QuickBooks Accounting Software
Tips and FAQ for a Home Business

I find Quicken in general very easy to use - so it was a natural when I needed a home business accounting software to take a look at QuickBooks. I only tried this after struggling with Peachtree's cumbersome software and non-helpful technical support for a great deal of time. In comparison, QuickBooks was a breeze!

Installation was quick and painless, and I started setting up my business. The software asked me EXACTLY the types of questions I wanted to answer. What were my credit card accounts. What were my checking accounts. What assets did I have. Did I want to be generating invoices for sales? Did I want to be creating employee records? It was very quick and easy, and the built in help answered exactly the kinds of questions I had along the way.

When I got into the main software after that initial setup, again it was incredibly intuitive. Simple buttons let me leap to areas I had interest in - Banking, Customers, Vendors, Employees, Business Services and Reports. I was initially interested in setting up the history from my bank accounts and checking accounts. Voila - I simply hit the BANKING button and there I was!

IMPORTANT NOTE
Most online systems will let you download Quicken QIF files - but will NOT let you download QuickBooks IIF files. And very annoyingly, the QuickBooks documentation says nothing at all about how to import an IIF file!! I found a VERY good converter that takes in a QIF file and outputs an IIF file - very easily. I highly recommend it.

QIF to IIF Converter

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