QuickBooks Company Setup

How to setup a new company in QuickBooks - Interview Window 8

In the next 18 windows, for 2008 through 2011, you will be asked questions that will allow QuickBooks to customize a homepage by turning on the features that meets your business needs best. As you can see below, the features that will appear on your QuickBooks home page, will be based on the answers you have given to the questions QuickBooks ask in this section of the interview.

You will be able to enable additional features later on, but if you answer the questions as accurately as you can, you will save yourself a lot of time customizing individually what QuickBooks would have done collectively.

QuickBooks 2012 to Present

Here, I have added a customer first, then a vendor. You can click the "select all" for each option (customer, vendor, or employee) and enter all your customers, for example, and then do the same to enter all your vendors, and subsequently your employees - in whatever order you choose.

QuickBooks 2008 through 2011

• How Do I Start a New
  Company in QuickBooks?
• Where Should I Save
  My Company Files?
• What is a Peer-To-Peer Network?
• What is a Client-Server Network?
• How Do I Export
  Specific Data from One
  Company to Another in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Import
  Specific Data from One
  Company to Another in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Navigate
  to Each Company in
  QuickBooks?

Customer

• How Do I Set Up a
  New Customer in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Add a
  Customer Job in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Create an
  Invoice in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Record a
  Customer Payment for
  an Invoice?
• How Do I Check
  Customer Balance in
  QuickBooks?
• How Do I Generate
  Customer Statement
  in QuickBooks?

Banking

• How Do I Set Up a
  Bank Account in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Reconcile a
  Bank Account in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Correct My
  Opening Balance to Reconcile My Bank Account in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Write a
  Check in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Pay a Bill
  in QuickBooks?
• What is the Difference
  Between Writing a
  Check and Making a
  Bill Payment?

Vendor

• How Do I Set Up a
  New Vendor in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Enter
  Bills in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Enter Bill
  Payments in QuickBooks?
• How Do I Check
  Vendor Balance in
  QuickBooks?