I recently tried to buy The Entrepreneur´s Guide to Customer Development for Tech Startups and was alarmed to learn that the payment method I used (PayPal) uses an e-Check system by default. My PayPal account is tied to a regular bank account and everything comes out of that. Now apparantly I must wait for my check to clear, which won’t be until Friday. I can’t believe I have to wait till Friday to get a PDF download! I did not see any notice of this on their site, and they did not take credit cards on the site where I bought the pdf.
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Several days ago I decided to use PayPal’s Website Payments Pro system for the Stronico credit card processing system. At the time, I thought PayPal was the obvious choice. It had relatively low fees (about $60 per month), no setup fee, and it seemed to be the 800 pound gorilla in the space, so how bad coudl it behard could the setup be?
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Quick Note: QuickBooks refers to an owner’s contribution (i.e. an investment in the business) as a “Capital Investment”. Also, Bank of America charges for their QuickBooks integration. HT: Recording Infrequent Transactions in QuickBooks
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My weaknesses have made themselves apparant over the past few days, here is a preliminary list. The first entry is the topic, the one below that is the specifics, and the one below that is the practical step to get me to an adequate level in under ten hours.
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The internet is filled with hatred of QuickBooks. After doing much of the hating myself I realize now that people do not hate the program because of what the program can’t do; they hate QuickBooks because the program discourages them in small ways at every opportunity. Using QuickBooks is like wading three miles through a swamp to pay your taxes. If you took away half of the options and removed the unwanted spontaneous advertising you would have a nice program. Continue reading “Is it time to replace QuickBooks with Less Accounting?” »
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For some reason the blog posts about QuickBooks Pro 2010 are the most popular ones on the entire blog. As I’m doing accounting this morning, here are what I would change.
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As you might expect, most of the traffic comes from Google, and curiously most of the search terms are about problems with QuickBooks. The How To Fix series is the second most popular. Happily the search term “Visual Contact Management” is a prominent search term as well. I’m still debating as to whether or not the photos in the blog posts are of any use or not.
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The Problem: QuickBooks 2010 refuses to print to pdf when you attempt to send an invoice on Vista 64 bit.
The Cause: Quickbooks 2010 on Vista 64 bit does not work well.
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I intended the focus of the “How To Fix” posts to be Silverlight, but as I’ve encountered other problems while setting up the business, I’m posting those. The rule I established is “If it takes more than 15 minutes to fix, it gets documented” so here we go.
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After recreating an XP 32bit Pro installation on two different drives, I finally get QuickBooks 2010 to work on my machine. Now to actually use it and see if it is the fun everyone tells me it is.
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