Less Accounting Review – a 10 part series – The Signup
I recently signed up with Less Accounting and I will be publishing a Less Accounting review and experiences with the setup process here (read the introduction). Introduction My accounting background The Signup (This post) Import Quickbooks File Wire Account Set Recurring Hook up Bank Account Hook Up American Express Account Less Accounting – One Week Later Less […]
Less Accounting Review – Intermission Part II
It’s been a little while since my last update. I have finally gotten all of the invoices (ten years worth) into Less Accounting. For some reason their import procedure marked them all as drafts and did not import the invoice numbers, which pretty much made them useless and I had to go in and change […]
Less Accounting Review – Intermission
I haven’t been blogging any more about my Less Accounting experience, largely because I haven’t made much progress in actually using it. Much as recessions will reveal what auditors cannot, changing accounting systems reveals Quickbooks flaws that will not come up in any other way. Everything has been on hold while everything gets properly imported […]
Less Accounting Review – Part 1, My Accounting Background
I recently signed up with Less Accounting and I will be publishing a Less Accounting review and experiences with the setup process here (read the introduction). Introduction My accounting background (This post) The Signup Import Quickbooks File Wire Account Set Recurring Hook up Bank Account Hook Up American Express Account Less Accounting – One Week Later Less […]
Less Accounting Review – a 10 part series – Introduction
I recently signed up with Less Accounting and I will be publishing a Less Accounting review and experiences with the setup process here Introduction (this post) My accounting background The Signup Import QB File Wire Account Set Recurring Hook up Bank Account Hook Up Amex Account Less Accounting – One Week Later Less Accounting – […]
Why bother with E-Checks?
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 […]
Adventures with PayPal Website Payments Pro and Authorize.net
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 […]
A lesson learned in QuickBooks – Capital Investments is a magic phrase
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 Does anyone know of any good online only business banks? This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with […]
A partial list of my entrepreneurial weaknesses, and one time steps to correct them
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. QuickBooks Problem: I am terrible at […]
Is it time to replace QuickBooks with Less Accounting?
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 […]