Novera Payment Solutions

As a business owner, you know it's essential in this day and age that you not only accept credit cards, but that you also accept debit cards, e-checks, and mobile payments. It's simply expected by your consumers.

Unfortunately, there is a wealth of bad and misleading information online today. Business owners can easily comparison shop for the best merchant account rates using Google, however there are so many nefarious companies pitching credit card processing solutions with bait and switch tactics, it's easy to be lured into a merchant processing contract that ends up costing you more than you ever expected and doesn't deliver all the service promised.

Novera Payment Solution Offers a Refreshing Approach to Credit Card Processing

Novera Solutions takes a completely different approach to merchant processing solutions. You won't get a bait and switch scheme here. Some of the things that make us different, heads and shoulders above the rest, in fact, include:

• We offer straight talk about why a merchant account including our “flat fee advantage” can be one of the best business decisions you’ll ever make.
• We offer complete payment integration with major accounting software applications (including QuickBooks credit card payment integration). Our API will allow you to support every type of transaction you could ask for.
• We take the mystery out of PCI compliance, and help ensure that you meet all requirements to keep your customer card holder data secure.
• We offer many levels of reporting for your convenience. If you are looking for drill down reporting on a specific merchant transaction or high level residual reporting for your agent or reseller business, we have got you covered.
• Our marketing department designs and delivers high quality marketing slicks so you can inform your customers about payment options.
• We provide complete support and guidance from merchant account conversion and boarding all the way through 24/7 365 WorldPay customer support.
• Novera can provide you with the ability to accept credit card payments online. Our Virtual terminal can allow you to set up recurring payments, one time charges... this even includes check or ACH.
• We have a programs that make sure your profits really are going to the bottom line. Including our Gift & Loyalty program that can be used to cross brand and promote additional locations. 

Learn Everything You Need to Know About In's & Out's of Credit Card Processing

Please join us in a FREE educational webinar  designed to help you understand the in's and out's of the credit card processing industry. We offer these webinars quarterly! This valuable free webinar will be 45 minutes or less and we guarantee you will learn practical information to help you make better choices when shopping around for processing services.

As an attendee of this webinar you will gain the following:

• Ability to understand Visa/MC/Disc. true underlying cost which in turn will help you negotiate better pricing
• Knowledge on how to make sure you are getting a truly fair deal for payment processing services
• Awareness of the latest in technology available in the market place today
• Tips for keeping processing costs down
• Best practices for keeping cardholder data secure and maintaining PCI compliance

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Novera makes InstantAccept available to clients who use QuickBooks

The advantage is InstantAccept integrates seamlessly with the QuickBooks software for credit card payment processing. It allows you to accept and record credir card payments and updates QuickBooks® in real time with no extra steps on your part. Combine Novera's flat fee merchant account pricing model and InstantAccept's time-saving financial integration, and you save a significant amount of money annually over those using other processors and manually entering accouting data into QuickBooks.

In addition to it's time saving integration with QuickBooks, InstantAccept also offers built-in fraud detection tools.

According to InstantAccept:

"Cybercriminals are more sophisticated than ever when it comes to conducting fraudulent transactions and accessing sensitive credit card data. InstantAccept™ works with some of the most cutting edge fraud solutions to date. This protects your QuickBooks® databases and records, keeping every transaction safe and secure."

Novera's clients using InstantAccept™ with our payment gateway integration have access to some of the most powerful credit card merchant account fraud prevention tools available.

These tools include:

IPViking

IPViking blocks suspect transactions before they are presented for authorization and payment. It works by evaluating the IP address and point of origin of every credit or debit card transaction. This helps identify and stop fraud before the transaction even takes place. Stopping fraud before the transaction occurs saves your business money in terms of preventing lost inventory, chargeback fees, and unnecessary administrative overhead.

eCommerceShield

eCommerceShield is a fraud prevention solution that protects your business pre- and post-authorization. It provides a triple layer of merchant account fraud protection that used to be available only to larger businesses.  It uses real-time threat intelligence and IP origination data to block almost all fraudulent transactions before they are sent to the issuing bank for approval.  If a fraudulent transaction does pass through for authorization, eCommerceShield features a "rules engine" that reviews high volumes of data in real-time. This offers a second level of protection for your merchant account. eCommerceShield's third layer of fraud protection offers a human element. Any transaction that gets flagged as suspicious is sent for analysis to a credit card fraud expert. The expert on the other end can then confirm valid customer orders or alert you to stop the fraudulent transaction before it is fulfilled.

