Countdown to QuickBooks Connect 2019 - Part 12

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T-minus 1, 2 etc...as we countdown to QuickBooks Connect with us, the 'big show' less than a week away and this has been a very long imaginary tour of the exhibit hall profiling sponsors and their featured Apps that support or enhance QuickBooks, or a few who provide related services beneficial to your practice or clients. But any way we still have some more walking to do as we visit the remaining sponsors.

Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage their HR & IT — from payroll and benefits, to employee computers and apps — all in one, modern system.

In just 90-seconds, a company can set up (or disable) an employee’s payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps, like Gmail, Microsoft Office, and Slack.

Be sure to stop by the Rippling Booth at QuickBooks Connect to find out why they are the only HR platform that truly unifies every employee system, and automates all of your administrative work. 

Vic.ai

Vic.ai is the artificial intelligence (AI) platform for accounting firms and mid-sized finance departments.

Vic.ai layers on top of your systems, learning how your team works and begins helping them out. No need to rip and replace your existing accounting, expense, tax or reporting software. Want your team to be more efficient? Reduce errors? Improve your firm’s margins? Vic.ai is a platform that works for you.

Vic.ai’s machine learning technology has been trained on over 150 million live accounting documents and transactions. Already surpassing human-level accuracy for many tasks, Vic.ai helps accountants, CFOs, controllers, and accounts payable (AP) teams become more efficient and reduce errors on routine accounting tasks.

Be certain to stop by the Vic.ai Booth at QuickBooks Connect to see how using automation reduces human errors, makes data available faster, and saves substantial time all while improving client services. Once you do, you may realize that you are ready to be a 'first-mover' in utilizing AI for better accuracy and faster turn-around.

GoProposal

Confidently Agree On The Fees You’re REALLY Worth. GoProposal enables accounting & bookkeeping businesses to price consistently, agree on fees more confidently & to grow more profitably.

  • GoProposal ensures that you never do more than you get paid for, helps you communicate the full value you can provide to your clients & enables you to command the fees you deserve.
  • Get paid for ALL the hard work you do, with a consistent & transparent pricing platform that everyone can easily use for every client.
  • Get paid for ALL the hard work you do, with a consistent & transparent pricing platform that everyone can easily use for every client.
  • Seal all your profit leaks and easily manage scope creep with a centralised pricing & proposal system, designed to unlock the full value of your client base.

Make sure to stop by the GoProposal Booth and find out how they can transform your practice and give your firm the confidence to charge what they're really worth.

MoreReporting

MoreReporting is an automated reporting and data analysis solution for QuickBooks Online and Desktop. Including automated reporting, industry benchmark, financial ratios, consolidation, classes and locations, cash-flow forecasting, non-profit, month-end-close and so much more. We bridge the gap between what clients need and what they are getting – by transforming traditional compliance work into advisory. 

  • Automated reports that make sense - discover how easily you can provide automated, meaningful and actionable reports for your clients to help them make better financial decisions.
  • A better way of consolidating data - don't waste time using some complicated process in another reporting system or your accounting software, MoreReporting lets you set-up and manage subsidiaries, group currencies, loans, and more in one account, and then automate those reports to run forever.
  • Benchmarking and Analytics - it's important for 'trusted advisors' to provide business owners with more than 'just the numbers' and some financial statistics. Clients want to know what's really going on with their business and where they stand, MoreReporting provides meaningful industry specifics as comparisons to a business so owners and executives can know where things are 'good' and what they need to do to improve their situation when things 'are not.'

Stop by the MoreReporting Booth while you are QuickBooks Connect to explore how they can give you the solution you have been needing to turn your clients' data into truly 'trusted advisor' worthy reporting.

Secure Cloud Services

Secure Cloud Services has launched the first cloud application hosting service in its market with built-in cybersecurity monitoring. Move your QuickBooks and other applications to our Secure Cloud Hosting service to give you peace of mind knowing your data is secure along with more up-time and better productivity. 

Application hosting with Secure Cloud Services (SCS) allows you to focus on what really matters.  80% of IT resources are spent on maintenance, not adding new value. Avoid spending your team’s valuable time on patching software, performing upgrades, and backing up data. SCS manages your mission-critical business applications so your team can spend more time on helping your business succeed.

