This is the second of our sponsor vignettes for this year's Scaling New Heights conference. This feature looks at inventory, eCommerce, and stand-alone software alternatives.
Eliminate the time-consuming, complex process of posting financial data from multiple sales channels to accounting systems with Bookkeep. Bookkeep integrates multiple sales channels into QuickBooks from a growing list of sales platforms, including Shopify, Square, Amazon, Grubhub, Squarespace, and Stripe, with more on the way.
They summarize all your financial activities into journal entries, whether it's sales, payouts, deposits, or fees, then post those journal entries directly into QuickBooks. They also check your QuickBooks Bank Feeds to make sure that their daily deposits match up. Since they are accountants, business owners, and data nerds themselves, they know the importance of proper financials. That is why Bookkeep's accounting integration offers nothing less than "GAAP postings that make accountants smile."
Bookkeep makes it easy to set up all your sales channels in 15 minutes or less so you can start syncing daily summarized journal entries to QuickBooks the very same day. And, if you are an accounting or bookkeeping firm with clients you manage, you can handle all of their sales channels using Bookkeep without needing to track logins and passwords. Bookkeep also offers a 'Partner Program' to help you grow your practice using the resources they offer.
Be sure to stop by the Bookkeep booth on the exhibit floor at Scaling New Heights to learn more about their eCommerce integrations and Partner opportunities. Even though Bookkeep syncs data to QBO, you won't find them listed at the Intuit QuickBooks App Store.
AccountingSuite™ is cloud-based software providing accounting, Inventory, order management, bank-reconciliation, project & time tracking, and even eCommerce functionality. This mid-market product is powerful and flexible enough to support a wide range of businesses during startup and as they grow. The Cloud-based design also provides anywhere access to financial data for business owners, employees, or their accountants needing to approve business activities or make critical decisions.
It's easy to get started with AccountingSuite. They can convert your QBO company data with their migration tool without issues. And AccountingSuite adjusts to almost any company workflow, and it can be customized to meet your needs rather than you having to change how you work to work with it.
AccountingSuite lets you manage Inventory with various advanced features, including Multiple-location tracking and location-transfers, Assemblies/Bills-of-materials, Price-matrices, Lots and Serial Numbers, Landed Cost, and Complex Units of Measure. It will also handle what I consider light-manufacturing. Suppose you consider adding a 3rd-party Inventory solution to either Desktop or Cloud-based Accounting software; it might be time to consider an all-in-one alternative like this.
Using the AccountingSuite Cloud Commerce feature to connect your Sales Channel your online store or eCommerce aggregator/shipping manager like ShipStation, all your orders will flow from your website and be recorded as sales orders, shipments, invoices or cash receipts.
Unlike many cloud-based subscription systems, AccountingSuite doesn't require a plug-in this or a plug-in that. All their features in the Cloud Banking, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Accounting modules are included; there are no costs beyond your base subscription fee. AccountingSuite offers a variety of pricing plans designed to meet the needs of different businesses, and since we don't discuss pricing options, I will say some of them are very reasonable for the level of sophistication you get.
So, if you have been wanting to explore alternatives to the software you are presently using, take the opportunity to visit the AccountingSuite booth on the exhibit hall floor at Scaling New Heights. By the way, they offer a Partner Program for Accountants & Bookkeepers that allows them to stay involved with their clients who use the product. For more information about this comprehensive software, reach out to the AccountingSuite™ website.
Fishbowl purports to be the Number One add-on inventory management software for QuickBooks that also maximizes manufacturing and warehousing processes. Fishbowl offers a wide variety of advanced inventory management features you won't find in any version of QuickBooks, Desktop, or Online. All of the inventory features of Fishbowl Desktop can be found in their Manufacturing or their Warehouse versions. Each of those two versions has been fine-tuned to the specific needs of those business types and affords extra features within each package.
Fishbowl Manufacturing provides complete manufacturing Inventory, advanced work orders, bills of materials, barcode scanning, production stages, multi-location, labor & job tracking, MRP, eCommerce integration, shipping, EDI integration, landed costs, CRM integrations, business intelligence, and seamless integration with QuickBooks.
Fishbowl Warehouse offers complete warehouse inventory management, including stock alerts, reordering, shipping, receiving, barcode support, multi-location support, serial/lot-tracking, eCommerce, CRM, and EDI integrations, true-cost calculations, employee time tracking, business intelligence, and seamless QuickBooks integration.
Fishbowl Online offers robust, scalable cloud-based Inventory Management for QuickBooks with complete inventory management, seamless QuickBooks integration, and no special hardware requirements since you can access the software from any device using the Internet and you can scan barcodes using your smartphone.
