QuickBooks help

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I need a crash course in using QuickBooks for my retail business. Can anyone recommend a simple course to get me started?

Do you have an Accountant?
Many have a reseller licence for Accounting software and can give it to you free or charge a smaller amount than going direct. They often provide free training too

No I haven’t at the moment, we have been managing fine manually until now but suddenly have to go digital for VAT. I think I need to find one quickly! Thanks for the advice.

I learned it myself via QuickBooks help pages, You Tube and contacting QuickBooks themselves who were very helpful. I had been comfortably using the normal accounting on there but VAT and Payroll I found hard at first. I soon built up confidence though.

Thank you @DelilahBucket I am going to sit and try and make a start with learning today! Helpful to know that you have managed it with their tutorials.

The online webinars are generally excellent.

quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/small-business-webinars/#ondemand

I'd suggest starting with the live "Quickbooks online training for your business" which is 3 hours long, but gives a really good overview.

Then follow it up with the "on demand" recorded webinar "Quickbooks online - retail" and after that, do the on-demand digital VAT filing webinar.

Those 3 webinars should give you plenty of confidence and a good all round look at the basics that you'll need. Personally, I wouldn't start doing any data entry etc until you've watched those webinars as it's very easy to waste a lot of time, make mistakes, need to correct mistakes, etc if you go in all guns blazing on a trial & error basis. Far better to do it slowly and methodically, and having done the webinars, you'll know which bits to use and which bits you can ignore (probably over 90% of the functionality isn't needed by an average/typical small business).

That’s brilliant! Thank you @user1497207191