SCS QuickBooks hosting offers the same experience using QuickBooks in the cloud as your physical desktop. We offer the unique choice of a Windows 10 or Server 2019 look-and-feel on your Cloud Desktop.  You can access QuickBooks from your home, office, or even on-the-go. It is accessible from Mac, PC, Chromebooks, Linux, Android, and iOS devices. Keep your accounts up to date from everywhere!  You can bring your own existing QuickBooks licenses or purchase licenses thru Baytek (our Intuit Partner), either way you will get free license setup in the cloud. And maybe you have heard there are problems with peripherals when you are using QuickBooks in the cloud, well if you need to print to a local printer from your SCS cloud-based QuickBooks software you can easily connect your printer and other external devices such as scanners, storage, and multiple monitors without any issue.

Be sure to stop by the SCS Booth while you are at QuickBooks Connect to determine if Secure Cloud Hosting Services is the right solution and provider for you.

TaxJar

TaxJar is a leading technology for eCommerce businesses and developers to manage sales tax with QuickBooks. As a fully-distributed company, TaxJar was founded to make eCommerce easier for everyone by helping merchants and bookkeepers spend less time on sales tax to focus on growing the businesses they love.

  • TaxJar provides accurate Sales Tax rates and Calculations, with shipping and product-level taxability and even international support.
  • TaxJar easily connects to the places where you sell like your marketplace or shopping cart.
  • With TaxJar you will never miss a due date again, you will file on-time, every-time.
  • TaxJar instantly prepares your state return-ready reports, finish your returns in minutes then choose to automate your filing with their 'AutoFile'.
  • TaxJar makes sales tax filing easier for more than 15,000 online sellers and merchants across the world.

TaxJar Booth at QuickBooks Connect and let them show you how easily they can automate your sales tax calculations, reporting, and filings in minutes.

TOA Global

TOA Global is the most professional accounting outsourcing partner to build and manage an offshore team – the experts to select and develop your best people easily. TOA Global lives and breathes the accounting industry globally. Their eco-system provides people experience, professional development, technology, security, peer-to-peer community, and leading-edge facilities. 

  • TOA Global specializes in providing qualified CPAs, accountants, bookkeepers and support staff to the accounting industry.
  • With office locations across the globe, TOA Global has stellar experience in assembling your global team.
  • TOA Global provides qualified accountants, CPAs, bookkeepers and support staff in the Philippines who are a dedicated part of your team.
  • TOA Global's local Account Managers have years of experience helping our clients build highly successful remote teams.
  • TOA Global takes their culture seriously in order to make The Outsourced Accountant an employer of choice and attract top talent.
  • TOA Global's 100+ support staff takes care of the details, so you can focus on growing your team and serving your clients.
  • TOA Global's facilities have been designed with employees’ comfort and convenience in mind, leading to a more productive team.
  • TOA Academy is their professional development and learning platform to help advance the skills of every team member.

You can begin a conversation to determine if a global team strategy for outsourcing professional accounting services simply by stopping by the TOA Gobal Booth during QuickBooks connect.

QuickBooks Connect

QuickBooks Connect is being held at the San Jose (Ca) McEnery Convention Center  on November 6, 7 and 8.

November 6 is this year's 'Accountant's Day' which is designed for accounting professionals

  • Big news - there will be 'new' tracks available for the Accountant Day breakout sessions including non-profit, construction, e-commerce, retail, professional services, legal, advisory, pricing, apps mastery, and business growth.
  • There will also be 101 level QuickBooks classes along with intermediate and advanced level classes followed by a Power Panel on each.
  • Attendees can 'track true' in a single track, or can 'mix-n-match' track sessions as they desire.
  • This is your opportunity to 'pick the brains' of countless experts about QuickBooks, their favorite Apps, problems you have seen with an App integration, or simply ask "how they deal with a client situation?" Folks, this is a big part of what 'the Connect' in QuickBooks Connect is all about.

November 7 & 8 provides an opportunity business owners, experts, vendors and other mentors to interact with you, the accounting professionals and ProAdvisors who know QuickBooks.

All three days offer an Exhibit Hall with sponsor-partners offering the latest innovations, tools and trends designed to work with QuickBooks and impact your business and streamline workflows. You will have the opportunity to meet with product experts at their product booths where you can explore hands-on activities including product demos, ask questions and receive personalized help and advice via one-on-one sessions, and more. Keep on the look-out for more of my 'Countdown to QuickBooks Connect' features to help get you ready fro the exhibit hall.

So, get all the details about sessions, keynote speakers, hotels, travel deals, and registration at the official Intuit QuickBooks Connect website.