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QuickBooks Dividing Date Synchronization Error

“QuickBooks error message: You may not create or edit a transaction dated on or before the dividing date.” If you have recently created an Accountant’s Copy of your QuickBooks data file, you may receive a synchronization error stating that a transaction cannot

Posted in Accounting, QuickBooks and Sync

Inventory Transactions Synchronize as Batch Journals

Posted inventory transactions in Acctivate are reflected in QuickBooks by batching together like transactions into Journals, then syncing those Journals over to QuickBooks. This help article will cover how those transactions are batched into Journals. Acctivate boasts an array of

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Kit Items on Sales Reports, COGS based on Components

Many sales reports in Acctivate, such as a standard Invoice report, will display all products that are associated with that sales order. If a Kit product exists on the sales order, that Kit will display on the report the same as

Posted in Accounting, Sales

Advantages of using Actual Cost with Lot/Serial controlled products

Products using Lot or Serial control are unique as they are capable of distinguishing a difference between one individual instance (Serial) or group (Lot) of the same product, in the same warehouse, from another. This allows for an exclusive Cost

Posted in Accounting, Add-On Modules, Configuration, Getting Started, Inventory

Non-Standard vs Non-Inventoried Products

Acctivate allows you to put “N” Non-standard Items on sales orders and purchase orders. These would be items that you do not stock in inventory and have no need to track in the system. There will be no record of

Posted in Accounting, Inventory

Average Cost Method

Acctivate supports a variety of methods for calculating Inventory Valuation and Cost of Goods Sold.  The most popular costing method is Average Cost. Acctivate is a perpetual inventory system using a continuous calculation of average cost.  The cost for each

Posted in Accounting

Inventory Cost Methods

Acctivate is a perpetual inventory system using a continuous calculation for the inventory valuation and cost of goods sold.  The cost for each transaction is calculated using all transactions prior to and including the specific transaction date.  Therefore, multiple transactions in a given

Posted in Accounting, Inventory

How to change customers to new currency type

For customers moving to multi-currency and needing to change over current customers to their respective native currency: QuickBooks and ACCTivate do not allow the customer to be renamed or merged with their previous customer record due to the new currency

Posted in Accounting, Customer, QuickBooks and Sync

Required GL Accounts

Each General Ledger (G/L) Account listed below is required in your Chart of Accounts.  GL Accounts are created and managed in your accounting software, Acctivate will synchronize the Chart of Accounts from your General Ledger to pull the list from

Posted in Accounting, Configuration, QuickBooks and Sync

Accrued Purchase Receipts Account

The Accrued Purchase Receipts account is created by Acctivate as a purchase suspense account. When you post an inventory receipt, Acctivate will utilize the Inventory and Purchases GL account specified on the Warehouse. Creating the Vendor Bill reconciles the balance

Posted in Accounting, Inventory, Purchasing
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