QuickBooks enjoys more than 80% of the small business market, with 29 million small businesses in the United States alone. There are four QuickBooks Desktop products: QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, QuickBooks Enterprise, and QuickBooks Accountant. In this guide, we compare the cost, features and support options, including who each product is right for. QuickBooks Pro…
About the Author
Crystalynn Shelton
Crystalynn Shelton is a senior staff writer at Fit Small Business focusing on small business bookkeeping, accounting, and tax content. She is also an Adjunct Instructor at UCLA Extension where—for eight years—she has taught hundreds of small business owners how to set up and manage their books. Crystalynn is also a CPA, and Intuit ProAdvisor where Crystalynn specializes in QuickBooks consulting and training. Prior to joining Fit Small Business, Crystalynn was a Senior Learning Specialist at Intuit for three years and ran her own small QuickBooks consulting business.
As a writer, Crystalynn is credited in other publications like Travel Wire News, and the CorpNet blog. Her expertise has also been featured by sources like Merchant Maverick, Xero, and American Express.
Crystalynn is the author of Fit Small Business’ comprehensive QuickBooks Training Guide.
When Crystalynn isn’t writing or teaching, she enjoys rollerblading in Venice Beach and reading a good book.
How to Manage QuickBooks Online Bank Feeds
Welcome to the Fit Small Business QuickBooks Online training course. In this lesson, we’re going to cover how to manage QuickBooks bank feeds. After connecting your bank accounts to QuickBooks, you will need to review each transaction to ensure the date, amount, and account are correct before adding them to the QuickBooks check register. You…
How to Enter Bills in QuickBooks Online
In this tutorial, we’re going to cover how to enter bills in QuickBooks that you receive from vendors. Entering unpaid bills allows you to stay on top of your accounts payable balances. This is important to ensure you pay your bills on time to maintain a good credit history with vendor suppliers. Let’s begin! You…
QuickBooks Online vs Desktop: Which Is Right for You in 2019?
QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop are small business accounting software that differs in features and data accessibility. QuickBooks Desktop is ideal for businesses that sell products. In contrast, QuickBooks Online is best for service-based businesses that don’t spend much time in the office and need access to their data from a mobile device. QuickBooks Online…
6 Best Business Expense Tracker Apps 2019
The best business expense tracker apps allow you to capture receipts electronically, import credit card transactions, and integrate with most accounting software products. As a result, employees spend less time tracking down receipts so you don’t miss out on any tax deductions. We evaluated a dozen options and narrowed it down to the top six….
QuickBooks Online Comparison: Simple Start vs Essentials vs Plus vs Advanced
QuickBooks Online pricing offers four versions: Simple Start, Essentials, Plus, and Advanced. Pricing plans run between $20 and $150 per month. Based on our QuickBooks Online comparison, the ideal plan for your business will depend on the number of users you need and if your business requires features like A/P, inventory, or advanced reporting. When…
How to Receive Payments in QuickBooks Online
Welcome to the Fit Small Business QuickBooks Online training course. In the how to create and send invoices tutorial, we showed you how to create customer invoices. In this tutorial, we show you how to properly record customer payments so that your accounts receivable balances are always up-to-date. You can watch the video below and…
10 Best QuickBooks Alternatives 2019 [Free & Paid]
The best QuickBooks alternatives have all the core bookkeeping capabilities that small businesses need but are often easier to use and more affordable. Whether you’re looking to switch from QuickBooks, looking for your business’ first accounting software, or looking for a free QuickBooks alternative, you’ll find a full review of the right accounting software here….
7 Best Invoicing Software for Small Business 2019
The best invoice software allows you to streamline your invoicing process and get paid faster by allowing customers to pay online. We evaluated 17 invoicing software programs based on the ability to create recurring invoices, send automatic payment reminders to customers, and run an accounts receivable aging report to stay on top of open invoices….
Extending Credit to Your Customers: A Primer for Small Business Sellers
Extending credit to customers allows them to purchase goods and services on credit and pay for them later on. Offering credit is often a win-win for both merchants and buyers. Customers have more purchasing power, and tend to buy more if they are not limited to cash they have at the time of the sale….
How to Set Up QuickBooks Online in 15 Step-by-Step Lessons
Setting up the books for your small business can be quite overwhelming. Unless you have prior accounting or bookkeeping knowledge, you will need some help getting started with QuickBooks. Luckily, you don’t need an accounting background to complete the QuickBooks setup process; our step-by-step course was created just for QuickBooks beginners like you. QuickBooks offers…
7 Best Online Bookkeeping Services 2019
Online bookkeeping services help small businesses manage their bookkeeping, payroll, and tax needs. Whether you want to maintain some responsibility or outsource everything, we’ve done the legwork for you and found a mix of the seven best services with a proven track record. Read on for reviews of these online bookkeeping services. Top 7 Bookkeeping…
