Top 5 QuickBooks Online Resources QuickBooks Online Training, Guides, and Other Resources

Glenn Tyndall for About.com writes: Are you looking for resources to help you learn how to use QuickBooks Online? You will find a few excellent resources for the QuickBooks Online edition below. These resources will help you get started using QuickBooks Online, as well as perform more advanced tasks or find answers to other questions that you may have about this accounting software. The list is not a comprehensive list so you will find many additional resources available to you on the web. After reviewing the resources below, you will have answers to most of your QuickBooks questions or have access to training and other materials to get those questions answered. But you can always supplement these aids by other resources that are available to you.

1. QuickBooks Online: Getting Started by Intuit – This guide will help you get started using QuickBooks Online, connect to your bank accounts, create and customize invoices, track your expenses, and perform other basic tasks. This guide was created by Intuit, the company than developed QuickBooks, so it is easy-to-use and accurate since it was made by the developer of the accounting software.
2. QuickBooks Online Support from QuickBooks Online Community. The QuickBooks Online Community is an online question and answer forum, where user-generated questions are answered by other individuals within the community. You can search for answers to many QuickBooks questions, such as “Can I create a report showing the number of shipments for the month without it breaking down the shipping charges?” to “Does QuickBooks Online support multiple currencies and job costing?” Although this forum is not exclusively for QuickBooks Online questions, it contains answers to many QuickBooks Online problems that you may encounter.
3. Mastering QuickBooks Online #1 from QuickBooks Guru. The QuickBooks Guru offers training and tutorials online via Youtube.com. These tutorials are useful for individuals who are visual and auditory learns who prefer a more interactive approach to learning how to use QuickBooks. You can also subscribe to the QuickBooks Guru’s Youtube channel to get access to more QuickBooks Online tutorials if you find this one useful.
4. QuickBooks Simple Start for Dummies.  The popular Dummies.com tutorial series has an online tutorial for getting started with QuickBooks. Like other editions in the dummies series, it is written for the layperson, with practical examples, pictures, and useful practical examples so you will be able to pick up the concepts quickly.
5. QuickBooks Online Tutorials from the Intuit Academy.  The Intuit Academy is where you can find featured training and tutorials on how to use QuickBooks. You can search courses by QuickBooks product to find the resources available specifically for the QuickBooks Online edition.  You will have access to live training, resource materials, and other on-demand training with a subscription to the Intuit Academy.

As mentioned, the above resources are designed to get you started using QuickBooks, get some of your questions answered, and point you in the right direction for additional training and resources. Intuit is always upgrading Intuit and adding new features to the software.  Therefore, resources such as the Intuit Academy that offer continuous training to you are important if you want to stay on top of the QuickBooks Online’s newest features and maximize your productivity and efficiency when using this accounting software. Although this list is designed to get you to resources that can answer a variety of questions you have for the QuickBooks Online edition, you may find other resources on the web that are available to you as well. So if you cannot find an answer here, you should be sure to conduct your own search to help you answer specific questions that remain.