No matter what your need, Fishbowl has a solution for you. That's why they have supported thousands of QuickBooks customers with their inventory needs for more than 20 years. So, make sure to stop by the Fishbowl booth to find out how you can Partner with Fishbowl. For more details, check out the Fishbowl landing page at the Intuit Apps for QuickBooks Desktop Store.
ConnectBooks lets you sync all data to QuickBooks and get clear about your profits. It's a simple solution for 3rd-party e-commerce sellers on Amazon, eBay, and Walmart. ConnectBooks provides instant clarity of your profitability because it covers all your bookkeeping, inventory, and e-commerce reporting requirements. It also ensures your merchandise gets accurately removed from stock upon actual sales of the product and will optimize your future sales because it will help you order the proper inventory at just the right time.
Using ConnectBooks is simple. Step 1: Connect to your Amazon Account - ConnectBooks extracts all your Amazon Data, including PPC, spend, and storage fees per item from Seller Central. Step 2: See all your important data in one unified place - At-a-glance history and trajectory by date range or product(s); displays revenue, profit, order, and product totals. Step 3: Integrate with QuickBooks - Import your data into QuickBooks (Desktop or Online) with the industry's most powerful integrations. By the way, you can have either summary or detailed data posted into QuickBooks; you make the choice.
ConnectBooks will save 9 hours of employee time per month (on average) by automating, simplifying, and automatically reconciling goods sold on your Amazon dashboard with QuickBooks.
If ConnectBooks sounds like an E-commerce App you absolutely must have, or at least must see in person, then stop by their booth on the exhibit hall floor of Scaling New Heights. Of course you can also head over to the ConnectBooks website for more information as well.
Zoho offers more than 45 applications built for you and your clients' businesses, no matter the size. With the most robust accounting suite in the industry, it's no wonder 50-million users trust Zoho. While the most popular software bundle of Zoho applications is Zoho One, you can visit the main Zoho website to see the full suite of applications.
Zoho One gives you one integrated system to transform your business' disparate activities into a more connected and agile organization. Increase productivity across your business, deliver better customer experience, and more. The version designed specifically for 'Startups' gives a startup access to the software tools they need to power their entrepreneurial journey, to get off the ground and scale up successfully. The 'Small Business' version gives you 40+ integrated applications to manage, connect, and automate business processes across your entire organization.
Build your presence with Zoho's marketing apps to reach new customers and attract an audience. Zoho One offers all the apps you need to generate leads, close deals, and win repeat business. With Zoho's double-entry professional accounting, you will maintain an accurate record of your finances and monitor the health of your business. Get rid of tedious work and focus on building your business using the built-in automated workflows Zoho incorporates to manage everyday tasks and streamline your data.
And Zoho offers a variety of ready-to-use browser extensions for your favorite Zoho apps that save time, simplify work and make things downright faster. Accelerate your productivity with Zoho browser extensions.
The Zoho Books consulting partner program offers you a platform to grow your business through networking. You can leverage your expertise on Zoho Books to provide greater value to your clients and promote your practice. It's as simple as 1, 2, 3. Just register for the program, get familiar with Zoho Finance apps and become a Consulting Partner to gain full benefits. Start your consulting partnership by stopping by the Zoho booth on the exhibit hall floor. Otherwise, point your browser to the main Zoho website for more details about the entire suite of Zoho products.
Acctivate is Inventory Management Software they profess operates like an operational hub for growing businesses. They offer a combination of inventory, order, and business management features focused on growth, insight, and scalability centered around QuickBooks integration.
Acctivate gives small to medium-sized businesses complete control over operations at a company-wide, real-time visibility level with business data centralized in a single system. In addition, Acctivate adapts to increased demands and growth with a flexible and scalable design, supporting virtually an unlimited number of users, locally and globally, enabling adding new features without significant structural changes, and handling substantial growth in business volume.
While Acctivate has a core of features focused on meeting the needs of businesses that have outgrown QuickBooks inventory and order capabilities, they offer a modular design to allow their customers the opportunity to pick and choose the feature set that will work best for themselves. In simple, why pay for features in a pre-configured bundled product that you don't need when you can select only those you need.
Acctivate prides itself on providing business insight tools that bring on-demand visibility of each business to the forefront enabling informed decisions to be made. One such tool is event timelines that deliver a simplified view of historical and active data and critical insights.
Speaking of critical insights, if you've been charged with finding an inventory solution for one of your clients while at the conference, be sure to visit the Acctivate booth in the exhibit hall. Or head over to the Acctivate Inventory landing page at the Intuit Apps for QuickBooks Desktop Store for more details.
MISys Manufacturing is frequently the 'go-to software' recommended by QuickBooks ProAdvisors for manufacturing requirements QuickBooks can't handle. The fully modular design. Simple installation, quick implementation, and ease of use make MISys a perfect choice when you have complex manufacturing and production environments.
