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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
22h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Finding Third-Party Integrated Applications

Because QuickBooks is so popular with small businesses, plenty of companies besides Intuit develop applications to fill the niches that QuickBooks doesn't handle itself—or doesn't handle very well.

The QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace

The QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace Web site is one place to look for third-party programs. In QuickBooks, choose CompanyOnline Company ServicesFind Integrated Applications to open a browser to the QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace, shown in Figure 21-4.

Programs listed in the Solutions Marketplace share Sharing data with other programsdata with QuickBooks, but target different industries or services. Sure, Intuit offers editions of Manufacturing, Nonprofits, Professional Accountants, Professional Services, Retail, and Wholesale, but the Solutions Marketplace offers additional software in those industries as well as accounting solutions for industries such as agriculture, hotels and restaurants, transportation, and utilities.

Figure 21-4. Programs listed in the Solutions Marketplace share data with QuickBooks, but target different industries or services. Sure, Intuit offers editions of Manufacturing, Nonprofits, Professional Accountants, Professional Services, Retail, and Wholesale, but the Solutions Marketplace offers additional software in those industries as well as accounting solutions for industries such as agriculture, hotels and restaurants, transportation, and utilities.

Tip

If you prefer working in a Web browser window outside QuickBooks, the Web site address for the QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace is http://marketplace.intuit.com.

Third-party programs come in handy even if you already use one of QuickBooks'industry-specific editions. For example, the Solutions Marketplace has programs in the Construction area that produce estimates more easily than QuickBooks'Construction ...

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