New Features
Email enhancements
Split jobs on bank statement import
Notes added to Transactions
Paid today enhancements
Visible outstanding credits in sales
Introduction
Learn about your AccountEdge software
Manuals
Online help
Other resources
Where to start
Explore your AccountEdge software
Command centers
Action menu
Calendar (date entry)
Calculator
Zoom arrows
Search icons
Select columns
Mouse shortcuts
Shortcut keys
Default screen font
Spell-check
Setting up your company file
Overview
Create a company file
Easy setup assistant
Set up preferences
Set a password for the company file
Set up accounts
Enter account opening balances
Advanced setup
Overview
Set up sales
Do an initial bank reconciliation
Task 1: Identify uncleared withdrawals and deposits
Task 2: Record uncleared withdrawals and deposits
Task 3: Reconcile
Set up Credit Card Processing
Activating Credit Card Processing
Web Pay Setup
Web Store Setup
Manage AccountEdge Connect
Manage AccountEdge Mobile
Manage Rerun
Banking
Receiving money
Bank deposits
Spending money
Entering transactions in the Bank Register window
Transferring money between accounts
Tracking petty cash expenses
Recording miscellaneous transactions
Credit card transactions
Credit card payments using Merchant Account Service
Processing credit card payments using Merchant Account Service
Declined authorization
Timed-out authorization
Voiding Merchant Account Service credit card payments
Reconciling your bank accounts
Undoing an account reconciliation
Importing statements
Analyzing your cash flow [Windows only]
Sales
Creating a Lead Card
Creating a customer card
Entering sales
Task 1: Enter information about the customer
Task 2: Choose the type of sale
Task 3: Enter the items or services you are selling
Task 4: Enter additional information about the sale
Task 5: Complete the sale
Adding and deleting transaction lines, subtotals, and headers in sales transactions
Changing the status of a sale
Reviewing your sales information
Receiving payments
Printing payment receipts
Printing and emailing payment receipts
Credit control
Credit limits
Credit holds
Customer credits
Settling credits
Accounting for bad debts
Process Web Orders
Items
Creating items
Customizing Items
Creating custom lists
Custom lists and item reports
Creating brands list
Brands list and sales reports
Weight
Creating custom fields
Creating tags list
Tag list and item reports
Lists
Adding a record
Adding records using Easy-Add
Setting up tax codes
Finding a record
Changing a record
Inactivating or reactivating a record
Deleting a record
Combining records
Combining cards
Combining accounts
Combining items
Tracking Mileage
Company vehicles list
Mileage Rates
Mileage Slips
Email Templates
Transactions
Finding a transaction
Changing or deleting a transaction
Changing a transaction
Deleting a transaction
Reversing a transaction
Recurring transactions
Setting up recurring transactions
Recording recurring transactions
Reminders
Create copy of a transaction
Publishing to iCal
Publishing an invoice to iCal
Publishing a recurring transaction to iCal
Publishing a reminder log to iCal
Reports
Producing reports
Customizing reports
Task 1: Select the data to be printed
Task 2: Select the required fields
Task 3: Select finishing options
Task 4: Change the report format
Task 5: Print the report
Task 6: Save the report
Changing the default fonts on reports
Frequently used reports
Overview of report details
Forms
Finding forms
Sending forms
Sending forms when you record a transaction
Sending forms in a batch
Advanced filters
Customizing forms
Task 1: Display the form
Task 2: Set up form properties
Task 3: Add and edit elements
Task 4: Preview the customized form
Task 5: Save the customized form
Task 6: Print the customized form
Changing the default fonts on forms
Adding and editing elements
Adding and editing data and label elements
Adding and editing graphic elements
Editing all elements with common commands
Contact management
Creating a card
Keeping in touch with your contacts
Personalized letters
Mailing labels
Reminder log
Other ways to keep in touch
Grouping your contacts
Custom lists
Customizing cards
Card identification codes
Card pictures
Lead Source and Status
Reviewing your contact information
Financial control
Tracking financial information
Accounts
Jobs
Task 1: Set up a job
Task 2: Assign expenses to the job
Task 3: Bill the customer
Budgets
Entering budget amounts
Budget Shortcuts window
Auditing your records
Reviewing financial information