Chargeback Alerts

eCommerce businesses need to take chargebacks seriously. Most business owners know that chargebacks cost the business money, but many don't realize thatchargebacks due to fraud can actually cost you your business. You can be banned from ever accepting credit cards again ... not a good situation.  Chargeback Alerts reduce the time it takes for you to be notified of potential fraud from weeks to hours. This gives you more time to nullify the chargeback or to issue a refund, preventing it from being counted toward your chargeback ratio.

The Novera Advantage

Novera Payment Solutions is a leader in the credit card payments industry. We are committed to helping your business improve its bottom line by providing significant savings on credit card processing fees through our innovative and transparent merchant account pricing models.

Contact Novera to learn more about how we work with businesses to provide the most fair and transparent pricing structure available on the market today for credit card processing and our InstantAccept plugin for QuickBooks!

Our powerful InstantAccept plugin saves your busineses an incredible amount of time and money in reduced labor. When you pair that with Novera's innovative and transparent merchant account pricing model, it's even better!

QuickBooks is by far the most popular business accounting software for companies small and large across the USA, claiming nearly 95% of the business accounting market with over 3.7 million users. With that many users, there are thousands of tips out there to help companies save time and be more efficient when using the software. 

Here are 15 of our favorite QuickBooks tips!

1. Know essential, basic keyboard shortcuts.

Rather than taking 2-3 clicks to get to a screen to perform a common task, QuickBooks keyboard shortcuts enable you to access screen in QuickBooks with a simple combination keypress. Here are a few of the essntial basic shortcuts.

CTRL-I = Create Invoice
CTRL-N = New invoice, check or bill
CTRL-F = Find Transaction
CTRL-W = Write a New Check
CTRL-A = Brings up Chart of Accounts

2. Memorize Recurring Transactions

If you have a transaction that you frequently enter (e.g. recurring bills), you can save time by memorizing the transaction for future use. If you use the transaction on a regular basis (for example, monthly), you can set it up as a recurring transaction when you memorize it. Otherwise, you can use it as needed by entering it from the Memorized Transaction list.

3. Make use of customer notes.

Using the customer notes feature in your client records save you time. Collections calls can be notated, special client requests, and any other communication. Having this information in a central location is invaluable.

4. Make use of the built in field calculator

Simply position your cursor in an amount field, enter a number or highlight the whole number, and simply press a calculating key ( +, -, *, / , %). It's like magic!

5. Make use of the QuickBooks File Manager

The file manager organizes client’s QuickBooks files by type, by year and version. The Password Vault also secures login information, user names and passwords.

6. Use colors to identify accounts easily

If you using more than one checking account, you can change the background color for quick identification of which account you are using. Simply spen the register for a checking account and click "Edit" on the menu, then and select "Change Account Color."

7. Work in multiple windows

Be super productive by using several open windows at once. You can quickly and easily navigate between them by displaying a list of them. Click "View" in the menu, then click "Open Window List."

8. Set QuickBooks to automatically place decimal points

You can save time on data entry by setting QuickBooks to automatically place a floating decimal point when you enter a number. Click "Edit" in the menu, then "Preferences". Select "General", then "My Preferences".  Then check "Automatically place decimal point". Now if you enter 49, it will enter as .49. If you enter 3295, it will enter as 32.95. With this setting enabled, obviously you need to pay special attention to ensure if mean to enter $49, you enter 4900.

9. Use Batch Invoicing

Create invoices in a batch can save you a lot of time, if it makes sense your company. For example, a subscription based service may need to invoice 100 customer $9.95 each month. Using the batch invoicing feature, you can do this all in one step. Go to the "Customers" menu, then select "Create Batch Invoices." 

10. Prepare letters and envelopes for mailing

QuickBooks has a "Prepare Letters and Envelopes" tool offers an a good selection of templates and mail-merge capabilities. This enables you to generate custom letters for customers, vendors, and employees right from QuickBooks.

