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QuickBooks Online For Dummies, 2026 Edition, 10th Edition

by David H. Ringstrom
November 2025
Beginner
400 pages
8h 16m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Billing Like a Star, Collecting Like a Pro

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Cueing up your customers and managing their records

Bullet Enabling and understanding automated sales tax

Bullet Creating noninventory products and services

Bullet Rolling out invoices, sales receipts, and estimates

Bullet Handling credit memos, refunds, and other special cases

Bullet Finding out how to write off bad debt

Hooray for Hollywood! Have you ever thought about how much managing customers in QuickBooks resembles putting on a show? There’s casting, staging, scripting, and plenty of prep work before the spotlight hits. The same goes for recording sales: Before the revenue takes the stage, you need to get everything ready behind the scenes.

The first three sections of this chapter cover groundwork you need to complete before recording transactions. I start by showing you how to create customer records in QuickBooks, and then I move on to ...

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ISBN: 9781394367177