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QuickBooks as an accounting software boasts numerous useful features, but one of its most outstanding factors is its app integration capability. Your clients can integrate QuickBooks Desktop for the cloud with a variety of apps depending on your business needs. There are apps for inventory control, sales tracking and management, payroll and leaves tracking, and more.
Best of all, those apps directly export the relevant data to QuickBooks which can save your clients a ton of time and help them be more productive and efficient at business.
QuickBooks ProAdvisors including CPAs, EAs, accountants, bookkeepers, and technology consultants have recommended the following apps that vastly impact the productivity.
Here are the top 5 apps that integrate with QuickBooks:
TSheets
A service company needs to track employee costs and labor hours effectively to accurately price the services. This demands the combined functionality of a time tracker with modules like payroll, employee scheduling, and more.
TSheets precisely fits the bill here as when integrated with QuickBooks, it offers you all those features and more. The app tracks the start and end work timings of the employees through their mobile devices in addition to revealing their real-time locations through GPS tracking technology. With TSheets, managing employees’ work hours, payroll, leaves, and so on. Thanks to this app integration, there is a better control over employees and accurate estimation of labor costs.
Wasp
Inventory management can quite be a task. Manually entering and reconciling inventory data is not just slow and inefficient but prone to error as well. Wasp solves this problem by integrating with QuickBooks Desktop to offer automatic real-time inventory tracking and reconciliation features. Add a sales module to get a trio of apps that together can automate the whole process starting from the recording of a sale to the shipment of the goods and invoicing of the order. Also, Wasp enables better fulfillment of order requirements as inventory levels can be tracked without having to manually record any of that on QuickBooks.
TurnLink Sales Manager
Generating sales can be tough. Having a product that promises compelling value addition is a must, but there needs to be a strong network of suppliers, distributors, and sales representatives. Luckily, TurnLink Sales Manager here does the heavy lifting for you by integrating with QuickBooks and handling multiple orders from different warehouses and distributors. The app also allows you to quickly fill-in supply requisitions from stores by auto-populating those forms with the last order list (which saves you time). Finally, with TurnLink, you can create a sales report with a few clicks which can be helpful both for your accounting and taxation purposes as well as for measuring your overall profitability.
PayPal Plugin
PayPal needs no introduction. In fact, there is a high chance that many of customers prefer to pay for their purchases through PayPal. Thus, the plugin titled ‘QuickBooks Connect to PayPal’ can save hours of effort as it eliminates the need to enter PayPal transactions into QuickBooks manually. With this plugin, the PayPal data is automatically pulled in over to QuickBooks which can be directly used for accounting requirements.
Shopify
Shopify is one of the most popular e-commerce applications for businesses. It allows any business to create an online shop or store without the costs or hassles of coding or building an ecommerce website. This app integration for QuickBooks cloud allows to export all the sales data from Shopify to QuickBooks with a few clicks. Shopify integration also allows to synchronize the sales with the inventory or stock levels as well as account for complete and partial refunds. Therefore, manual data entry requirements into QuickBooks are eliminated thereby saving time and effort.
Help your clients integrate these five apps with their QuickBooks or any other cloud accounting software, and we are certain that they will see an overall boost in their productivity and efficiency in the business.
Author Bio: Wade Dubey has been in the Cloud business for over 15 years. His areas of expertise include Linux and Windows server hosting, software such as Exchange, SharePoint, QuickBooks, and CRM. He leads the company's business development and alliance partner programs including Microsoft, Intuit, and Citrix.