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Do not Upgrade QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online Banking Problems

Greg Wright, QuickBooks Product Manager, recently had some good news on QuickBooks online banking problems. His posts to the QuickBooks online banking problems forum are a big help. http://community.intuit.com/post/detail/db1_IYMvSr3yp1acfARklS

He now expects an initial QuickBooks online banking problems fix in mid-December, not late December. He is pushing hard and escalating with Bank of America, to fix their 2009 QuickBooks online banking problems. Delays in this update have nothing to do with QuickBooks online banking problems, but some BofA reps do not know this. There is a web connect workaround (download a statement as a file, rather than directly connect through QB). Here are the steps for this:
    1) Log into the Bank of America website with your user id and password.
    2) Look for an option to download statements to QuickBooks. You want a .QBO extension file
    3) Save the file and then select open.
    4) Alternatively, open your QuickBooks company file, go to the File menu, select Utilities,
        Import, and Web Connect. Browse to your saved file and select Open.

At one point Google had 319,000 web pages, updated in the last month, with: QuickBooks online banking problems. This was apparently in error, as it only reports about 35,000 such pages now. It also seems, however, that the fix to the QuickBooks online banking problems are not the only QuickBooks problems that need fixing. Therefore, we now say do not ungrade QuickBooks until we see the results of the fix to the QuickBooks online banking probnlems.   

Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons

This is no first-look article on Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009, especially if you may be outgrowing QuickBooks. It is by a CPA who, with his ProAdvisor staff, already spent more than four months heavily pre-release testing QuickBooks 2009 and using it in production. It also is #14 in our Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009 series. Other Outgrowing QuickBooks articles are here (complete summary soon):

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks: No Way http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/10/why-should-you-upgrade-to-quickbooks-2009-outgrowing-quickbooks-no-way-11.html

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/quickbooks-2009-upgrade-yes-outgrowing-quickbooks-no-shrink-files-13.html

Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/why-should-you-upgrade-to-quickbooks-2009-outgrowing-quickbooks-foreign-currency--------why-upgrade-to-quickbooks-2009some.html

The Business Resource Planning Farm League, QuickBooks add-ons, QuickBase
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/the-business-resource-planning-farm-league-quickbooks-addons-quickbase-.html

Should You QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/11/free-download-save-30000year-custom-quickbooks-add-ons-quickbooks-2009-upgrade.html

Intuit only adds significant new capabilities to QuickBooks once a year. However, it will fix and substantially extend online banking in December and soon after. Intuit also added three new Intuit Connected Services to the Intuit Enterprise Suite in October. It was developing the sales application in-house and using Corrigo's WorkTrack Service Management and AccuCode's Velocity Inventory for field service and warehouse management applications. This led to a September 11, 2008 ChannelWeb article, Intuit Sets Collision Course With Microsoft With On-Demand Apps. It quotes Mario Nowogrodzki, my co-organizer of the South Florida QuickBooks Meetup (the largest anywhere, and its free). The score in prior Intuit vs Microsoft collisions is 10 to nothing in favor of Intuit. QuickBooks recently had 94.2% of recent small business accounting program sales at retail. It also had 400 ProAdvisors advertise for New York, where Microsoft had 2. Finally, Intuit has 75,000 QuickBooks add-ons developers, many of whom are sure to rush QuickBooks Add-ons using the new QuickBooks 2009 capabilities.

Therefore, you should soon see an eleveth clear case of Intuit beating Microsoft.

QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons

QuickBooks is the top small business accounting software, with 94.2% of recent retail sales. However, many find it does not meet all financial or business-management needs. To compensate, they buy extra software or adapt Excel or Word. They also may scrap QuickBooks for five-figure software promising greater usability and integration. Such programs often need higher priced staff and have very costly data conversion, training, upgrade, delay and consultant costs. That is why we say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

Upgrading from QuickBooks is almost always a very big mistake, according to a report from the Association of QuickBooks Technologists (AQBT). Few QuickBooks users, company executives, computer personnel and consultants know the fastest, easiest, least expensive, least disruptive and most accurate way to expand QuickBooks uses QuickBooks Add-ons. I coined this term around 10 years ago, after taking over a QuickBooks beta forum to discuss what we most wanted from QuickBooks. At the time Intuit seemed actively hostile to QuickBooks Add-ons, but I soon helped it see that these add-ons could provide much that it would never provide in a low-cost mass-market program. Three years later it suddenly decided that developers of QuickBooks Add-ons would be a top priority. This partly related to finding that users of QuickBooks Add-ons upgraded QuickBooks twice as often as non-add-on users. Now we again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

