QuickBooks Desktop 2019 was recently released and has many new updates and improved feature usage compared to prior year's desktop versions. There are updates across all versions of QuickBooks Desktop - Pro, Premier, Accountant, and Enterprise.
New features include:
Customer invoice history tracker
- With real-time customer invoice history information available, users can take timely actions to improve communications with clients about their open receivables
Transfer credits between jobs of the same customer
- Efficiently apply customer credits across all jobs of the same selected customer
Employee pay adjustment history
- Track changes to employee pay rates (only hourly, salary, bonus and commission items)
Improved features include:
User prompt to create a bill payment when using write checks to a vendor with open bills
- New and improved prompt helps users avoid using the Write Check transaction type when the proper transaction type should be a vendor Bill Payment.
Inactive inventory items included in inventory report totals
- Users can choose to include inactive inventory items in the Inventory Valuation Summary or Detail report
Sick and vacation pay tracking
- New company preference for setting the Maximum type for Sick and Vacation time. Settings include either Maximum hours at a time, or Maximum hours for the year.
Sensitive payroll permissions (Enterprise 19.0 only)
- Provides the Admin for the file with a more definitive view of any permission levels that when assigned to a user, would include access to sensitive payroll transactions.
Condense data file optimization
- Reliably reduce a QuickBooks company file size without deleting data
Other items improved:
- Easy Upgrade
- IIF List and Data Imports
- Intuit Data Protect
- Receive Inventory Process - Purchase Order Worksheet
- Pick, Pack, and Ship Process - Sales Order Worksheet
- QuickBooks for Mac 2019
For more information, please contact Ashley Trabaris, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor at Porte Brown at (847) 956-1040.
