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Post by rustler on Oct 6, 2013 8:08:01 GMT -5
As some background, I am an alpha and beta tester for QuickBooks as well as an Intuit support forum "expert" and use QB for three businesses - both accounting and tax preparation.
I do not use c-pro, but am trying to select consignment software so I read your users manual.
I can state with 100% certainty that if you use the QB export shown in the manual, your QB company file will be incomplete in terms of an income (P&L) statement, and your balance sheet will be wrong. And there is no tracking for the 1099-misc you are required to file if you pay a consignor more than $600 a year.
I wish c-pro had an e-mail address instead of the web form for support, I hate web forms.
If there is a c-pro support person reading this, please contact me my email is in my profile, I am in Texas, central standard time.
From reading the manual I am impressed, though I still have some questions, but the QB export is a problem.
For those thinking of using the QB export - I suggest you back up the QB file, run your balance sheet and P&L, then import, and then run your balance sheet as well as the P&L again and compare.
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Post by anyone on Oct 11, 2013 6:38:15 GMT -5
interesting, 5 days, 10 views, no emails, no response
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Post by rustler on Oct 23, 2013 15:34:46 GMT -5
I have had a chance to start playing with it. The Balance Sheet is in balance - but only because the QuickBooks import posts sales to Accounts Receivable !!! That is wrong.
What the books are saying after the import, is you had $1,000.00 in sales income (shows under equity on the balance sheet) AND you have $1,000.00 in Accounts Receivable - meaning people owe you $1,000.00.
And the cost of the goods sold? Not posted to QuickBooks at all in that import - I still need to play with the checking import.
the post above that starts "interesting ..." was mine, I did not realize I was not logged in when I posted it.
and here it is 10/23/13 (16 days) and still no response here, or in email, from the company and 27 reads - 3 of them are mine if the forum software isn't set to disregard my computer when reading my own post.
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Post by aghowe on Nov 1, 2013 11:18:41 GMT -5
Hi. Has ConsignPro addressed the QuickBooks issue? We are going to be using the QB import feature. Please share what you have learned.
Thank you!
Anne
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Post by Mongo on Nov 1, 2013 20:46:38 GMT -5
Don't use the export feature. Manually enter the financial data to Quickbooks. That's the only way you'll ever be sure that it's right. I enter my data to Peachtree Accounting on a monthly basis and it's very easy. Even if the export was working correctly it could break with the next s/w update.
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Post by rustler on Nov 4, 2013 6:26:43 GMT -5
Hi. Has ConsignPro addressed the QuickBooks issue? We are going to be using the QB import feature. Please share what you have learned. Don't use it - for sales. It is dead wrong. I set up an excel sheet in the iif format and I input the weekly numbers I get from c-pro to it (I did end up purchasing it). But to do that I had to modify a report too. I used to program data base software, this is software shows that the coder(s) are excellent, yet no one from support has chimed in here or to me in my email regarding this issue or another question I had in a different forum here. Makes me wonder about some other concerns I have too. |
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Post by aghowe on Nov 4, 2013 11:06:30 GMT -5
Hi. Thank you for pointing out these issues with QuickBooks. I am following your posts and they are helpful. Are you using the SmartPricing Feature? I am having problems with it and I am curious what your research shows. Thank you!!
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Post by rustler on Nov 5, 2013 10:46:34 GMT -5
Hi. Thank you for pointing out these issues with QuickBooks. I am following your posts and they are helpful. Are you using the SmartPricing Feature? I am having problems with it and I am curious what your research shows. Thank you!! No I just purchased it, and am setting it up for the store that we will open in a month or so. My wife presently sells women's clothing retail and she wants to open a new store (larger) doing both. So I am filling time with entering inventory presently owned, it irks me that the store type of inventory does not allow for a quantity, and if you use the vendor type it does not allow for size or color. So it is enter the same item repeatedly - sigh. |
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Post by aghowe on Nov 5, 2013 11:23:53 GMT -5
So how are you setting it up? Did you change the Type field to "Brand" and are you entering descriptions under the Description field? Did you tie the Brand field to the Description field? I have been told by ConsignPro that this tie feature is not optimal. Such a shame as that would be of tremendous value. Also note, each list field can only hold 3000 entries. If you have tied the fields together and are entering the same descriptions for each brand you will fill up the description field max very quickly. Please let me know how you are setting it up. Maybe we can get ConsignPro to make some changes. Thanks.
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Post by rustler on Nov 7, 2013 8:43:27 GMT -5
ag, Sorry for the delay in responding I forget to check this forum, I am active on several others and moderate others too.
Right now I have retail inventory in another database program I wrote which we use for sales, then I use an iif export from that program to post monthly totals to QB. So right now all I am wanting to do is get bar code labels for our existing inventory and am entering our inventory numbers into c-pro to get the label printed.
Because of our other program I am not real concerned presently with brands, etc. And we live in a small town, circa 20K people, with one consignment shop presently operating. Our demands from customers will not be the same as those found in a larger town/city based upon our talking with present customers.
once we start taking actual items on consignment then I will address those issues if our customer base requires it.
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