Users can add QuickBooks Add-ons to most versions of QuickBooks, including the fast new QuickBooks 2009 upgrades, to let even rather large companies use QuickBooks. This is especially true with the 25 and 30 user Enterprise versions of the QuickBooks 2009 update. They reflect the fact that QuickBooks is now much faster for multi-user operations, with many functions (like backup) no longer requiring single user access or running much faster (44% faster reports). I was the first to report that users could use the free QuickBooks Enterprise Database Manager to speed substantially up QuickBooks Pro and Premier users. I also wrote Speed Up QuickBooks for my website long before giving Intuit permission to copy this and my QuickBooks Shortcuts to the QuickBooks Community site Library, with attribution. I will soon have the QuickBooks Enterprise Database Manager as a free download. That is why we now  again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

Dawn Scranton is a Certified QuickBooks Professional Advisor, Certified QuickBooks Point of Sale Advisor and author of the popular book, “QuickBooks Add-ons & Integration Consulting.” She says "They upgrade to more expensive software programs, which promise the integration and usability QuickBooks users want, or piecemeal their own workaround solutions. This usually results in duplicated effort, wasted time and incorrect data. In fact, you can expand QuickBooks to do everything $50,000 software programs do, for as little as $5,000.” Now we  again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

In "7 Ways to Save $30,000+ a Year with QuickBooks Add-Ons,” Scranton identifies ways to solve the most common business challenges by expanding QuickBooks. For a free download of this report visit http://www.accountingdirectors.com/qbtech ABQT embers are advisors and consultants, whose primary mission is to locate, implement and support boxed and custom QuickBooks Add-ons. They help expanding businesses customize QuickBooks to function like $50,000+ accounting and business-management software. This also means users never enter data twice, while reducing errors and speeding results. That is why we now  again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

One of the most impressive types of QuickBooks Add-ons relates to the QuickBooks 2009 integration of Adobe Form Templates. This will let millions of users, with no access to QuickBooks, enter data in programs like the free Adobe 8 (not Adobe 9) Reader, for automatic import into QuickBooks, directly or with smart phones and personal digital assistants. Users and developers can use the full Adobe Acrobat to create many templates. A U.N. Committee estimated TRILLIONS in annual savings, from the use and electronic exchange of such universal forms and Electronic Data Interchage. QuickBooks has long had big-company EDI and will soon lead in electronic form exchange. That is why we now again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

QuickBooks add-ons with smart OCR recognition and imports are increasingly supplementing this at economical prices. Four million QuickBooks users, in 25 million companies, probably outnumber the estimated 600,000 accountants, auditors, bokkeepers and data entry clerks in the 17,000 companies with more than 2,500 employees. This is especially true because of the wide variety of standard and custom accounting software used in the million business units in such companies. That is why we now again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

A third major type of QuickBooks add-on relates to Intuit increasingly opening its QuickBase web database to QuickBooks developers. This database is so good that more than half the Fortune 500 use it. There are many free and low-cost applications already available and we will soon have some of our our own. Our Business Resource Planning Farm League article discusses this in detail, with a review by a big-company business resource planning writer and consultant. These and thousand of other QuickBooks add-ons will let us give you the fastest, easiest and least expensive way to customize QuickBooks, in any way you wish. That is why we now again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

Intuit says less than 1% of 50,000 ProAdvisors focus on QuickBooks Add-ons and integration, though it has 75,000 QuickBooks Add-ons developers. I created http://QuickBooks-add-ons.com/, the largest list of QuickBooks Add-ons, long before I could join AQBT. Many of its 8,000+ QuickBooks Add-ons links have since gone bad. However, we are now in the process of eliminating them, updating the site for more than 100,000 new QuickBooks Add-ons links and giving you more information on each. We also will keep banning duplicate links and links to those who review or resell add-ons they do not create. That is why  we now again say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons!

My ProAdvisor staff and I offer QuickBooks and QuickBooks Add-ons consulting, friendly QuickBooks training, as well as tax and accounting services. We use QuickBooks and many QuickBooks Add-ons on the web every day, with fast, low cost Microsoft Windows Terminal Server or Citrix hosting. We also  provide it to clients, on remote or local in-house servers, with the lowest rate in the industry: $26 per user per month. This "cloud computing" gives you The Safest Place for Data, which is why we now say QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? Outgrowing QuickBooks? QuickBooks Add-ons! 

