QuickBooks Connect 2018 Exhibitor Preview - Part 2

QuickBooks Connect is being held November 5 - 7, 2018 at the San Jose (California) Convention Center. Leading up to QuickBooks Connect our coverage will include a preview of featured exhibitors.

QuickBooks Connect - Level 1 Exhibitors

In this article we will give you a preview of several of the 'Level 1 Exhibitors' at this year's conference.

Core by BQE

Core by BQE is the next generation of business software designed for the heart, soul and mind of your business. With its cutting-edge design and “smart automation,” Core can help transform ordinary accounting and project management into extraordinary business intelligence. This will give you all the information you need and want in the way that makes the most sense for your business.

Core is not only the evolution of a series of BQE products, but an entirely new way of looking at business software. It features the best designs and features of all the BQE products, with almost unlimited preference-based customization within a totally new platform, configured for the way that businesses work today, including remote and mobile.

If you are ready to upgrade your business software to something better, then stop by the Core by BQE booth on the exhibit hall floor and let them give you a demonstration of their beautiful software.

Canon

Canon, the leading name in images, is also a leading name in scanners. They offer a full range of imageFormula scanners including portable-units, desktop-units, wireless and networked units, and high-speed/high-capacity units. Now Canon offers even more scanner related simplicity with Scan for QuickBooks Online which provides an easy to use method to directly store your important expense transactions in QBO.

Scan for QuickBooks Online is a web application that gives your browser access to your imageFormula scanner without the need for specialized scan software. It will save you time and improve your productivity by providing seamless integration with QuickBooks Online. It enables users to scan files, such as invoices or receipts, directly to new Expense Transactions in QuickBooks Online with no scanning software needed. Along with direct scanning to QuickBooks Online, users are able designate the account, category and receipt amount, making each scan as efficient as possible.

If you want to know more about Canon imageFormula scanners, or Canon’s new ‘Scan for QuickBooks Online’ feature just stop by the Canon booth on the exhibit hall floor.

CorpNet

CorpNet.com is an online legal document filing service that makes business formations and corporate compliance filings simple for Accountants, CPAs, Tax professionals and business advisors with helping clients in starting a business or who have an existing business.

Their southern California-based team helps new and existing business owners and licensed professionals by providing the most comprehensive cost-effective services when it comes to starting, protecting and managing a business, such as setting up a corporation or LLC, filing a Sole Proprietorship/DBA or keeping an existing business in corporate compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements and more across all 50 States.

You can increase revenues and expand your ‘trusted advisor’ services by partnering with CorpNet.com as a referral or a re-seller partner. For more information, visit their booth on the QuickBooks Connect exhibit hall floor.

Expensify

Expensify delivers cloud-based receipt and expense management with a user-friendly web and mobile application. With direct integrations to all major accounting software, Expensify automates the expense reporting process from receipt to reimbursement.

With features such as SmartScan OCR receipt tracking technology, corporate card reconciliation, and automatic reimbursement, Expensify offers automated, real-time expense reports that save time and increase efficiency.

As the only receipt and expense management partner of the AICPA and CPA.com, Expensify automates the entire pre-accounting process with the industry's most user-friendly mobile and web application.

Expensify offers QuickBooks Online integration, SmartScan OCR, next-day reimbursement, and many more time-saving automation features. It also allows users to export their reports from Expensify into QuickBooks Desktop via the Expensify Sync Manager.

Be sure to check out the Expensify booth for information on their product offerings and ProAdvisor partner program.

Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a software add-on for QuickBooks that maximizes inventory. manufacturing and warehousing processes. Fishbowl works with QuickBooks Online just as well as it does with QuickBooks Desktop.

There are three different flavors of Fishbowl built around a common core. One flavor is Fishbowl Inventory, the second is Fishbowl Warehouse and the third is Fishbowl Manufacturing. Fishbowl offers sales orders, work orders, production orders, purchase orders, outsource tracking and parts scheduling as well as pricing rule variability and several cost valuation methods (average, LIFO, FIFO, actual), as well as a built-in customer relations management feature.

As if traditional Fishbowl wasn't enough, they are now offering a Software-as-a-service (SAAS) application called Boxstorm that provides inventory features specifically for QuickBooks Online. This isn’t just Fishbowl running on a cloud server connecting to QBO; this is an application designed for cloud computing. You can access Boxstorm from any computer browser, as well as tablets and smartphones. Boxstorm offers a free-version of their software that allows you to save, scan, move, and cycle count your inventory. It is the first 'free forever' inventory solution to integrate with QuickBooks Online.

