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Peachtree checks are different than Quickbooks Business Checks
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 12:24 AM
Saturday, January 28, 2012
What is the main difference of quickbooks business checks and peachtree business checks? Quickbooks business checks are on the top, or a full page of checks. They are available in so many styles and colors. You can get them with lines, or with out lines. Dont forget to add your logo. It will always make your business checks look more professional, not required.
Peachtree business checks are in the middle only. You can customize them in four different styles, or you can edit it your self. They are available in the same colors as quickbooks business checks. They do not come with lines at all. Quickbooks and peachtree checks are available with one or two signature lines. Left or center alignment for the business address. Ask for samples to see what may be the best for you.
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Want to save money for your business, see if your bank offers onsite check deposit
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 10:27 PM
Friday, January 20, 2012
Are you driving more than 30 minuets overall just to deposit checks for the business? Gas prices going up, using your vehicle, or the company vehicle can really add up to more than $35 a month. Need to remain at the office for phone calls, and to assist customers intead of going to the bank can really save you alot of time.
Ask your bank representative to see if they offer Onsite Check Deposit. You can deposit personal checks, quickbooks checks, peachtree business checks, and possibly money orders right from your office. Its easy to do, and you can save alot of time and money in the long run. You may have to pay for the check reader, but you’ll be able to assist your customers better. With out customer service, your business is nothing. We all rely on the best service possible.
Keep your accounting software updated to prevent problems
posted by Odd Ball @ 11:32 PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
When you buy a busienss accounting program. Its always important to make sure your software is up to date. If you dont keep your software updated, it could cause you to have accounting mistakes with payroll, taxes or something else with the program. Peachtree is very easy to keep updated and so is quickbooks. While your checking to make sure your program is updated, what about your Quickbooks business checks? Do you have enough of them.
If your ordering yoru business checks often. Its great to have that company to offer a friendly reminder to make sure you have enough checks. Customer service comes in so many levels, but knowing you have it makes your business run more efficiently.
Add color logo to your business checks and make them stand out more
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 11:22 PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
We always want to look professional for our customers. Why not do the same for your business checks. Adding your business color logo to all of your documents, really does make a huge difference. Some don’t care and look at it as saving money on ink. Yes that’s good but, isnt your image as a company along with your customer service even more important.You don’t want a logo that is not showing up good, or looks copied. 
Making your business checks stand out, shows the customer how important it is to look good. Color logo can even be a watermark onto the check as well. Make sure the logo is very clear and is in a JPEG format. Higher the image quality it, the better it will look on the busienss check. It may cost a little bit, but wow, it does make a difference.
Keeping your customers information safe and protect your business
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 11:30 PM
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
We love the holidays, but so do theifs as well. Always make sure your shopping cart provider is on the SSL list. Keeping up with your merchant provider and make sure they issue the PCI compliance certification to your company. Making sure that your site is encrypted so when the customers check out, they’ll see the HTTPS. The (S) at the end of HTTP, tells the customer that your site is secure with their information.
When customers check out. Its important that their credit card information does match their card issuing bank on check out. Look for IP address coming from overseas, but has a billing and shipping address different, and with overnight am delivery, is a red flag that it could be a fraud order. Tightening up on your checkout process, will protect your business and the customers. Customers love security, but fraud orders hate it. If the customers mail a business check, make sure you hold the check to ensure its a good check. After it clears then ship the product to the customer. It doesn’t matter if its a quickbooks business check or peachtree business check.
With the economy not doing good, and thieves are looking for shipping items like, UPS, USPS, and FedEx. So…who is responsible for a package if its been delivered, but stolen? Was the package insured? Do you do a charge back to get your money back from the shipper? What happens if its business checks being shipped?
By default, UPS and Fedex offers insurance automatically of $100 on all packages. If its USPS, you had to have the shipper to add insurance to the package then. Its a very good question to figure out and hard as well. To make things easy. Make sure you have your package signed for, and insured as well. This can become a very complex situation easily and turns to a blame game. Large special orders, pay a little extra to make sure the customer receives it, even if they have to and get the package at their local hub. Easier the better, and customer service for the business that sent it to, makes them look good, and have a happy customer.
I enjoy shopping and looking around to see what the best deals i can get. Im opening up a new store that will be a brick n mortar store, and ecommerce store as well. I was looking around today to find the best deals on business checks that i can get. I found free shipping, 15% off, and if your order was more than $200, get a free visa gift card. I called to find out what their process was and come to find out. I could receive the checks by the end of the week.
