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Inventory Assemblies, Builds & Pending Builds

Assembly Items: What are they? How does this affect my inventory?Inventory Assemblies are items that are used on Invoices, Sales Receipts and Purchase Orders where several items on the Items List make up the whole item that is sold or purchased. Assemblies combine inventory part items and other items to create a single item. This is the method for defining a Bill of Materials which is a list of the component parts. When building an assembly you can add Non-inventory parts, Other charge items,...

What is Unit of Measure?

Unit of Measure is a Preference within the QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and QuickBooks Premier that allows for Items to be entered using the manner they are shipped and then sold at different units. As an example, an inventory item is purchased by the foot, but sold by the inch or a gallon of liquid is purchased, but sold by the pint. Unit of Measure allows for tracking for this type of purchasing and selling. Turning on the Preference for Unit of Measure: Go to Edit on the top...

Error 190000: Can not save the data. The session property is not link to a session record id ###

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788.When attempting to save and print a new sales receipt or during a financial exchange with QuickBooks, the following message is returned: Error 190000: Can not save the data. The session property is not linked to a session record id #################To resolve this issue: Update your program to the most current release and restart the computer.If updating to the latest release does not resolve the issue, examine the Power Options of the...

Unlock Basic to Pro to Multi-Store in QuickBooks Point of Sale

How do I unlock QuickBooks Point of Sale to a higher level?Questions? Talk to our experts at (800) 609-0788.This article describes the procedure of unlocking your existing QuickBooks POS license to a higher level. It works for unlocking QuickBooks POS 9.0 Basic to Pro, and Pro to Multi-Store. For the QuickBooks POS 10.0 it works if you need to unlock from Free edition to Basic or Pro level (not on trial basis) and from Basic to Pro.If you have not purchased the unlock yet DO NOT DO IT IN...

Service Items

Services are different things within your business that you either charge for or purchase. The first picture shows the basic Service type when you select to create a Service Item. Services can be a multitude of items that are not usually tracked through Cost of Goods Sold or asset accounts.This second picture shows the only required fields when creating the item. For most items, these are the only required fields other than the selection of the type of item. The next picture shows the...

What information is shared during a financial exchange?

What information is transfered between QuickBooks financial and QuickBooks Point of Sale?Questions?  Talk to our experts at (800) 609-0788.There have been a few questions lately concerning items in the QuickBooks financial program after linking to QuickBooks Point of Sale.  Hopefully this will clear that up.  By the way, the information in the chart below is taken directly from the QuickBooks Point of Sale help files.  Simply search on Financial Exchange in the program help...

Installing and receiving errors about Microsoft .NET Framework

 When installing Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, Premier or Pro products, there are times when errors will occur. One of the most common errors involves a message indicating that a third part component could not be installed called the Microsoft .NET Framework.The version of the Intuit QuickBooks program will make a difference as to which Microsoft .NET Framework is shown in the error. There can be other issues with operating system on the computer. The operating system, Microsoft...

Change item prices for assembly by percentage of unit cost

Sometimes it is necessary to adjust a price on an item that is part of an assembly.To change this price, using the percentage method follow the steps below.→ Go to the Customer menu and select Change Item Prices→ Choose the Item Type for the prices that need an adjustment→ In the check mark column, click the items that need adjusting→ Enter the percentage for the change in the Adjust open box→ Select which price to adjust by choosing either Current Price or Unit Cost→ Click on...

Change a tax rate in Point of Sale when it is configured to exchange data with QuickBooks

Questions about the software? Call us at 800-609-0788.When using Point of Sale in conjunction with QuickBooks, sales tax rates need to be changed in QuickBooks prior to the new rate changing in Point of Sale. To update the sales tax rate:In QuickBooks:Choose Lists > Item List.Double-click the sales tax that is to be editedOn the Edit Item screen that is displayed, change the rate. Click OK to save.In Point of Sale:Choose Financial > Update QuickBooks. When the exchange completes, click...

Account called *Undeposited Funds appears in the QuickBooks chart of accounts.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788.Why this is happeningIn QuickBooks, received payments are processed using either the Enter Sales Receipts or the Receive Payments feature. The first time either of these features is accessed, QuickBooks creates a default account called Undeposited Funds to temporarily hold payments that will be included in group deposits.If data is imported from QuickBooks to create a file in QuickBooks Point of Sale before a received payment is processed,...

Renaming the qbprint.qbp file

What is the qbprint.qbp and what does it do?All versions of QuickBooks programs have a qbprint.qbp file on the computer. This file creates a line entry for each form that is printed from QuickBooks. When a form is customized or a template for a form created, a line is generated and put in the qbprint.qbp file to hold the settings for the form. Some of the forms affected by this are the invoice, credit memo, sales receipt, purchase orders, statements, general journal entries, and estimates....

Allowed Activities By Store Type in QuickBooks POS

Allowed Activities By Store Type in QuickBooks Point of Sale (Multi-Store)Questions?  Talk to our experts at (800) 609-0788There have been cases where people have upgraded from the Pro level of QuickBooks Point of Sale to Multi-Store only to find that the remote stores were lacking functionality that was deemed absolutely necessary.  BEFORE changing to a multi-store environment and changing a store to a remote store, check the following chart.  This chart will show you what...

Inventory Reminders in QuickBooks Point of Sale Multi-Store environment

Why can't I see the inventory reminder sticky notes at my remote store?Questions? Ask our experts.  Call us at (800) 609-0788I noticed a question today in the QuickBooks Point of Sale community forums that had gone unanswered for a while.  The fact that it was unanswered for that length of time tells me that the answer to his question was not widely known.  The person was asking why they could not see inventory reminder sticky notes at his remote store.Of course the reference to...

Re-brand bank account for Online Banking in QuickBooks Pro, Premier, or Enterprise.

Sometimes it is necessary to reset the online bank account. Here are the steps to use for re-branding a Web Connect bank account for online access in QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, or QuickBooks Enterprise.  Always back up the company file before making these changes.After backing up the file, Lists > Chart of AccountsRight click on the bank accountLeft click on Edit AccountIn the Edit window, click the Online Services tabSelect the Deactivate all online services radio buttonSave...

Error 1328 – How to resolve

 Error 1328 occurs when the installer encounters a file of a different version than it expects.This error can happen during the repair process, as well as other times when installing, updating, or uninstalling any version of QuickBooks, not just Enterprise. Most of the time this error is harmless and if Ignore is continually selected, the process will complete successfully.  The message received usually refers to a specific file. The error looks something like: c:config.msiPT**.TMP....