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.
In my Practical QuickBooks blog I’ve been writing a series of articles about QuickBooks 2011, starting with my QuickBooks 2011 overview. The vast majority of the new and changed features have no effect on CCRSoftware products.
With the exception of what we have listed below, all current CCRSoftware products should continue to work with QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2011 and Enterprise v11.0 without requiring any updates.
The exceptions are:
- QuickBooks Enterprise V11 adds an optional Advanced Inventory feature. CCRSoftware products will not be able to see the “site” information provided by this new feature.
- If you are using the Advanced Inventory feature you can PRINT reports in CCRQBOM, but you cannot issue a Build transaction if this new feature is enabled. UPDATED 10/26/2010: Intuit has acknowledged that this is a bug in QuickBooks itself, and they are working on a fix – no date for this fix has been announced.
- QuickBooks Enterprise V11 (all editions) and QuickBooks Premier Accountants Edition provide a “multiple instance” feature that allows you to have two QuickBooks company files open at the same time. Unfortunately, as stated in the QuickBooks help file, you cannot run any SDK based application while you have two files open. This is a restriction on the QuickBooks side of things. So if you have two company files open simultaneously, you cannot run any CCRSoftware product (there are a LOT of restrictions in QuickBooks regarding this feature).
At this time these are the only exceptions we are aware of, but we are continuing to explore the issues. If you have any questions about this please let us know.
On a side note, our general recommendation is that you don’t upgrade to the 2011 version of QuickBooks for a couple of months – so that Intuit has a chance to fix the new-release bugs that almost always show up.
Category: CCRQBOM, CCRQInvoice
About the Author (Author Profile)
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.
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I have already quickbook 2006 and can i use it with this..
Yes, as our web site states, we are compatible with QB 2006 and later (US editions – other restrictions if you have a non-US edition)
I am in need of a software product that integrates with QB (we aer curerntly using Pro 2008). We use another stand-alone system to generate our invoices weekly. Each customer’s account in that system has a listing of the products and pricing used by that individual customer. One of the fields in that system identifies what route that customer is on so that when we ID the criteria to print, only those accounts that match the route we are printing are printed. We do that once a week for all the invoices that will be used that week. When the driver makes te delivery, they hand write the number of units of what ever products were delivered and total the invoice. we do not do credit cards. When the completed invoice is returned, I have to have a person create an invoice in QB and enter the specific information from the completed invoice. I would like to get rid of the other application and find one that integrates with QB so that I can have a more seamless operation. Can your product do that?
John, you should contact our sales department directly (sales@ccrsoftware.com) to talk about this. Hard to go into detail in blog comments. There are several ways to approach this, although I’m not sure if any will fill your needs or not.
Are you ever going to release an update to this product. It’s been years. And last year you gave me a beta that fixed some problems I was having, but you never released it officially. Is this product dead as far as future development?
Jim, we are really behind schedule in releasing new features and updates, I agree. We are still doing some fine tuning of things. It takes awhile to get a release into “public” release. But, yes, we are way behind. And, yes, we are still actively developing our products.
Regarding QB 2011 compatibility, there are two issues.
First is the issue of the extra “custom fields” that Enterprise supports. We are close to supporting that in our products, although there are some issues there still. We had to wait for Intuit to release a bug fix that allowed us to get to those fields. That only happened recently. For Enterprise 11 we will be able to support those added fields – that should be coming out in August (tentatively). I’m not sure at this point if we’ll support those extra fields in Enterprise 10 or not, Intuit’s fix might not extend to that.
The other issue is Advanced Inventory. I won’t predict a release date for support of that yet – mainly because Intuit still has bugs in the programming interface that relates to Advanced Inventory, and those bugs are causing a lot of problems.