QuickBooks Has a New Sales Tax Report — Is Your POS Telling It the Whole Story?

by Kirk Johnson | Aug 31, 2026 | QuickBooks

Picture a Saturday night close at your restaurant, or a Saturday afternoon at your boutique. The POS spits out a batch report: total sales, tips, and one tidy little “sales tax collected” number. You glance at it, feel fine, and move on. Then quarter-end...

QuickBooks Can Now Send Your Invoices For You — Right From Claude or ChatGPT

by Kirk Johnson | Aug 10, 2026 | QuickBooks

It’s 9 p.m. on a Friday and you just wrapped a $1,400 catering order for a company party down the street. The trays are washed, the van’s back in the lot, and you’re tired. The invoice for that job? It’ll probably get built Monday morning, if...

That Growing “Ask My Accountant” Pile Is Costing You More Than You Think

by Kirk Johnson | Aug 3, 2026 | QuickBooks

It’s a slow Tuesday afternoon and you decide to actually look at your QuickBooks Balance Sheet instead of just glancing at the bank balance like usual. And there it is — a line called “Uncategorized Expenses” or “Ask My Accountant”...

Know What You Have, What It Costs: QuickBooks’ New Inventory Tools for Retailers and Restaurants

by Kirk Johnson | Jul 27, 2026 | QuickBooks

You just finished a Sunday inventory count, and the number staring back at you doesn’t match what you expected. Or worse — you reorder a case of something at $42, then find out three weeks later you’d actually been paying $38 the last two times, and...

QuickBooks Just Made Paying Your Bills Free — Here’s What That Means for Your Cash Flow

by Kirk Johnson | Jul 20, 2026 | QuickBooks

The Monday Bill Run Every retailer and restaurant owner knows this ritual: it’s the first of the month, and you’re sitting down to pay vendors. Produce supplier, linen service, POS software, the plumber who fixed the walk-in cooler. Fifteen, twenty bills,...

Put It In An Envelope: Why Your Sales Tax Isn’t Your Money

by Kirk Johnson | Jul 13, 2026 | QuickBooks

It’s Monday morning and you check your business bank balance: $18,340. Feels good, right? Then you remember Friday’s payroll is $6,200, next month’s sales tax remittance is a little over $2,100, and there’s a vendor bill due Wednesday. Suddenly...