Shopping for business checks is something that you’ll need guidance through if its the first time shopping. I had no idea that their was so many colors, styles, choices and variety that was out there. Having someone to guide me through the process was amazing. Since i was needing to save money, I found the best deals by looking for cheap business checks.
Keeping track of your business expense is easy with the right program
posted by number generator @ 11:54 PM
Friday, November 18, 2011
At the end of the year, we all need to know what our business profit, and expenses are. They need to be broken down into different catagories. If you use Peachtree or Quickbooks, it will work great. Their is a difference between the programs. They both can be specific for your business type, and their is a huge difference with the inventory.
Peachtree will offer you FIFO and LIFO and give you an accurate amount of your profit or loss. Quickbooks will give you the average. Its just the way they work. Make sure you enter every thing you spend or income so it will be easy on your accountant, and doing taxes. Towards the end of the year, its always good to go-ahead and order any supplies, or business checks you need so it can be written off for the current year.
Always keep your Quickbooks accounting program updated
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 6:33 PM
Friday, November 11, 2011
With any accounting software, you always need to keep it updated. If your using a older version of Quickbooks, yes it will still work for your accounting, but it wont have the latest features or upgrades you may need to keep current with payroll or other features. If you make a purchase for Quickbooks business checks, check to make sure your software is upgraded.
Buy upgrading will even allow you to upgrade to the next level if you need to. With a business growing, always go up to the next level, so you wont have to worry about running out of space or having a technical problem. One important thing is that the banks will require you to have a certain year of quickbooks to work with their software, so then you can download and recon
cile your account easier.
Very glad the banks have cut the debit card fees
posted by admin @ 11:10 PM
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
With the banks cutting the debit card fees is making alot of consumers happy. The major banks have heard us and has listened. Bank of America has finally decided to pull the $5 a mth card fee. They were the last major bank of doing that. But, even though the major banks have canceled the fee. They will find another way to get the money made up one way or another.
Make sure when or if you do switch to a new bank, that you ask as many questions about their fees as possible and read the Disclosure booklet first before agreeing to anything. When your getting a new account setup. Make sure all of your business checks has cleared the old bank before closing it out. Same way with any of the debit card transactions. Dont want to have any NSF fees.
Best customer service really shows off in the long run
posted by number generator @ 9:33 PM
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Today in the news. They were talking about Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank with customer service. They had won the best customer service award. Problem resolution is an issue industry-wide. Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo were statistically tied with 64%, 66%, and 64% of customers’ issues resolved on the customer service call, while 57% of Citi customers surveyed reported their problems were solved with their customer service.
Offer the best and your brand and company will stand out. Who would want to do business with someone that wont help you. When your ordering business checks, you’ll have questions, like: what is your shipping policy? Do you offer a proof or samples? What happens if i order the wrong product? I cant get my debit/credit card to go through? Helping with the most important part of your business and being nice, friendly, and helpful will go along way. So….do what is right and help others. You’ll have a higher conversion rate, and repeat customers for sure. If your ordering quickbooks business checks, make sure you have your logo imprinted.
Gaining more customers with some easy things
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 7:39 PM
Monday, October 3, 2011
Do you want more customers and increase your customer conversions? A few things you can do. Increase your customer service. If your on the phone, have a great personality, and professionalism. Dont make your customers feel like that your in a hurry to get off the phone to get to the next customers. Treat everyone equality. If you have a huge quote and order to do. Help them out, especially if they are new customers. Do the quote, offer the price, set up the account for them, and help them with the check out process. Next time, show them how they can re-order the same thing easier.
By offering your customers more options, great customer service, and a wide variety of payment opinions. Your customers will come back each and every time. Make sure you fulfill the order quickly and exceed their expectations. Do follow up’s with the customers to make sure everything is ok and their product/service is just what you wanted. IF you accept business checks for a payment and they are a re-peat customer. Don’t wait for the check to clear as it has before, and process their order quicker, as you know it will go through. So…little things can make a huge impact on your brand and company.
Dont wait till the last moment to order business checks as it will cost more
posted by Odd Ball @ 9:25 PM
Monday, September 19, 2011
Its always a good idea to save money, and dont wait to the last moment to order checks, then have them to be shipped express. Shipping express will cost you more, especially if the company your ordering from is across the country. When starting a new business, always look for the best deal as possible. Express shipping will cost you more.
Buy more in quantity as it will save you more money for the order. 250 Qty can cost up to $.15 each each, where as 3000 can be $.08 per sheet/check. If you look in the right spot, you can always find a good deal online. Dont forget to order your envelopes along with the checks. Business checks 
come in so many different styles, and colors.