I am most proud of http://www.blocktax.com/Our_QuickBooks_Friends.htm (Our QuickBooks Friends). My blocktax site home page shows Intuit CEO Brad Smith wrote, “You’re fantastic Mike. Absolutely fantastic!" and former CEO Steve Bennett wrote "Keep raising hell when Intuit does something wrong!"

If your QuickBooks advisor does not have this kind of relationship with Our QuickBooks Friends, why are you waiting? Our rates are certainly very competitive.

Should You Upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Foreign currency processing will let the new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade quickly replace 20 or so older, slower, less reliable and less full-featured international QuickBooks versions. More Intuit international products will arrive soon. 500+ tested, mature, inexpensive, ProAdvisor-reviewed, user-rated QuickBooks Add-ons now work with this QuickBooks 2009 “foreign currency” version. Many did not work with the old county-specific QuickBooks foreign currency versions. This will make the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade outsell all prior versions of QuickBooks by a wide margin. 
Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency?  We now get far more international inquiries, including those we help get the Lowest QuickBooks Prices http://www.blocktax.com/lowest_QuickBooks_prices.htm. My top long-time staffer, a Spanish-speaking ProAdvisor, helps a lot. You can contact Yolanda Perez directly at yolandap@mindspring.com, or simply to mblock@blocktax.com for her. We also have long had international assistants in many countries. They help us work almost 24/7 on our in-house and collocated QuickBooks terminal server. This cuts our QuickBooks support, help and accounting costs, while we finish faster. Google ‘webcpa + secrets’ for a related Accounting Technology magazine cover article, by outstanding writer and editor, Alexandra DeFelice.

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Many international inquiries come from accountants, who want to represent Intuit and better support clients. We tell them they too can be QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisors, while actually saving money on QuickBooks software and Intuit support. This means that those who thought they might be outgrowing QuickBooks, due to foreign currency needs, will soon have armies of international QuickBooks ProAdvisors, like the 50,000 QuickBooks ProAdvisors we have here. Why consider a foreign currency accounting program that will not have international support?

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Scott Wilder got my Speed Up QuickBooks and QuickBooks Shortcuts articles in the QuickBooks Library and was very helpful with my original BlockTax QuickBooks Blog. However, he was most helpful to Spanish speakers. By organizing and nurturing key influential QuickBooks Comminity forum users with Spanish skills, he helped to satisfy important unmet needs among a growing number of users. "QuickBooks presently doesn't have a Spanish-language manual, but we were able to successfully organize these passionate contributors to address this need. Now some of our most passionate Spanish-language users are really dialing up their contributions, from contributing mini-manuals to 'how-to' podcasts in Spanish." We may expect mant more such efforts now ts QuickBooks supports foreign currency.

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency? Many Intuit friends have long been very sensitive to international needs and the related need for privacy. One of my oldest Intuit friends is an outstanding Intuit “black belt,” Rich Walker. He was liaison to Intuit Japan and my first QuickBooks Advisory Council. I once had concerns about Intuit privacy when he was in Japan and very sick. However, he quickly set up a very long conference call with me (Florida), him and the QuickBooks be Intuit privacy directors in northern and southern California. It fully resolved my concerns. That and what I have seen since meant I was was not surprised when TRUSTe intenet privacy authority recently said Intuit was one of the Top Three Most Trusted Companies for Privacy in 2007. Rich is now again helping ProAdvisors with the our international n domestic opportunities.

Should you upgrade to QuickBooks 2009? Outgrowing QuickBooks? Foreign Currency?  So let us hear from you if you have international concerns.

QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files! (#13)

James Gaskin wrote, at Networkworld: MILLIONS of small businesses that use accounting products from QuickBooks... are AFRAID to make the jump into more complex and expensive software. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sbt/2006/0227networker3.html

As a CPA, specializing in QuickBooks, and managing other QuickBooks users and QuickBooks ProAdvisors since inception, I know this is obviously not true. QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!

QuickBooks had a total of only about four million users, though it recently had 94.2% of small businesses accounting software sales at retail. The vast majority of these users have absolutely no interest in or need for more complex AND EXPENSIVE programs. Many even question the cost of QuickBooks, though there is a free version and the most popular versions sell for $80 to $160. Quite a few are very unhappy about extra charge for payroll, which adds $99 - $249, depending on number of employees and features. Only a small fraction of QuickBooks users are large enough to consider if they are outgrowing QuickBooks, not millions. Only a still tinier fraction are really outgrowing QuickBooks, NOT MILLIONS. Most of those who may be outgrowing QuickBooks should say QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!

