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Want to transfer funds from one bank account to another bank account? If so, you’ll need to record this transfer so that it doesn’t interfere with your business’s accounting records. Using Quickbooks Online, you can easily record bank transfers such as this. The cloud-based version of Intuit’s popular accounting software supports bank transfers. It even has a special feature, known as the “Transfer Funds” feature, to simplify this process. For instructions on how to transfer funds between two bank accounts using Quickbooks Online, keep reading.

Start by launching Quickbooks Online and logging in to your account. Once logged in, click the (+) icon at the top of the screen, followed by Other > Transfer. You should now see a “Transfer Funds From” menu, which you can click to select your bank from the drop-down list. Be sure to choose the bank from which the funds are coming. Do not select the bank to where the funds are going.

Quickbooks Online should also present you with a menu for “Transfer Funds To.” Click this menu and choose the bank account to which the funds are going. Of course, you’ll only see bank accounts here that have already been added to your account. If you want to transfer funds from or to a bank account that isn’t connected with your Quickbooks Online account, you must go back and add the bank account to Quickbooks Online first. Only then will you be able to record the transfer using this method.

There are a few more steps left to record a transfer between two bank accounts using Quickbooks. After selecting your bank accounts, you must enter the dollar amount that you’d like to transfer between these two accounts in the “Transfer Amount” field. After double-checking this amount to ensure it’s correct, enter the date of the transfer and click “Save and close.” Upon closing this window, Quickbooks Online will record the transfer.

An alternative solution is to use a check. You can transfer funds between bank accounts using a check. When writing a check to transfer funds, however, you should include the bank account from which the funds are coming at the top of the check, and include the bank account to where the funds are going at the bottom in the “Account” line.

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Is there an account in Quickbooks that you’d like to reactivate? Quickbooks allows you to disable active accounts. Once disabled, you won’t be able to use those accounts. This makes it a valuable feature if your business is constantly adding or removing vendors or customers. But what if you want to reactivate an account that you previously disabled? Well, Quickbooks also allows you to reactivate disabled accounts. In just a few easy steps, you can turn these disabled accounts back on so that you can target them in Quickbooks.

To reactivate a disabled account, log in to Quickbooks and click “Transactions” on the left-hand menu, followed by “Chart of Accounts.” As you may know, “Chart of Accounts” displays all accounts associated that you’ve added to Quickbooks. Next, click the “Action” column at the top of the screen, followed by “Settings.” This will bring up several configuration options for your “Chart of Accounts.” Find the option titled “Include inactive,” and click it. This option, of course, tells Quickbooks to display all your business’s accounts in the “Chart of Accounts,” including those that you’ve set as inactive.

From here, you can scroll through the list of accounts until you find the one that you’d like to reactivate. Depending on the size of your business and how many accounts you’ve added, this may take a while. If you have hundreds of accounts, for example, you’ll have to sift through them to find the specific one that you’d like to reactivate. Once you’ve found the account, click the option titled “Make active.” Assuming you’ve followed these steps, the account should be reactivated, thereby allowing you to select it when recording entries in Quickbooks.

Even after reactivating a disabled account, you can still go back and make it temporarily inactive again. The process is pretty much the same, involving accessing your “Chart of Accounts,” followed by scrolling through your list of accounts until you’ve found the one that you’d like to disable. Once located, simply click “Make inactive.” When done correctly, Quickbooks will change the status of this account to inactive again. It should only take a few minutes to perform this process, after which the account will be inactive. And like before, you can go back and change the status of this account to active or inactive account. Just remember to follow the steps listed in this blog post.

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Whether your business sells a product or service, you’ll probably to spend money to make money. Therefore, it’s important that you track your business’s job costs. By closely monitoring your job costs, you can see exactly how much money your business spends to produce the products or services that it sells. If this number is too high, it will result in a lower return on investment (ROI). In fact, some businesses experience a negative ROI, indicating that they spend more money to produce their products or services that the amount for which those products or services are sold. Using Quickbooks, you can easily track your business’s job costs in just a few simple steps.

To track job costs in Quickbooks, you’ll need to create a unique “job” for each customer in Quickbooks. This will allow you to create custom job costs for each customer. After doing do, you can access the “Customer:Job” column column in your Quickbooks account to enter an expense. In this column, you’ll see a few basic fields. The billable time field, for example, refers to the numbers of hours that your business spent performing the job for the respective customer.

There’s also the job-related purchases field, which refers to products or services that your business purchased (not sold) for the purpose of selling its own products or services to the customer. You can use a bill or credit card to record job-related purchases. For the “Items” tab here, enter products or services that your business purchased to perform the job. Just remember to assign each item to the customer.

For the overhead expenses field, you’ll want to enter overhead expenses associated with the sale of the product or service to the customer. What is overhead exactly? Overhead refers to ongoing, indirect expenses associated with running a business. Examples of overhead expenses include rent, utilities and office supplies. While overhead expenses are typically less than direct expenses, it’s still important to track them as a job costs.

Some businesses may also want to record mileage as a job cost. If you or someone who works for your business has to drive to deliver the product or service to customers, then you should calculate and track mileage. Quickbooks will display an “Enter Vehicle Mileage” window, which you can use to track the number of miles driven to complete the job.

