5 Laws Anyone Working in quick books tool hub Should Know
Reverting back to a helpless child as an adult is one of the most humiliating and helpless things anyone could ever experience. Wearing adult diapers and adult bibs, being unable to walk more than 20 feet or so without resting, becoming forgetful, and relying on others to care for youabsolutely dreadful for everyone involved. Yet the use of the chores that millions across the world face each and every day that they care for people at the special needs.
I've always figured that, when I get older, I was going to live alone in isolation. That way I could just slip away as opposed to being a burden on anyone else. I won't have to live being spoon fed, with the contents dripping down the front of my adult bib. I would much prefer dying than not being able to care for myself and having to wear an adult bib.
That is of course the typical reaction of a young person, but as the grim realities of age creep up on them, their attitude tends to change a bit. Is having to wear an adult bib enough reason to end it all? I wouldn't think so. What about adult diapers? Humiliating yes, but for many, life continues. And in that way, one by one the ravages of age creep up on you until it is not just adult bib and adult diaper, but senility and dementia, brittle bones and feeble mind, liver spots and arthritis. Wow, this has gotten really depressing hasn't it? I guess it basically comes down to the fact that you do the very best you can with what you have. As many people with faith would say, God will never give you anything that you cannot handle.
But just the same I think I would love quietly in seclusion in my late years. That way, as long as I am reasonably fit, I continue to live, but there is a built in safeguard to keep me from becoming a living vegetable by degrees. There is nothing so humiliating about an adult bib if you are the only one there eating, but as soon as it gets to be too much, or life starts to become too tired, I'll be able to do it.
Jump off a cliff if I'm feeling frisky, run in front of a car if I'm mischievous, or if I've mellowed in my days, simply overdose on sleep pills and call it a night - forever. Sounds like a pretty easy way to take care of things doesn't it? People get so hung up on life that they will put up with any indignity - from adult bib to permanent tube feeding and life support - just to extend their life by another month or so. I've never really understood this because in my opinion it's not about the quantity of life, but the quality. Of course, to each his own.
Once you have been using QuickBooks for a while you will wonder why it is so affordable. With all of its features and capabilities it is really an excellent package. The reason why it is so affordable is because there are over 4 million businesses using it. I am not 100 percent sure if that should be 4 million users or 4 million businesses. Either way it is still an extremely popular package.
Issues
To use it for a tool hire/rental business the way I am doing, I must quickbookstoolhub.exe warn you upfront that there are 2 procedures that it cannot do.
Customizing
The way I customized it for our tool hire / rental business is really very simple. It is just a matter of customizing the invoice, estimates, orders and sales receipts templates. Firstly the estimates templates I made 3 templates - "Contract", "Quote" and "Pro-Forma" templates. The invoice, orders and sales receipts templates I merely customized with our logo etc.
Procedures
The following procedures are a brief outlines of how to set it up for tool hire / rental business and normal retail business as well. I will elaborate on each in forthcoming articles.
Installing
I started by downloading the Simple Start edition (to test and ensure we could run our tool hire business with it) and then progressed on to 2008 Pro. As you install it prompts you through setting up your company / business, making the install very simple. Like I said in the first article the installation and setup is very easy.
Accounts
Most of the accounts you will use are already set up in the installation. All I added were two more accounts - you will see later how it all fits together. These accounts were:
Items
If you are converting from a previous system you can upload your Items for hire and sale via excel. I did this and it was really simple. By the way the same can be done for accounts as well. The trick here is that when you add your items - make your rental items "Service" items and sale items "Stock" items.
Customers & Suppliers
Once again if you are converting, both customers and suppliers can be imported quite easily. I managed to import them after our month end with all their existing balances. Otherwise you just add customers and suppliers.
Finally Reports
This is the best of all as all the reports you need are there already. All you have to do is customize them. For example I customized the estimates report to show all current contracts out. This merely picks up all "active" "estimates". When the items are returned all you do is create the invoice from the estimate(contract), go back to the estimate(contract) and uncheck the "active" indicator.
Well that's brief but really that is all there is to it. You do not even have to run a month end like most of other systems make you. I will go through each procedure in more detail in the following articles.