Author Archive: Charlie
Charlie Russell is the founder of CCRSoftware. He's been involved with the small business software industry since the mid 70's, focusing on inventory and accounting software for small businesses. He is a Certified Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor and participate extensively in the QuickBooks Community user forums under the ID of CCRussell.
CCRSoftware and QuickBooks 2012
QuickBooks 2012 is starting to trickle out, and the big question for CCRQInvoice and CCRQBOM users is “will my programs be compatible with QuickBooks 2012?” There are a lot of improvements in the US version of QuickBooks 2012 for Windows, some of which are VERY interesting. To see a discussion of the new features, go [...]
QuickBooks 2011 and CCRSoftware Compatibility
QuickBooks 2011 (and Enterprise v 11.0) will be shipping to consumers soon, and there are quite a few new and improved features this year. There are some potential compatibility issues with third-party software such as those from CCRSoftware that we will discuss here.
CCRQInvoice: Cannot find the record…
QuickBooks provides some fields in orders that are called the “Other” fields (either in the order header or as columns). We generally recommend that you do not use these fields in your QuickBooks templates due to limitations in QuickBooks. In addition, if you are using QuickBooks 2010 or Enterprise 10 there is a bug in [...]
If Something Goes Wrong – Providing us with Diagnostic Info
If your copy of CCRQInvoice or CCRQBOM runs into a problem it can’t resolve, you will get an error window that displays a message describing the error. To be able to quickly diagnose the problem our technical support staff needs detailed information on the problem – here are some tips on how to best get [...]
Importing and Exporting Templates
All CCRSoftware programs include a template editor(or “form” editor) that allows you to modify our built-in templates for reports and forms. Edited templates are saved as separate files, but to be used they must be located in the the appropriate folder on your computer. We provide an import and export function that helps you get [...]
Backing Up CCRSoftware Files
CCRSoftware products work with the data in your QuickBooks company file rather than creating a separate set of company data to manage. However, there are some files that contain important information that are not a part of your QuickBooks file – and you should make a backup copy of this data periodically.
CCRQInvoice Sorting Problems: Updates
Some installations that are using the CCRQInvoice sorting feature have reported some problems. If you have run into any of these problems we may have an update for you that will resolve the issue.
Custom Fields in Enterprise 10
As I mentioned in an earlier note, when Intuit added features to the custom fields feature of Enterprise 10 then unfortunately did not make these features accessible to third-party programmers. Although Intuit extended the number of custom fields in the program, they are hidden from view in the programming interface. This creates several problems, and [...]
How To Get The Total Cost of Shortages On A Requirements List
CCRQBOM can generate a requirements list, a report that shows what items you need to purchase if you want to build a required quantity of an assembly. I’ll show you how to add some calculated fields to the report to provide total shortage cost calculation.
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