Hi there,

I use ModernBill (no comment) and I kinda need to use QuickBooks too to get my accounting done right. But, alas, it takes ages to "double" the whole customer invoicing process.

What strategies do you guys use?

And please, no comments about MB's "upcoming" quickbooks integration. :rofl: Spare me. Its not gonna be available for years, just like PDFs, and it will likely have bugs to work out at that.

I want to know how people deal with it now. If anyone does currently use a script, then that would be interesting and please let me know.

We use MB and Simply Accounting (pretty much the same thing, just a different piece of accounting software).

In Simply Accounting, we have a customer setup as follows:

MB Sales

Whenever an invoice report comes through, we simply enter it in as a sale to "MB Sales" and be done with it.

It has worked quite well for us thus far.

Originally posted by VanHost
We use MB and Simply Accounting (pretty much the same thing, just a different piece of accounting software).

In Simply Accounting, we have a customer setup as follows:

MB Sales

Whenever an invoice report comes through, we simply enter it in as a sale to "MB Sales" and be done with it.

It has worked quite well for us thus far.

This is the way I have been told to do it as well, but I can't see how you all keep yours books up to date. If you enter all your sales into a generic sales account how do you reconcile your income/bank accounts?

If you receive payments by CC, PayPal, Check, etc how do you reconcile where the payments came from if you are only entering a general sales journal entry.

Also if you don't do double entry how do you seperate out where your money is coming from? I like to know that $100.00 came from domain sales $200.00 came from hosting etc.

I am very interested to hear comments on this, maybe I am just trying to hard to keep track of things.

So far the only way that I can find to keep track of our books correctly is to enter every sale/payment directly into Quickbooks or whatever accounting program you choose.

Thanks,
Phil

bumping for more responses.

I am intrested too :-)

I have already tried to use Quickbooks with Mbill and no luck there. I'm currently using Excel, and that's it. I know how much we make per month, year, etc.. from each client, for each domain, add-on, etc..

It's a pain to setup at first, but you really know what's going on. After that, its just a matter of keeping it up to date and not being lazy about it.