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We love teaching! The Gentle Frog blog provides practical tips, expert insights, and step-by-step guides to simplify QuickBooks and bookkeeping tasks. Whether you’re a business owner or an accounting professional, find valuable resources to make managing your finances easier and more efficient.

Getting Started with QuickBooks Online: Banking
This the first part in a series showing you how to get started doing your own bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online. In part one I show you how to review banking transactions.

How to use Invoices, Sales Receipts and Deposits in QuickBooks Online
In this tutorial I explain three ways enter income in QuickBooks Online. With a sales receipt, invoice and by manually recording a deposit.

Bill vs Expense in QuickBooks: What’s the Difference?
Have you ever wondered what the difference between a bill and an expense is in QuickBooks? In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how they’re different and when you should use one over the other.

How to Use Qbox with Quickbooks
Now that more people are working from home we need a safe way to share QuickBooks Desktop files with our clients. I do this using a software called Qbox. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how I use Qbox to share and work on files with my clients.

How to Customize the Icon Bar in QuickBooks Desktop
Learn how to make working in QuickBooks Desktop faster and easier by customizing the icon bar.

Correcting Misclassified Transfers in QuickBooks Online
QuickBooks usually does a great job suggesting the type of action and account for imported transactions. But, sometimes they get it wrong. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to change the Action Type of transactions in QuickBooks Online.

How To Record Deposits and Fees in QuickBooks Online
In this training, you’ll learn how to record a deposit for a sale made through a processor like Stripe or Paypal. These types of transactions include fees that should be entered into QuickBooks.

How to Track Hours Worked Using QuickBooks Timesheets
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use QuickBooks timesheets to keep track of your time worked and make sure you bill your time back to customers and clients correctly.

How To Reset Passwords in QuickBooks Desktop
In this training you’ll learn how to reset the password in QuickBooks Desktop as both an administrator and a user so you’ll never be locked out of your account.

How To Properly Enter PayPal transactions into QuickBooks Online
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to avoid some common mistakes people make when entering their Paypal transactions into QuickBooks Online.

Rachel Barnett Receives Insightful Accountant’s 2020 Top 100 ProAdvisor Award
Our Rachel Barnett is the proud recipient of an Insightful Accountant’s Top 100 2020 ProAdvisor Domestic Award.

How To Change Your Company Email Address in QuickBooks Online
In this post I show you how to update your email address in QuickBooks Online.