MISys provides functions ranging from multi-location inventory, expandable bills of material (BOM) with revision control, Bills of Manufacturing (incorporating BOMs, resources, and routing/staging), production work orders and scheduling, job tracking, multiple units of measurement, multiple inventory valuation methods (FIFO, LIFO, standard or average cost methods), shop-floor control, activity monitors, mobile device support (for inventory or shop-floor tracking), physical inventory cycle tracking, serial & lot tracking, supplier pricing, material requirements planning, integration with Solidworks design tools, and integration with both QuickBooks Desktop and QBO.
MISys also offers mobile functionality they call 'EXT', which provides almost all the same functionality as their desktop interface. This includes Manufacturing Orders, Work Orders, Sales Transfers, Purchase Orders, Serial & Lot tracking, and Shop Operations. In addition, you also receive the same Alerts on your EXT mobile that you get on your desktop login.
Suppose you have manufacturing or production clients whose operations have become too complex, or they have outgrown the functional limitations of QuickBooks Desktop or QBO. In that case, you should head over to the MISys Manufacturing booth in the exhibit hall to find out more. You can also get more details from the MISys Manufacturing landing page at the Intuit Apps for QuickBooks Desktop Store.
SOS Inventory by Saddle Oak Software is a complete inventory, order management, and manufacturing solution featuring tight integration with QuickBooks Online. From the ground up, SOS was built for QuickBooks Online and was the first inventory software to connect to QBO.
Since QBO doesn't include Sales Orders, you use SOS for all your orders and fulfill those orders and invoice from SOS. The SOS invoices fully sync with QBO. But if you thought that is where SOS stopped, I'm here to tell you there is so much more. SOS covers the entire lifecycle of your inventory-based or light-manufacturing business.
SOS turns QuickBooks Online into a lean-mean inventory machine. If you're researching ways to expand the capabilities of your QuickBooks Online clients to meet their inventory and manufacturing requirements, SOS Inventory is a great App to help you do that. Be sure to stop by the SOS booth on the exhibit hall floor or click on the SOS Inventory landing page at the Intuit QuickBooks App Center.
Flowsmith is designed for small to mid-sized QuickBooks-based businesses that need fully responsive online storefronts. They create hassle-free ordering systems that empower sales teams and customers through a streamlined QuickBooks-based portal. These portals synchronize with any version of QuickBooks Desktop.
With Flowsmith, your customers and reps can log in and manage their orders quickly. They can also communicate with you when placing orders and even see order status. But it does much more than that. It also lets them see inventory in real-time, check order history, invoices, visualize products. The result is that you will save hours of data entry, missed calls, and email messaging.
Flowsmith also offers content management and marketing tools to increase your sales and keep your customers up to date.
For accountants, bookkeepers, and ProAdvisors, Flowsmith offers a way to not only increase your revenues with referral and ongoing fees but be crucial to your clients' growth. In addition, they offer a 30-day free trial and exclusive benefits when new clients sign-up through partner members. So, please make sure to stop by the Flowsmith booth in the exhibit hall at Scaling New Heights to find out more, or check them out at the Flowsmith landing page in the Intuit Apps for QuickBooks Desktop store.
LilyPad for Fishbowl, a premier Fishbowl Go Alternative, offers Fishbowl users several enhancement options which are simple, effective, budget-friendly, and fully supported. LilyPad gives you the resources you need to get all the Fishbowl features your business deserves without the complications.
LilyPad Vortex is an online sales rep/B2B platform that integrates directly with Fishbowl, bringing your products to your sales team and B2B customers. LilyPad MultiCart manages unlimited sales portal integrations, transferring orders seamlessly into your Fishbowl. LilyPad 3PL allows you to charge your customers for the inventory you handle for them and provides those customers with portal access. LilyPad Cart Integrations connect an online store to Fishbowl without errors and streamlines order delivery. LilyPad Custom Reports provide a reporting design feature for the data you want or need. Finally, LilyPad Mobile-warehouse runs and controls your warehouse inventory seamlessly with Fishbowl.
With LilyPad for Fishbowl, you can be sure you're getting the best possible bang for your buck. So stop by the LilyPad booth in the exhibit hall to find out more about optimizing Fishbowl the LilyPad way. Otherwise, point your browser over to the LilyPad website for more details.
Scaling New Heights is being held October 24 - 27, 2021, in Fort Worth, TX. Conference registration remains open. REGISTER HERE. You will find all of the conference Sponsors here.
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All information and graphics were taken from the various sponsors' websites and the Intuit QuickBooks App Store. Information published here was current when Insightful Accountant researched it from those websites and not necessarily at the time of publication. Insightful Accountant does not accept responsibility for variations or changes in information that may have occurred since we researched each sponsors' website or the Intuit QB App Store and we published our content.