I previously detailed that companies with less than 500 employees, and many business units in larger companies, should use QuickBooks, especially with an integrated payroll program or services. To summarize, the Census Bureau had 25 million firms in 2004. http://www.prlog.org/10133690-why-quickbooks-2009-upgrade-outgrowing-quickbooks-no-way-11b.html. All but 17,000 had less than 500 employees, so most are suitable for QuickBooks. The 17,000 had a million establishments (business units, locations, divisions), with an average of less than 60 employees each, so most units in large companies are suitable for QuickBooks. Few even need QuickBooks Enterprise, as they do some accounting with other programs and at other offices. That is why you should upgrade to QuickBooks 2009 unless your big-company software has much more than many additional needed features. QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!

The QuickBooks 2009 upgrade is, by far, the fastest, easiest, most complete and most accurate QuickBooks ever. It will improve the number of QuickBooks ProAdvisors (50,000+) and the industry-high ratio of QuickBooks (Intuit) Net Promoters (see Google). These Promoters use QuickBooks and recommend it to colleagues and friends. Their large numbers strongly predict continued Intuit success. The flip-side of this success will be continuing rapid failure of competitors. Quicken initially had 45 competing home checkbooks program, but few survive. Unless users can find new companies with consistent profits and high user satisfaction (NetPromoter) ratings, they should say QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!

Mr. Gaskin now suggests Cougar Mountain ($999 - $20,000); Sage Accpac ($760 - $45,000); Sage Mas 90 ($1300 - $45,000); Microsoft Small Business Financials (less than 25 employees, $995 - $4,595); and SAP Business One ($4,250 per user). These costs are a small part of the real costs of these programs. Add the big data conversion costs, consultant costs, training costs, higher priced staff salaries, the considerable delay costs, and much more. Mr Gaskin cites the free CTS Guides. Their last review was for 2006. Three of their 10 packages were from companies that seem to have massively falsified their public financial statements. 8 of the 10 were from companies that sold out to Sage or Microsoft, rather than apparently being able to prosper on their own. Sage, in fact, publicly justified the price paid for Peachtree based on its expected ability to switch users to more expensive packages. Its later actions made this clear, to the distress of Peachtree users and add-on developers. Microsoft acquired bought several of these companies after repeatedly failing with internally developed programs and prior purchases. It has been beaten by Intuit at least nine times, including the recent withdrawal of Microsoft Money from retail sales. These new purchase initially produced massive losses. They also produced the initial $150 version of Microsoft Accounting, a so-called “QuickBooks killer (Microsoft's label, not mine) It soon became a free download. Microsoft is still not #2 in retail sales with its paid version. It gives away about $15,000 of software for $299 a year to professional accountants. However, it recently listed only two professional advisors in the New Your City area, where QuickBooks had more than 400 (200:1). Therefore, unless users can find stability and solid accountant support, with large numbers of accountants who agree on a product, they should say QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!

If Mr. Gaskin really wants to see MILLIONS of small businesses AFRAID of outgrowing QuickBooks he can give them his CTS Cost-Justifier (trademark) Excel sheets. These 9 Excel sheets include many long and complex ones, with about 14 pages of needed help. That should really make those who think they are outgrowing QuickBooks say QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files!

The big reason many feel they are outgrowing QuickBooks is speed, especially as files grow bigger. I will soon discuss the many ways to Speed Up QuickBooks, updating my article by this name. This article has been on my http://blocktax.com/ website for many years and has been in the QuickBooks Community website Library since January 2006. However, that will be my next article. This one will deal with the need to Shrink Files in QuickBooks. Not even QuickBooks 2009 effectively shrinks files. As these files, and the related obsolete list items, keep getting bigger, QuickBooks really slows down. We now have the fastest and easiest way to inexpensively Shrink Files for you in QuickBooks. We can remove ONLY the information you wish, without errors, while we preserve links between invoices - receipts and bills - payments. We can often do this for less than half what others may charge. Now you can keep saying QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? YES! Outgrowing QuickBooks? NO! Shrink Files! So simply click here (it's free): http://www.blocktax.com/Contact_us_for_QuickBooks_Accounting_Software.htm

Why QuickBooks 2009? Free Programs! Free eBooks! Free Downloads! #12

Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Free programs: QuickBooks 2009 Simple Start Free Edition.
Free download.
http://quickbooks.intuit.com/product/accounting-software/free-accounting-software.jsp
This is no trial that times out. It now uses files from old QuickBooks Simple Start free editions and makes an Accountant Copy. Unlike the $99.95 2009 Simple Start, you only can have 20 customers.

Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Free eBook: QuickBooks 2009 Simple Start.
Free download. Simple Start to Managing Your Business Finances, A Guide to the Essentials https://accountant.intuit.com/practice_resources/grassroots/Simple_Start_instructorguide.pdf

Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Big free eBook,QuickBooks 2009 Premier Edition.
Free download. QuickBooks Accounting 2009, The Official Guide for Premier Edition Users.
The Pro version is $19.95+.
http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/ebookdownloads/intuit/qbpremier09/QuickBooks2009PremierEdition.pdf.

Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? Free Test Drives, Free Program Trials,
Free Brochures and Marketing Kits. Free Download.
http://accountant.intuit.com/practice_resources/testdrive/

Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? The most complete what's new in QuickBooks 2009 upgrade.
From Intuit: http://proadvisor.intuit.com/product/whatsnew/byproduct.jsp

Why QuickBooks 2009 upgrade? The best what's new in QuickBooks 2009 upgrade.
From a CPA - Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor, who spent four months heavily pre-release testing and using QuickBooks 2009 in production, while talking to top Intuit executives.
http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/10/why-quickbooks-2009-6-free-548-page-quickbooks-ebook-.html

9/25/08 Free Live QuickBooks 2009 Sneak Preview, Ask the QuickBooks Experts

On September 25 the South Florida QuickBooks Meetup will have its most exciting meeting. This is the country's largest QuickBooks and software Meetup by far.

 

We will again feature two of the best known QuickBooks "Ask the Expert" veterans, plus a very good guest speaker Everyone is welcome to try to stump co-founders Mario Nowogrodzki and Mike Block, with your hardest QuickBooks questions, but no one ever stumped them before. In addition, Intuit recently chose Mike for an unprecedented two more Ask the Expert appearances. Of course, it helps when you have Intuit CEO Brad Smith writing this about you, "Your fantastic Mike. Absolutely fantastic." The old CEO wrote that Mike should, "Keep raising hell when Intuit does something wrong," AFTER he cost Intuit about $30 million.

Either of the three remaining Meetup topics would be a headline event in most places. We will have a special live sneak preview of the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade. This QuickBooks 2009 upgrade program is not yet out, but we will show members the live demo for QuickBooks ProAdvisors, as well as the related Live Community support site, built into the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade. This QuickBooks 2009 upgrade is so extensive and important that Intuit has 37 pages on it and Mike already has many posts at

http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/ 

We also will have guest speaker from http://bill.com/. This QuickBooks add-on promises 50% less time and cost and 100% less filing! Company founder Rene Lacerte previously brought us two QuickBooks add-ons: the top-of-the-line Intuit Lacerte professional tax program and fast growing inexpensive Paycycle payroll. Co-founder Tom Proulx was the Intuit co-founder and the first Quicken programmer. Reviewers and Bay Area QuickBooks Meetup members really liked this Bill.com presentation.

Your speakers will come to the Meetup direct from a Port Everglades Convention Center accounting show, so there are sure to be exciting new announcements. So reserve your place at http://quickbooks.meetup.com/34/.It is all free and you can have a good reasonably-priced meal (if you like) while you quickly learn how to make more money and run your business better with QuickBooks.

 

 

Please contact Mike Block, QuickBooks CPA at

http://BlockTax.com/ http://QuickBooks-add-ons.com/

 

Network Permission QuickBooks Error, QuickBooks 2009 upgrade #5

Network permission QuickBooks errors gave us lots of trouble recently. These bad network permission QuickBooks errors involve QuickBooks 2008 and other QuickBooks version error messages like, "You may not have sufficient permissions to create an accountant's copy from this computer" or "You may not have sufficient permissions to create a portable company file from this computer."

Messages from these network permission QuickBooks errors had us try to change server permissions, which did not help. We were working around such network permission QuickBooks errors by temporarily copying files to local drives. However, we now have an Intuit Support message that this network permission QuickBooks error occurs if:

• The name of the company data file or folder contains non-alphanumeric characters, such as apostrophe ( ' ), ampersand (&), dash (-) or hash (#). For example,
  F:\John's data\QuickBooks\Smith & Jones Plumbing.qbw.

• The data operation is taking place over a network.

• Multiple workstations are configured to host the data file.

