55 Free QuickBooks Tutorials: Learn QuickBooks Fast (+Videos)

Welcome to Fit Small Business’ free QuickBooks Online tutorials. Each provides an in-depth lesson complete with text, examples, and a comprehensive video demonstration—designed to help you better understand how to use QuickBooks Online for your business.

QuickBooks Online Tutorial: What’s Covered

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Our free QuickBooks course consists of eight main lessons.

Module 1:

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Setting Up QuickBooks Online

In this module, you’ll learn how to set up key areas of QuickBooks Online, including entering your company information, adding users, customizing your QuickBooks Online dashboard, and setting up the chart of accounts. By the time you complete this section, you will be ready to start using QuickBooks to manage all of your income and expenses.

The features and settings that you choose in this module will affect every area of QuickBooks. For example, you will set the default payment terms for customer invoices and vendor bills. You will also choose whether to turn on project tracking and inventory quantity and cost tracking.

This module includes the following tutorials:

Module 2:

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Managing Sales and Income

This covers how to create sales forms and track sales and income in QuickBooks Online. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to keep track of your credit sales by creating and emailing invoices to your customers as well as recording cash sales where no invoice is needed. You will also learn how to apply payments received to outstanding invoices and receive partial payments from customers. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to track billable hours and bill your clients for the time worked.

Below are the lessons included in this module:

Module 3:

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Managing Bills and Expenses

This module covers how to manage your bills and record expenses in QuickBooks. As a small business owner or manager, you know that managing expenses is as important as generating sales. By the end of this QuickBooks lesson, you will be able to keep track of expenses in a couple of ways.

First, you can write and print checks directly from QuickBooks to pay for expenses that require immediate payment. Second, you will be able to enter and track bills and apply the payment of these bills correctly so that the expense is not recorded twice. Additionally, you’ll learn how to write off bad debts, which are recorded as an expense in QuickBooks.

Here you’ll encounter the following lessons:

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Managing Banking Transactions

You will be able to manage all of your downloaded banking transactions by the end of this section. You will also understand how to enter basic banking transactions manually and how to use the Undeposited Funds account to temporarily hold cash and check payments before depositing them into your bank account. Finally, you can use the reconcile tool to ensure the transactions on your bank statement match what has been entered into QuickBooks, resulting in up-to-date financial statements.

This module includes the following tutorials:

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Managing Business Credit Card Transactions

This module will teach you to download and track your credit card purchases in QuickBooks and reconcile them with your credit card statement to ensure that they match. You’ll also learn how to manage credit card sales with either a QuickBooks Payments account integrated with QuickBooks or a third-party credit card processor. You should consider accepting credit card payments as a convenience for your customers and to expedite the collection of outstanding invoices.

Our credit card-related tutorials are as follows:

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Setting Up & Managing Payroll

By using QuickBooks Payroll, all your wages, salaries, and payroll taxes will be included automatically in your financial statements. After this lesson, you’ll be able to set up employees in QuickBooks, enter and run payroll, pay employees by direct deposit or check, and reconcile your payroll taxes.

This module includes the following tutorials:

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Reporting in QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks will generate important reports that will provide you, your accountant, and your banker important insights into the financial health of your business. This QuickBooks tutorial will teach you the importance of and how to print the profit and loss report, balance sheet report, statement of cash flows, and A/R and accounts payable (A/P) aging reports.

One of the primary purposes of using bookkeeping software like QuickBooks Online is to determine the health of your business at any given point in time. Having the ability to produce solid, accurate financial statements can benefit you in the following ways:

• You might gain potential investors
• You might secure a business loan or line of credit
• You can make better business decisions, such as whether you should sell a new product or service or drop one that is not doing so well

This section includes the following tutorials:

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Advanced Accounting in QuickBooks Online

Depending on your subscription, QuickBooks Online provides advanced features, like project and inventory management, class and location tracking, and journal entries. This lesson will teach you how to use these advanced features to automate complex accounting workflows and gain deeper insights into your business’s financial performance.

This section contains the following tutorials:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What are Fit Small Business’ free QuickBooks Online tutorials?

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Bottom Line

Our free QuickBooks tutorials will teach you the basics you need to know to start keeping the books for your small company or employer. Don’t be intimidated by the size of the tutorial―take one lesson or tutorial at a time. Get started today.