So, if you are looking for inventory, manufacturing or warehouse solutions that work with QuickBooks be certain to stop by the Fishbowl booth on the exhibit hall floor.

FundBox

FundBox believes that only business owners can help their business flourish, and that they need to focus on their business, worry less about collections, and not stress over long-term financing commitments that don’t make sense. FundBox knows that what business owners need is a little help from time to time to ensure that they get money when needed, and that they need to know that it will be available when they need it.

What FundBox offers isn’t ‘a loan,’ it’s a different way of managing your cash flow. They don’t purchase your receivables or use them as collateral; they simply ‘advance you the value of one or more of your outstanding invoices’ which you pay back with a clearing-fee over a 12 or 24 week period. In other words, instead of you struggling for 90-days to get what your clients owe you, the FundBox advance allows you to continue doing what you do best, the work.

As a ProAdvisor, Bookkeeper, Accountant or Business Consultant you definitely should consider the FundBox Partner Program in which, if you refer a client to them who becomes a ‘qualified customer,’ FundBox will pay you either a cash or equivalent compensation as a discount on your own FundBox advances. So make certain to stop by the FundBox booth in the exhibit hall to find out how you and FundBox can team up for alternative funding options for you and your clients.

Gusto

Nine out of ten Gusto customers say that Gusto is easier to use than other payroll solutions they had tried. And Gusto customers spend 75% less time on payroll than before they used Gusto. 

Gusto believes that humans aren’t resources, that’s why they are fundamentally changing how the world works by empowering everyone to put people first. Gusto has re-imagined payroll, benefits, HR, and personal finance by automating the most complicated, impersonal business tasks and making them simple and delightful.

Gusto is proud to partner with thousands of accountants to help businesses across the country seamlessly manage their payroll, compliance, and benefits, so they can get back to doing what they love. If  you would like to see Gusto in action or find out more about how you can partner with them to benefit your clients, just stop by the Gusto booth in the exhibit hall at QuickBooks Connect.

Patriot Software

Patriot Software provides fast, simple and affordable payroll software. With their ‘Basic Payroll’ you will easily run your own payroll and handle payroll taxes yourself. Patriot’s ‘Full-service Payroll’ let’s you run your own payroll, and then they handle all your payroll taxes. Patriot also offers ‘Time & Attendance’ to simplify your payroll and timekeeping as well as ‘HR Software’ to streamline your Human Resource processes.

As a ProAdvisor, Accountant, CPA or Bookkeeper, you can earn revenue when you join Patriot’s Royalty Program. You will be able to process payroll for your clients as a Certified Advisor for as low as $10/client/month and $.50 per employee. There is no charge to sign up for this program.

If you are looking to add payroll and human resources to your service offerings, or to change how your provide those services you will want to make certain to stop by the Patriot Software booth in the exhibit hall to learn more about the product offerings and 'Certified Advisor' program.

SOS Inventory

SOS Inventory is a complete inventory, order management and manufacturing solution featuring tight integration with QuickBooks Online. SOS was built for QuickBooks Online from the ground up and was the very first inventory software to connect to QBO. SOS has a new and modern looking graphical interface, performance enhancements and improved manufacturing capabilities including process manufacturing.

SOS covers the entire life-cycle or your inventory-based or light-manufacturing business. SOS makes it easy to convert raw materials into finished goods and tracking work-in-progress. With SOS you can track serial numbers and lots/batches and sync them to QuickBooks Online. SOS allows you to receive, ship out of, and transfer stock within one, or any number of business locations. You can set customer-unique pricing and vendor-specific costs, add custom fields to track specific data you need, and much more.

SOS offers users two workflows. While most applications ‘take over’ key areas related to inventory when they are connected to QuickBooks Online, SOS is different. One workflow permits QBO users to continue to process most transactions normally within QBO, then SOS reads those transactions and generates the related SOS records automatically. The second, and more common workflow has day-to-day operations like sales, purchasing, shipping and manufacturing entered into SOS which synchronizes them QBO so that your financial data is up-to-date.

So, if this sounds like the software-as-a-service App you have been needing for QBO be sure to stop by the SOS booth in the exhibit hall.

Stay tuned for more QuickBooks Connect Vendor Previews we will be posting every few days between now and the conference. And remember, it's not too late to register for the conference if you haven't done so already, at the official QuickBooks Connect 2018 Registration webpage. For information regarding travel, location details including parking, and nearby hotels, see the official QuickBooks Connect Travel webpage.