• The Windows user does not have sufficient permissions on the server.

• There is data damage in the company file.

I began my BlockTax.com QuickBooks Errors pages 10 years ago. However, many new QuickBooks errors, including ones like the the network permission QuickBooks errors, are better shown on the new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade Live Community Support site. We only found this network permission QuickBooks error solution on this exciting new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade site, where it seemed to jump out at us. I suspect many will soon see this, especially with the new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade Live Community in-context and User-to-User help and the substantial amount of extra video that is part of the new Sneak Preview of the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade beta.

It helps if your QuickBooks 2009 upgrade friends include amazing Intuit CEO Brad Smith. My home page Our QuickBooks Friends link has Brad writing, "I am reaching out to you in hopes we can schedule a 30 minute call to make introductions and briefly discuss ideas and areas of focus. I understand this is the busiest time of year, but have been told by Rich Walker, Tom Allanson and others that you have been quite open to taking time to assist Intuit, are a tremendous voice of reason and one of our most impactful and innovative Professional Advisors."

A top exec meeting soon got a new Intuit feedback site I wanted. I also wanted Tech Support to use ProAdvisors to help users when calls back up, indirectly leading to the exciting new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade Live Support site. Many calls and fast email exchanges (even on Sunday) led Brad to often help me with users. He got QuickBooks upgraded in 5 days for my add-ons developer, counting the weekend before Christmas. This, and his fast rise to run the Consumer Tax and QuickBooks divisions, made me write he would be the next Intuit CEO 2 years before he was. Brad wrote, "You're fantastic Mike. Absolutely fantastic!"

I often talked to Intuit executives like Brad about how others could get the type of support that made me so wildly happy with Intuit. For example, simply asking for a case number and asking to escalate a problem will get you terrific service, as I often wrote. The new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade Live Community support includes a web first approach, automating case numbers.

It was clear you did not have to be a ProAdvisor to answer questions well. Brad got research showing users prefer having questions answered by other users (not Intuit tech support). This made Brad have links to such Live Community user-to-user support built right into TurboTax, which has far more users than QuickBooks. In the first year TurboTax users gave answers to 40% of questions from other users, before support people got to them. Users also tended to give better answers. In addition, there were more accountants and users available to answer questions when there were more questions. It lets users show off and repay the help they get from other users, helps cut costs and helps accountants get clients.

The Live Community links are now built right into the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade, so accountants and users can ask questions while working in QuickBooks. It automatically limits question posts by displaying prior answers based on where users are in QuickBooks and possibly by natural-language analysis. A great new search engine, with more branching and online tools, speeds how we find answers. Extra QuickBooks 2009 upgrade videos also may make many fall in love with the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade Live Community site, as I did.

We will soon have better phone and web support. Users will have assigned phone numbers, call back numbers, case IDs and web sections for different types of problems, so they get the right help fast. They will get 30 days of free assisted support, plus free bug or emerging issue support and unlimited free self-service support. ProAdvisors will have better web tools 24/7, plus no change in phone access to our top U.S. based team. They will still be prominent support options on the new QuickBooks 2009 upgrade support site, with links to the Find-a-ProAdvisor site.

Here are related QuickBooks 2009 upgrade screen shots showing a user wanting install and setup help:

Search QuickBooks support or choose a topic to get started

Advanced search Search Tips

If users select Local Installation, they get options to help them get the answer they need.

Users then have options that best fit their needs.

Please contact Mike Block, QuickBooks CPA at
http://BlockTax.com/ http://QuickBooks-add-ons.com/

Free Sneak Preview, Upgrade QuickBooks 2009? Why QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade? #3

Would you like to try the best way to answer the questions:
     Upgrade QuickBooks 2009?  or 
     Why QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade?

There is a Free Sneak Preview of the beta version of the QuickBooks 2009 upgrade, Premier Accountant Edition. For a limited time you can use my ProAdvisor membership to decide Upgrade QuickBooks 2009?  or Why QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade?

Click on http://proadvisor.intuit.com/. Login (at the top) with mblock@blocktax.com, bl6532. Next click the top left QuickBooks link, then the Special Sneak Preview link and finally the Special Sneak Preview graphic at the bottom. This is one of the best ways to answer the questions Upgrade QuickBooks 2009?  or Why QuickBooks 2009 Upgrade?

Please contact Mike Block, QuickBooks CPA at
http://BlockTax.com/ http://QuickBooks-add-ons.com/