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Coming April, subscibers of Quickbooks Online will be experiencing some changes.  Here's what to expect: According to an email sent out by Quickbooks last week: " Beginning  April 10  and over the coming year, usage limits will go into effect for all QuickBooks Online Simple Start, Essentials, Plus, and Advanced customer". Quickbooks want to make sure they are giving their customers the ultimate experience for their buck. Therefore, they are implementing a variety of plans with usage limits to best fit your business. With this, Intuit has developed a Quickbooks Online Advanced edition for the most avid Quickbooks users who need the most capacity and functionality.  This being said, Quickbooks wants to make sure you are informed about adding additional users before the deadline, " You can stay in your current plan and keep all your data. But you won't be able to manually add an account, user, class or location if it will put you over the lim...

Quickbooks Desktop: Payroll Compliance Update As of the beginning of 2019, Intuit has released a new payroll update (21901), including revised tax tables. This effects both standard and enhanced customers.  According to intuit.com, here's how to check you have the latest update in your system: To confirm that you have received the update, open QuickBooks and choose  Employees; Get Payroll Updates . If you don't see a message that says,  "You are using tax table version: 21901," click  Update .  Get complete instructions. To turn on the  automatic updates  feature in QuickBooks so that you automatically receive payroll updates when they are released, choose  Help > Update QuickBooks . On the  Options  tab, select  Yes  for Automatic Update and check the  Mark All  box to ensure that you receive all updates. If you receive disk deliveries:  The next disk delivery is scheduled for ea...

Ever wondered if there's an easier  way  to navigate Quickbooks Online? Check out these time saving keyboard shortcuts. Press Ctrl + Alt + any one of these keys to complete the desired task. For more tips and tricks, visit the official Intuit Quickbooks website at:  https://quickbooks.intuit.com/accountants/resources/firstuse/productivity/?CID=DR_EM_008_38246_US_ASG Got a Quickbooks Mess? Call the Quickbooks Gal 

Upcoming Changes to Dispute Resolution If you are using QuickBooks to process your payments, Intuit will be implementing new guidelines for simpler dispute resolution (also known as chargeback).Visa is the first payment network to announce their change. Please see Visa’s new guidelines.  The new process will include these changes: New categories - There will be 4 reason code categories grouping 25 reason codes. Faster processing - These new reason code categories will be aligned with two resolution paths: 1.    1.  Fraud and Authorization categories : These categories will make up the bulk of the disputes.   Under a new process called “Allocation,” Visa will automatically check the dispute in real-time and either reject the claim as invalid or assign liability. 2.    2.  Processing Errors and Consumer Disputes Categories : These categories will follow the similar process as exists today for challenging a dispute under th...

Payroll Price changes Effective April 1, 2018 Price increases for QuickBooks Desktop Payroll, QuickBooks Assisted Payroll, Intuit Online Payroll, and Intuit Full Service Payroll are effective starting April 1, 2018 for both new and existing customers. For QuickBooks Desktop and Assisted Payroll, only the base fee is changing. QuickBooks Desktop Payroll: New and Existing customers effective April 1, 2018** Payroll Service Current Price* New Price* Annual Monthly Annual Monthly Basic Payroll $250 $25 $290 $29 Enhanced Payroll $390 $39 $450 $45 ** Only Customers who are on the base fee plus per employee fee are affected by this new pricing. QuickBooks Assisted Payroll: New and Existing customers effective April 1, 2018 Payroll Service Current Price* New Price* Monthly Monthly Assisted Payroll $99 $109 Intuit ...

Nevada Quarterly Bond Assessments Eliminated as of 10/01/2017 As of the fourth quarter in 2017, The Nevada SUI quarterly bond assessment has been terminated. However, the SUI average rate has stayed the same going into 2018. According to a representative from the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) the department anticipates that it has repaid it’s outstanding bond balance completely. Therefore, the Department had decided that the third quarter of 2017 is the last period that employers will pay the bond assessment. Starting the fourth quarter of 2017, employers will not surrender a bond assessment return or pay the bond assessment. As an employer, you should be receiving notice of the elimination of the bond assessment by mail before the fourth quarter SUI tax return. Information for this blog was accumulated from Ernst & Youngs Newsletter. For more information, please visit their website at https://taxnews.ey.com/Login/NewsroomLo...

New Tax Tables! As of 2018, The International Revenue Service (IRS) has established new income-tax withholding tables to accommodate for the 1.5 trillion dollar tax overhaul. This updated version has been the first major rewrite in 30 years. If you are not familiar with this newly passed tax cut, it provides large cuts to corporations and the wealthy while giving mild cuts to middle and lower class. For the latest news on these tax cuts and information for this blog provided by: IRS.gov/Notice1036 Below includes the table for Percentage Method for Income Tax withholding for wages paid in 2018. For tips on how to interpret these tables visit: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/n1036.pdf For all your Quickbooks needs, call the Quickbooks gal!

Your clients Quickbooks are changing! Coming soon to Quickbooks, a change in formatting. Originally, your clients displayed a classic form template. In the next couple of weeks, this will be replaced by the standard form template. However, this will be a simple transition! These two formats are very similar and will be easier for you and your client to display information. Quickbooks has also taken the chance to redesign the screen layout for a less cluttered look. They have also added some new sales form styles and custimization options. WIth this new update your clients will be able to:  Select from multiple templates with different designs Experiment with various colors within statements Pick from a variety of fonts To make sure the new form meets your needs, theres are many customization options. To open your templates, click the  Gear icon > Custom Form Styles .  To change the Standard style for all types of forms, click  Edit  or ...

New Improvements this Month! When using Quickbooks online, you now have the ability to track time more efficiently than ever. Not only does this option have a better look to it, but are now included on your computer and mobile phone. Not only does the mobile option make it easier on employees to report time, but employers to record it. Below, we have displayed both computer and mobile  views. With an update to this option, its goal is to encourage more interaction. Time-tracking employees can enter in time sheets weekly, or by activity. You can also observe summaries for a certain time period as well. Benefit Alert! Solely time-tracking users are non-billable, so small business owners can add as many time trackers and they need in order to run their business efficiently!  Have fun time tracking with this new and improved feature!  For more information, feel free to visit Quickbooks Website @  http://quickbooks.intuit.com/blo...

Does your small business have a social media presence? To expand your presence on social media, it's crucial to be online when your customers are. In order to get the most active viewers per post, schedule when you are sharing the posts you want everyone to see. Audiences differ from site to site, so make sure you know who you are appealing to and when to do it. Here are the most popular times of day people use the top four social media platforms: For more informative facts like these, visit pinterest.com and check out our personal page: @QbGal Got a Quickbooks mess? Call the Quickbooks Gal!

There's no doubt that holidays such as Christmas can put a hole in our wallets, but Easter? According to the National Retail Federation , American's who have decided to celebrate Easter this year are spending on average $152. This sets and new record and is up 4% from last year. Not in the mood to drop almost 200 dollars this weekend? Here's some things you may want to avoid to not break the bank, or your holiday spirits this Spring. #1 Food Over 87% of Americans celebrating Easter spend a majority of their budget on food. Much of this goes to the classic Easter dinner. Combined $5.8 billion nationally will be spend on food for the home for Easter 2017 . In  order to save some money on feeding your loved ones, it may be cheaper to hold a brunch instead. On average, breakfast/lunch foods do not hurt your wallet as much as a full blown dinner would. Make sure when shopping for ingredients, that you make a list and keep to it. Don't let your kids influence ...