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Jon Goldberg, 03/25/2018 12:41 AM

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# Bookkeeping
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Megaphone Technology uses InvoiceNinja for A/R and Quickbooks Desktop for bookkeeping.
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### Transfer client/invoice data from Invoiceninja
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* Get clients from InvoiceNinja. IN settings » Import/Export » Export Clients to CSV.  Open in LibreOffice Calc.
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* In Quickbooks, Lists menu » Add/Edit Multiple List Entries. List is "Customers".  Paste new clients in the "Name" and "Company Name" columns.
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* From the QB home screen, select "Enter Invoices".  For now, it seems like manually retyping the invoices is the only option.  We just need client name, date, invoice #, item ("IT Consulting" or "Maintenance Plan"), and amount.
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### Enter payments received as credits into Quickbooks
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* Note the last recorded payment in Quickbooks. You can find that by clicking on "Enter Payments" from the home screen, and clicking "back" once.
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* Pull up a list of payments in InvoiceNinja (Payments tab, sort by date)
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* Start entering the payments. Make sure to get the dates correct.
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### Enter invoice payments into Quickbooks
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* Note the last recorded payment in Quickbooks. You can find that by clicking on "Enter Payments" from the home screen, and clicking "back" once.
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* Pull up a list of payments in InvoiceNinja (Credits tab, sort by date, show Archived)
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* Start entering the payments. Make sure to get the dates correct.
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### Cross-check: Compare outstanding client credits/debits in Quickbooks/Freshbooks
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* QB's list is easily available by pulling up the customer center.
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* You can see Invoiceninja balance from the [clients](https://invoices.megaphonetech.com/clients) screen.
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* This is also a good time to mark QB customers inactive that have been marked inactive in FB. Double-click their name and check off "customer is inactive".
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### Record the deposits
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Using either the bank statements or the "Checks Deposited" Google doc, you'll now group your payments into deposits.
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* From the QB home screen, click "Record Deposits".
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* Check off the first group of checks that were deposited together (note that you can slide your mouse over them to check them off faster).
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* Confirm that the Payments Subtotal matches the bank statement, then Press OK.
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* Enter the deposit date, then press "Save and New" until you're done.
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* If your numbers are off, look at "Checks Deposited".
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### Record accounts payable
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Using the bank statements and/or the Amalgamated website, we can put all the payments into Quickbooks. Also a bit long/tedious.
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* From the home screen, click "Write Checks". Click on "Previous" to note the last transaction recorded in QB (excluding any AMEX checks you may have just written).
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* Record payments on the bank statements.
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 * Make sure payments are categorized correctly.
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 * When setting up a new vendor, don't do Quick Add; enter a default category for the payment.
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 * Make sure the date and check number is correct.
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 * The check number for debit card transactions is "DB". The check number for direct transfers from the bank account is "EFT".
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 * Put any memos from the check into the memo field in QB.
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### Reconcile the bank acccount
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Bank reconciliation (aka "bank rec") is a cross-check to ensure that your ending balances in the bank account match that of Quickbooks. You do it once for each physical banks statement you have - though you can also just do it through any date if you know what the ending balance on that day was.
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* On the home screen, press the "Reconcile" button.
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* Enter the Statement Date and the Ending Balance, press "Continue".
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* Check off all the debits and credits that are on or before the statement ending date. If you're lucky, it'll match, and your difference will be $0.00.
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** If not, go through the items one by one (or bifurcate!) and find the discrepancies and correct them.
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### How to handle unusual transactions in Quickbooks:
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* Tax refund: Make Deposits (Rec'd from: NYS Tax and Finance, From Account: Taxes, Memo: NYS Tax Refund, Payment Method: Check, Amount: $73)
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* Bounced checks (to us, not from us: http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/articles/HOW12221)