts. Ignoring the invoice function can lead to a complete misunderstanding of what you're actually due from your customers. And not following the process can lead to a massively inflated accounts receivable when you may have already recognized the checks from your customers as income. However following the basic invoicing flow as will follow can simplify your day to day and year end. For the example we'll say we're a web designer named Tim who just bought QuickBooks and needs to invoice his customer for his first job which was priced out to be $1,000.