End-of-period procedures
Month-end procedures
Task 1: Run the Company Data Auditor
Task 2: Reconcile your bank accounts
Task 3: Review reports
Task 4: Send customer statements
Task 5: Record depreciation
Task 6: Lock periods
Starting a new fiscal year
Task 1: Complete month-end tasks
Task 2: Provide information to your accountant
Task 3: Enter end-of-year adjustments
Task 4: Back up your company file
Task 5: Start a new fiscal year
Task 6: Optimize and verify your company file
Managing user accounts and company files
Managing Master Password
Backing up and restoring company files
Servicing your company file
Checking your company file for errors
Optimizing your company file
Purging information that is no longer needed
Troubleshooting file-locking problems
Changing company file date
Troubleshooting your company file
Alert messages—company file
Alert messages—transactions
Importing and exporting data
Exporting data
Importing data
Importing Quicken (QIF) files
Managing import and export records
Using OfficeLink
Viewing reports in Microsoft Excel (OfficeLink)
Modifying OfficeLink templates for Microsoft Excel
Creating personalized letters (OfficeLink)
OfficeLink templates for personalized letters
Viewing reports in Microsoft Excel
Creating personalized letters using OfficeLink
OfficeLink templates for personalized letters
OfficeLink notes and warnings
AppleScripts
Glossary
Index
Tips & Troubleshooting
Transaction tips
Entering a transaction in a closed f
iscal year
Your software does not allow you to enter transactions for closed fiscal years.
If you need to make an adjustment in a closed period, you can restore the backup you made before closing the previous fiscal year, make the change in the backup files and reprint your reports. Before you do this, make sure you save a backup of your current company file.
Once you’ve printed reports for the previous year, restore your current backup and enter an adjustment journal entry that reflects the change you made in the closed period.
Note that you are not required to close the fiscal year at a specific time, so you can wait until you’re certain that all transactions and adjusting entries that affect the year have been entered.
Entering transactions that have a future date (post-dated transactions)
If you enter a transaction for a future date (a date that occurs after your computer’s current system date), a warning message appears. Click
OK
. You can then continue entering the transaction or change the date if you entered it in error.
Note that if you record a transaction with a future date, that same date will appear as the default entry for your next transaction and no alert message will appear.
tip :
Run the Company Data Auditor before closing a f
iscal
year so that you can detect any future-dated transactions that need to be recorded or corrected.
Finding out which accounts will be updated by a transaction
If you want to see exactly how your accounts will be affected by a transaction before you record it, choose
Recap Transaction
from the
Edit
menu. The
Recap Transaction
window appears showing the list of accounts that will be debited and credited if the transaction is recorded.
Choosing a different
shipping address
If you are entering a sale or purchase and you want the items to be shipped to a different location, use one of the following options:
■
Click the down arrow next to the
Ship
to
field.
■
If you want to select a different address from the selected card, choose
Address 2
,
3
,
4
or
5
.
■
If you want to send the goods to different recipient, choose
Another Card
. In the list that appears, select the card you want to use and click
OK
. The card’s
Address 1
details appears in the
Ship
to
field.
■
If you can’t find the address you want, type it directly into the
Ship
to
field.
Keyboard shortcut—Find Transactions window
You can open the
Find Transaction
window using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+YCOMMAND+Y from any command center.
Keyboard shortcut—Spend Money window
You can open the
Spend Money
window using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+HCOMMAND+H in any window.
Keyboard shortcut—Receive Money window
You can open the
Receive Money
window using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+DCOMMAND+D in any window.
Keyboard shortcut—To Do List window
You can open the
To Do List
using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+TCOMMAND+T in any window.
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