Accounting News
Problems, outages, and quirks that QuickBooks users are reporting — tracked and explained by the desk.
Integrations & Third-Party Apps
A look at the steps and decisions WooCommerce users face when linking their store to QuickBooks Online through the QuickBooks Connector app.
Accounts Receivable
QuickBooks Desktop users in French Canadian files see AR in the chart of accounts differ from AR reports. We explain the causes and the accepted fixes.
Reports
Learn why Accounts Receivable or Accounts Payable may show balances on a cash‑basis Balance Sheet in QuickBooks Online and what steps resolve the issue.
Invoicing & Estimates
A recurring QuickBooks question is how to bill a client in stages from a single estimate without losing track of what remains unpaid.
Permissions & Settings
Learn how QuickBooks Time mobile time entry settings interact with individual team member permissions and how to resolve conflicts.
Custom Fields & Tags
QuickBooks tags are being phased out for new users starting May 2025, with existing users retaining access until 2028. Learn the migration paths and platform differences.
Ledger & Accountant Tools
QuickBooks Ledger and QuickBooks Cabinet only Ledger differ on client access, bank tasks, and reporting. Here is what changed after August 1, 2024.
Network & Multi-User
QuickBooks Desktop users seeing File Doctor's hosting mode is disabled result can lose multi-user access; here is what it means and how to fix it.
Tax Forms
Canadian QuickBooks Online users wonder whether a subcontractor needs a T4A or T5018 slip and how to configure the software to avoid filing errors.
Reports
Why QuickBooks Desktop scheduled reports fail to go out, the conditions that must hold at send time, and how users fix it.
Sales Tax
Users struggle to pay sales tax in QuickBooks Desktop, often using the wrong menu path and landing in the Pay Sales Tax window instead.
Banking
Users often struggle to create, edit or print checks in QuickBooks Desktop, and the community solution provides clear steps to fix each issue.
Time Tracking
QuickBooks Time managers face confusion over manual entry, team clock-ins, and permission limits. The accepted answer maps each fix.
Banking & Feeds
QuickBooks Online users need different bounced check entries depending on whether the bank covered the check, returned it, or the vendor redeposited it.
System Requirements
Users report QuickBooks Desktop 2023 installer and startup failures tied to unsupported Windows, 32-bit systems, ARM chips, and virtualization.
Payroll
A failed payroll debit suspends QuickBooks Payroll until the shortfall is repaid, and the return code inside Intuit's alert decides which fix applies.
Desktop Sunset & Upgrades
QuickBooks discontinues live support, payroll, payments, and online banking for Desktop 2023 versions after May 31, 2026. Here is what changes.
Payroll
A look at how users locate, customize, and print payroll reports in QuickBooks Online Payroll and QuickBooks Desktop Payroll, and what trips them up.
Multi-Currency
QuickBooks Online users see home currency adjustment journal entries with a 0.00 amount. Here is what the entry means and how to review revaluation history.
Backup & Data Protect
QuickBooks Desktop users report Intuit Data Protect backups failing. Firewall exceptions, a clean reinstall, and an updated version restore service.
Sales & Products
How to set up non-inventory and service items in QuickBooks Online, including costs, categories, and making items inactive when needed.
Payroll
Users who run payroll in an outside service can record paycheques in QuickBooks Online with a journal entry that splits wages, taxes, and liabilities.
Sales Tax
A plain-language guide to the sales tax concepts behind QuickBooks Online's Automated Sales Tax, including nexus, sourcing, use tax, and exemptions.
Lists & Names
A name entered as a Customer, Vendor, or Employee cannot be switched in place. Users must rebuild the entry and reassign every transaction by hand.