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Has your business received an underpayment from a customer? Known as an underpayment, this occurs when a customer pays an amount that’s lower than the cost of the product or service your business sold to them. Underpayments can occur for a variety of reasons, the most common of which is human error. While attempting to collect the difference between the underpayment and the cost of the product or service is always an option, many businesses prefer to write off the difference because it’s easier and faster. In Quickbooks, you can write off underpayments such as this using the accounting software’s “discounts” feature.

Steps to Writing Off an Underpayment

To write off an underpayment in Quickbooks, log in to your Quickbooks account and create a charge off account. This is done by choosing “Chart of Accounts” from the “Lists” menu. After accessing the “Lists” menu, select Account > New > Income > Continue. For the “Account Name” field, type “A/R Charge Off,” followed by “Save & Close.” You can technically create any name for the “Account Name,” but using “A/R Charge Off” will help you remember that the write off was for an accounts receivable that was charged off and forgiven.

With the new account created, you’ll need to add a charge-off item to it. This is done by going back to the “Lists” menu and choosing “Item Lists.” Next, click Item > New. For the “Item Type,” select “Other Charge,” followed by “Continue.” For the “Item Name” field, type “Charge Off .” Quickbooks will then ask you for some other basic information associated with the account, including the type of account. For the account type, choose “Minor A/R Charge Off.” For the tax code, choose “Non-Taxable Sales.” When finished, click “OK” to complete the process.

There are a few more steps to writing off an underpayment. Go back to the “Customers” menu in Quickbooks and click “Receive Payments.” Scroll through the list and click the name of the customer who made the underpayment to your business. You must then choose the invoice that associated with the underpayment, followed by “Discounts & Credits.” In the “Discounts” menu, enter the difference between the underpayment and original cost of the product or service. Next, choose “Minor A/R Charge Off” for the “Discount Account” section, followed by “Done.” Quickbooks will now write off the underpayment so that it doesn’t increase your business’s taxable income.

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If you run a small- or medium-sized business, you might be wondering how to set up and track inventory in Quickbooks. Intuit’s popular business accounting software is loaded with useful features, including inventory tracking. Also known as stock tracking, this allows you to track the products your business sells by one or more criteria. Unfortunately, many business owners overlook inventory tracking, believing it’s too difficult to set up and, therefore, not worth the effort. However, Quickbooks makes it easy to set up inventory tracking. Just follow the steps listed below.

The Different Ways to Track Inventory

Quickbooks supports four different methods for tracking inventory. First, you can track inventory by quantity, such as the number of products that your business buys or sells in a given period. Second, you can track inventory by the items that your business buys or sells but can’t use (known as non-inventory items). Third, you can track inventory by services, such as services your business sells and offers to its customers. Fourth, you can track inventory by bundle, which consists of multiple products and/or services that your business sells together as once.

How to Set Up Inventory Tracking

To set up inventory tracking, log in to your business’s Quickbooks account and click the gear icon at the top of the page. Next, click “Account and Settings” below the “Your Company” menu. On the left-hand sidebar, click “Saves.” You should see a new window in the middle of the screen labeled “Products and services.” Look for a pencil icon next to this window and click “Track Inventory.” Assuming you followed these steps, Quickbooks will now enable inventory items under “Products and Services.” You can test this by going back to the main screen and choosing “Products and Services,” followed by “New.” If it worked, you’ll see a new item type here called “Inventory item.”

With inventory tracking enabled, you can now choose “Inventory” as a product type. This essentially allows you to track the products that your business sells by one of the four aforementioned criteria. Not all businesses need to track inventory — and that’s okay. However, if your business sells a lot of products, tracking products is usually a good idea. It provides you with invaluable data on where your products are being sold and how they are bold sold. Using this information, you can optimize your business’s strategy to achieve greater success.

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As a business owner, it’s important that you monitor your business’s financial transactions on a regular basis. If you don’t know where your money is going, or where it’s coming from, you won’t be able to optimize your business’s operations to achieve the highest possible profits. Using Quickbooks, however, you can easy view transaction changes using the accounting software’s Audit History.

What Is Audit History?

Audit History is a feature in Quickbooks that allows you to view all changes made on a transaction. It’s not uncommon for multiple people to access a business’s Quickbooks account. If you run a medium-sized business, for example, there may be several other corporate executives, as well as professional accountants, who regularly use your business’s Quickbooks account. As a result, some of these users may make changes to one or more transactions. Using Audit History, you can see who exactly made changes to a transaction recorded in your business’s Quickbooks account.

How to Use Audit History

To use Audit History, log in to your Quickbooks account and open the transaction that you’d like to view changes for. It’s important to note that Audit History only works with a single transaction. You can not use it to view changes on multiple transactions simultaneously. Rather, you’ll need to open and view each transaction separately to see their respective changes and who made those changes.

With the transaction open, click the “More” link at the bottom of the page, followed by “Audit Trail.” You should now see the Audit Trail featuring all changes made to the respective transaction. As you go through these changes, you can see who made them as well as when they were made.

What About Audit Log?

You can also use the Audit Log to view changes made to your business’s transactions in Quickbooks. The key difference between the Audit Log and Audit History, however, is that only the Audit Log allows you to view changes made to multiple transactions. To use this feature, log in to your Quickbooks account and click the gear icon at the top of the page, followed by “Tools.” Next, select “Audit Log” from the drop-down menu, at which point you can filter the results by user, date and events. The Audit Log in Quickbooks will show up to 150 transaction records at once. However, you can view more records by clicking “More” at the bottom of the screen.

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