QuickBooks Connect is a great place for QuickBooks Users, Accountants, and Consultants to 'connect' with exhibitors. You might need a specific software App to expand the capabilities of QuickBooks, or you might be looking for a 'service provider' who can help you with some specific aspect of your business or practice.
If you haven't heard automation is the rage when it comes to accounting and bookkeeping, especially for those mundane chores of entering and paying bills, or invoicing your customers and trying to connect. As the world become more and more centered on 'wanting everything' and 'wanting it now', in real-time, the ability to use a service, a process, some software, some hardware, or even a 'bot' (that's short for robot) that makes use of machine learning and artificial intelligence is becoming the normal, not the exception.
Accountants, bookkeepers and business consultants are finding themselves either at the center of implementing, providing or supporting such automation, or they are finding themselves 'out gunned' by firms that do.
QuickBooks Connect is hosting a number of vendors who provide automation solutions for your A/R, A/P and related critical workflows including:
AutoEntry
AutoEntry automates entry of bills, receipts, bank statements, sales invoices & more. AutoEntry is an intelligent, cloud-based solution which eliminates manual data entry for accountants, bookkeepers and small businesses.
Available as a web or mobile app, AutoEntry captures and analyses data from scanned and photographed receipts, invoices, bank and card statements and more, and securely inputs this information into QuickBooks. AutoEntry is a smart solution that remembers how you categorize your expenses, so you won't ever have to categorize them again
Bill.com
Bill.com is the leading business payments company helping over 2M members process $36 billion in payments annually. Bill.com saves companies over 50% of the time typically spent on financial back-office operations by automating end-to-end processes. Bill.com helps businesses connect and do business by tying together finance and accounting programs, banks, customers, vendors, accounting professionals, and documents.
Bill.com not only syncs with QuickBooks, but recently they teamed up with Intuit to offer QBO Online Bill Pay powered by Bill.com. This ‘new integration’ takes place within QuickBooks allowing users to create and pay bills inside QBO even though ‘the magic’ occurs behind the scenes via Bill.com.
ChargeOver
ChargeOver automates your recurring subscriptions and payments to save time, get you paid sooner, and make your customers happy. Real-time syncing with QuickBooks Online, as well as connectivity to Avalera for tax calculation. ChargeOver provides enhanced reporting, automated late-payment follow-up, and everything you need to streamline your subscription business.
ChargeOver can process hundreds - even thousands - of recurring or subscription charges without a single mouse click. ChargeOver allows you to brand every email with your own logo and HTML. With a ChargeOver customer billing portal, customers can pay their invoices 24/7/365.
Chata.AI
Chata.ai is a conversational analytics assistant that helps access, search and analyze your data, any data. Chata improves your relationship with all your data and workflow by connecting to your data, then learning the inner workings of your data, the applying what it learned on a human language basis so you can easily query and analyze your data.
Chata allows you to use your own words to query your data, "how much did I pay John Smith this much for concrete" or "what did Frank spend for a hotel on his most recent trip" or "how much does Big-boy Trucking Owe me for last month's repairs". You can even 'chat with Chata' about the specifics, the deep meaning of your data, and if you need help understanding the answer Chata can give you visual results.
And you just thought stuff like this was 'sci-fi'!
Invoiced, Inc.
Has your business lost control of accounts receivable? Then you need Invoiced, a modern billing system that gives you billing super powers.
Invoiced automates the most tedious billing tasks, like following up with late paying customers, managing recurring billing processes, and administering payment installment plans.
InvoiceSherpa
InvoiceSherpa is a global fintech leader in Accounts Receivable Automation SaaS. The company’s technology and integrated payments solution quickly and easily increases businesses cash flow when synced with Quickbooks.
With stellar 5-star reviews from their users, InvoiceSherpa provides service to 1,000's of companies worldwide with its platform currently managing over $1.5 Billion annually for its clients.
MineralTree
MineralTree provides the easiest to use accounts payable and payment automation solution, giving customers unparalleled visibility and significant cost savings in an affordable, integrated platform that is guaranteed secure. MineralTree for QuickBooks helps middle-market businesses automate AP and reduce time spent by 70%.
MineralTree helps resellers, consultants, CPAs and BPOs expand their service offerings to provide an AP automation solution that integrates with their clients accounting systems and bank accounts. Their Partner Program offers competitive commission plans and a dedicated account manager.
Receipt Bank
Receipt Bank provides technology that unlocks the value of accounting data, automates the bookkeeping process and helps build more valuable accountant-client relationships. Receipt Bank's world class data extraction software makes manual data entry a thing of the past. Its award-winning automation technologies are used by more than 5,000 accounting and bookkeeping firms and thousands of small business customers around the world.
Receipt Bank Extract – its foundation product – enables accountants and bookkeepers to automate the document collection and data extraction process, with unlimited clients and usage. Optimize and refresh your bookkeeping process, and create a profitable workflow with the technology and resources from Receipt Bank.
Be on the look-out for additional articles within Insightful Accountant over the next few days featuring other exhibitors at QuickBooks Connect 2017.