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No Shame in Application Downsizing, Big Company Inventory: QuickBooks Fishbowl

No Shame in Application Downsizing is an excellent  IT Business Edge article about their being No Shame in Application Downsizing when times are tight. No Shame in Application Downsizing says, "if you need serious inventory support for thousands and thousands of items, you may find yourself looking at a name you never saw before: Fishbowl Inventory." IT Business Edge readers may waste big bucks if they do not know that FishBowl is an outstanding way to give QuickBooks big company inventory, with multiple locations. FishBowl also is one of the fastest and easiest ways for a hundred or so users to inexpensively batch-enter inventory and invoicing for QuickBooks. However, FishBowl works with QuickBooks and not Quicken, as No Shame in Application Downsizing keeps saying.

I was writing about Outgrowing QuickBooks since loog before my 2008 Qutgrowing QuickBooks series. No Shame in Application Downsizing is simply a new name for an old concept. As I detailed in these articles, only a few companies have more than 500 employees and even they have many locations that can use Quickbooks, with No Shame in Application Downsizing,

Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software? Online Banking Problems

This is no first-look article on Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software or QuickBooks online banking problems. It is by a CPA who, with his ProAdvisor staff, often spend 3+ months on extensive annual pre-release QuickBooks tests, before heavy production use. QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software once had bug and related test contests. I got the tests dropped after winning two contests with scores up to 25 times the average.

DO NOT UPGRADE Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software, even if you will not use online banking or credit card downloads to avoid QuickBooks online banking problems. Our  extensive QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software pre-release tests rarely use online banking. Many banks, like Bank of America, only upgrade for QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software after beta tests close, so we cannot pre-release test online banking. There now SERIOUS QuickBooks online banking problems. Google now has 319,000 (!) web pages, updated in the last month, for: QuickBooks online banking problems. In addition, a Bank of America QuickBooks representative told us yesterday their QuickBooks 2009 small business online banking upgrade would be in February! However, bith Intuit and Bank of America later said this only applied to the Mac. The Windows version could be out as soon as today. However, a Quickbook 2009 online banking problems forum at http://community.intuit.com/quickbooks/post/detail/db1_IYMvSr3yp1acfARklS shows many having extensive problens in other areas. Therefore, DO NOT UPGRADE QuickBooks small business accounting software YET!

Greg Wright (OnlineBanking_QB2009@intuit.com), QuickBooks Product Manager, has engineers working nights and weekends on QuickBooks online banking problems. He initially said a Bank of America QuickBooks upgrade would be ready November 14 and is not updating the above forum. This only involves BoA programmers, though I would love to see some top QuickBooks programmers heling thereThere is one possible reason for the delay: BoA was the largest investor in recent financing by a startup that wrote its online banking suite. The suite works with and competes with QuickBooks. Some at BoA may want only their program to run. It seems unlikely, but many once correctly said that Microsoft made it so, "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run." I hope other BoA customers will now join me in daily protests to BoA about its ridiculous annual delays, though I expect the upgrade very soon.

Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software? Online banking and credit card downloads? NOT YET! Greg now expects Quick Add (add new names or accounts in online banking), Quick Fill (typing in drop down fields fills in names) and manual match (see register to manually match entries) in a mid-December upgrade (upgraded yesterday from late November). He is also rushing Add Multiple (review and edit multiple transactions before entry) and working to let us use forms like sales receipts and inventory for downloads, to solve other QuickBooks online banking. I know what "as soon as possible" means at Intuit, after getting a QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software program fix in five days (counting the weekend before Christmas), for one small add-ons developer.

There is hope, but I never recall such serious QuickBooks small business accounting software problems, involving such long delays. We should have a program to let us convert back to earlier QuickBooks versions. However, this effectively means separate programs for QuickBooks 2008, 2007, 2006, and so forth. I hope forwarding this to top Intuit people gets them to notify all users of these problems. Please post the QuickBook online banking problems forum if you agree there should be such a notice. 

Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software? Online Banking?

This is no first-look article on Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software. It is by a CPA who, with his ProAdvisor staff, often spend 3+ months on extensive annual pre-release QuickBooks tests, before heavy production use. QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software once had bug and related test contests. I got them dropped after winning two contests with scores up to 25 times above average.

Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software? Online banking and credit card downloads? NOT YET! Unless you use online banking you should definitely upgrade. We now try to only use QuickBooks 2009. However, our extensive QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software pre-release tests rarely test online banking. Many banks, incluing Bank of America, only upgrade for QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software after beta tests close, so we cannot pre-release test online banking. That is why there are now VERY SERIOUS online banking problems in what is otherwise the fastest, easiest and most innovative QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software. Intuit says this only affects 4% of users, but it is CRITICAL for those that use it.

Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software? Online banking and credit card downloads? NOT YET! Greg Wright (OnlineBanking_QB2009@intuit.com, QuickBooks Product Manager) has engineers working nights and weekends on online banking. A delay in an expected November 14 Bank of America upgrade for QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software only involves BoA programmers. One possible reason for it: BoA was the largest investor in recent financing by a startup that wrote its online banking suite. The suite works with and competes with QuickBooks. Some at BoA may want only their program to run. It seems unlikely, but many once correctly said that Microsoft made it so, "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run." I hope other BoA customers will now join me in daily protests to BoA about its ridiculous annual delays, though I expect the upgrade very soon.

Upgrade QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software? Online banking and credit card downloads? NOT YET! Greg now expects Quick Add (add new names or accounts in online banking), Quick Fill (typing in drop down fields fills in names) and manual match (see register to manually match transactions) in a December upgrade. He is also rushing Add Multiple (review and edit multiple transactions before entry) and working to let us use forms like sales receipts and inventory for downloads. I know what "as soon as possible" means at Intuit, after getting a QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Software program fix in five days (counting the weekend before Christmas), for one small add-ons developer. For the latest information see Greg's online banking problem forum, where he often posts: http://community.intuit.com/quickbooks/post/detail/db1_IYMvSr3yp1acfARklS