Countdown to QuickBooks Connect 2019 - Part 3

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Here at Insightful Accountant we began our 'countdown' to QuickBooks Connect more than a month ago with features about some of our favorite speakers who will be teaching breakout sessions. We will be continuing speaker features, but we are also looking at the sponsors who make it possible to 'connect' with so many of the featured products that work with QuickBooks. Here are seven (7) more of the Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsors in this year's 'Connect.'

Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and other tax types. The company delivers comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use.  With more than 700 ways to connect, they have a solution that's right for you situation and software.

Avalara’s Compliance Cloud™ platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world. Whether you are looking for sales and use tax, excise tax, value-added tax, goods and services tax, lodging tax, communications tax, or customs duty and import tax, Avalara has you covered.

Each year, the company processes billions of indirect tax transactions for customers and users, files more than a million tax returns and other compliance documents. They are the tax experts.

If you are a small business attending QuickBooks Connect make certain to check out the Avalara Small Business Suite of Products designed just for businesses like you, or be sure to stop by the Avalara booth on the exhibit hall floor at QuickBooks Connect to see how one of their tax solutions can benefit you and your clients.

Core by BQE

Core by BQE is the next generation of business software designed for the heart, soul and mind of your business. With its cutting-edge design and “smart automation,” Core can help transform ordinary accounting and project management into extraordinary business intelligence. This will give you all the information you need and want in the way that makes the most sense for your business.

Core is not only the evolution of a series of BQE products, but an entirely new way of looking at business software. It features the best designs and features of all the BQE products, with almost unlimited preference-based customization within a totally new platform, configured for the way that businesses work today, including remote and mobile. 

Core takes all the essential business functions and seamlessly integrates them into a secure, cloud-based solution conveniently accessible from any operating system or mobile device. Core was purpose-built to perform complex tasks blazingly fast, overcoming one of the most problematic aspects to cloud computing: speed.

If you are ready to upgrade your business software to something better then stop in at Core by BQE booth while you are visiting the exhibit hall at QuickBooks Connect and let them demonstrate the power of this dynamic and beautiful software.

Bento for Business

Bento for Business Visa Debit Card is the best way to manage employee expenses! Managing employee expenses is ridiculously easy with Bento’s powerful card controls, real-time transaction reports and QuickBooks integration. You will have complete control over your expenses by allocating funds to each card knowing that card users can only make purchases within their authorized funds.

Bento offers prepaid Visa Debit Cards that are easy to reload and control, you can order and distribute then to specific staff members (or contractors) or as utility cards without a person’s name on the card so you can manage projects and business expenses using allocated funds. The cards are always in sync with the Bento mobile app so that you can always check spending against spending limits, view transactions and replenish funds if needed. You can even capture receipts and notes with the mobile app.

Be sure to stop by the Bento for Business booth at QuickBooks Connect to not only check out their controlled spending solutions but also their Expense Expert program designed for accountants, bookkeepers and business advisors like you.

ClockShark

For construction and field service companies who want to get rid of paper time sheets, ClockShark is the GPS time tracking app that's both powerful and easy to use.

ClockShark’s cloud-based mobile time clock system uses the latest mobile app and GPS technology (GPSTrak™) to automate time tracking in a simple, easy to use way that both your field and office staff will love. ClockShark even gives you custom geofence perimeters that provide a "bird's eye view" of who's working now, and provides a replay animation of who was working when.

With ClockShark your crews can clock in and out, pick jobs and tasks and take breaks all at your fingertips (or theirs). And ClockShark uses simple Apps built for unique challenges of construction,field services and franchises so that workers won't be spending more time using the App then performing their tasks.

ClockShark allows you to schedule work by either job or employee, you can simply drag and drop to instantly update across the entire company schedule, and scheduling is provided 'at no extra cost.'

If you are planning on checking out the various sponsors in the exhibit hall while you are at QuickBooks Connect then you will want to make absolutely certain to stop by the ClockShark booth while you are there, it will definitely be 'worth your time.'

FundBox

FundBox believes that only business owners can help their business flourish, and that they need to focus on their business, worry less about collections, and not stress over long-term financing commitments that don’t make sense.

FundBox knows that what business owners need is a little help from time to time to ensure that they get money when needed, and that they need to know that it will be available when they need it. What FundBox offers isn’t ‘a loan,’ it’s a different way of managing your cash flow.

FundBox doesn't purchase your receivables or use them as collateral; they simply ‘advance you the value of one or more of your outstanding invoices’ which you pay back with a clearing-fee over a 12 or 24 week period. In other words, instead of you struggling for 90-days to get what your clients owe you, the FundBox advance allows you to continue doing what you do best, the work.

As a ProAdvisor, Bookkeeper, Accountant or Business Consultant you definitely should consider the FundBox Partner Program which includes real-time referral tracking, a dedicated account manager and generous referral fees. So make certain to stop by the FundBox booth in the QuickBooks Connect exhibit hall to find out how you and FundBox can team up for alternative funding options for you and your clients.

Broadly

Broadly’s customer engagement platform helps businesses manage leads, facilitate communication with today’s customers, and generate online reviews.

Their mobile first approach enables owners and managers to run their businesses from anywhere in real-time. Thousands of local businesses depend on Broadly every day.

For more details be certain to stop by the Broadly booth in the exhibit hall at QuickBooks Connect, and also ask them about their special Partner Program for QuickBooks ProAdvisors.

QBO Hero

QBO Hero advertises themselves as the"World's #1 Converter to QuickBooks Online." They provide accurate data conversion services from numerous accounting software platforms such as converting from QuickBooks Desktop, Quicken, Xero, Sage, Creative Solutions, and others to QuickBooks Online.

QBO Hero has successfully completed hundreds of conversions over the past 4 years for many firms. In addition, QBO Hero offers QuickBooks Online and other software application solutions.

Have you ever had one of those QuickBooks Desktop files that just won't convert to QBO, or one of them that converts but the numbers just never turn our right? If you're tired of trying to convert your clients to QBO from desktop files that just seem like they're never going to get there, or one of those 'other old software programs they were using’, then you need to visit with a QBO Hero. Now is the perfect time while you are in the exhibit hall at QuickBooks Connect so you can let them show you how you can become your client's 'conversion hero'.

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.