11. Use "Ask My Accountant"

If you not 100% certain how a transaction should be coded, put it in "Ask My Accountant." You can temporarily house transactions here if they need to be researched, or if you truly need to have your accountant review for proper classification. Set this account up as an "Other Expense" classification so it shows in the Profit & Loss statement.

12. Backup QuickBooks

Always, always, always backup your QuickBooks data file to the cloud. External hard drives or thumb drives are ok, but they can get lost or damaged. Try using DropBox or Google Drive. How is this a time saver? If you've ever had to rebuild a QuickBooks data file, you know!

13. Personalize Your QuickBooks Icon Bar

Every business is unique. At the top of your screen, QuickBooks has an icon bar that gives you quick access to a variety of tasks. You can edit the default icons in this tool bar. Add or remove icons to suit the needs of YOUR small business.

14. Use the right-click feature for quick access

From within various QuickBooks screens, you can right-click your mouse to get quick access to relevant menus. It can definitely be quicker to access a feature you need by right-clicking to bring up the menu, than to use the toolbar and main QuickBooks menu.

15. Expand functionality with QuickBooks Add Ons

One of our personal favorite add-ons is for credit card payment processing. Novera Payment Solutions' InstantAccept or QBPlugin, provides integration for QuickBooks® payment processing for credit and debit cards, ACH (Automated Clearing House), EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer), and Electronic Check conversion using a powerful and secure Payment Gateway and Secure Vault Software. Process credit cards and checks for invoices seamlessly in QuickBooks®.

Our QuickBooks® online credit card processing is easy to use and is up and running within minutes. It is guaranteed compatibility for automated integration within QuickBooks®, so no longer is the need to ever use old outdated, unreliable, standalone credit card terminals.  If your business  has  customers present to make a payment, then a simple USB mag-swipe reader can be attached in seconds for “card swiped” transactions.

In addition to an easy to use turnkey solution for QuickBooks® users, Novera Payment Solutions has also developed a simple, transparent pricing model utilizing a “FLAT FIXED FEE” for merchant services. This saves a TREMENDOUS amount money over the built-in Intuit payment processing offered by QuickBooks!

As a business owner who accepts credit cards, it's imperative that you not only protect customer credit card numbers, but you also must protect all sensitive information around their accounts and transactions. PCI Compliance can be complex, and we've written several blog posts about it. We'll address it more in future posts.

This article focuses on the most basic security step you need to take in protecting sensitive information for your customers and your business ... creating  secure passwords.

Here are 8 tips for making your passwords more secure

1. Use a combination of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers and symbols

Hacking software uses a brute force attack process by running all possible combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols (typically at around 6 million passwords per second). Using a combination of all four (including upper and lower case characters) makes your passwords far more complex because it increases the number possibilities per digit exponentially.

2. Make sure the password is long enough

According to several security sites online, a 5 or 6 character password can be cracked by hacking software in under 3 minutes. Step it up to 7 characters and it takes about 1 week, get to 9 characters and it's over 70 years! Are you feeling the sudden urge to go change your passwords now?

3. Avoid common passwords

While it may be obvious that you shouldn't do it, people do it any way. AVOID the most commonly used passwords. According to CBS News, these are the top ten common passwords from 2013.

1.  123456

2.  password

3.  12345678

4.  qwerty

5.  abc123

6.  123456789

7.  111111

8.  1234567

9.  iloveyou

10.  adobe123 

Get the full top 25 here!

4. Change your passwords regularly

You should change your passwords every 4-6 months. And DO NOT recycle passwords. For exmaple, if you use one password for your bank account now and change it in 6 months, don't reuse that password on your QuickBooks login down the road. If you do, it leaves your accounts vulnerable to hackers.

5. Use a different password for EVERY account

Are you guilty of using the same password for every online account you have?  Stop!  The danger here is if ONE of your accounts gets compromised, they can all be compromised.  It's a hassle to use different passwords for sure, but if your business and personal financial accounts are breached, it quickly becomes more than a hassle.  If client data is breached, it can be catastrophic.

6. Use a password generator

It can be difficult to think of complex passwords, so use a password generator to assist if you need to! It will create a random complex password with the right combination of numbers, symbols, upper and lowercase letters. Norton has free password generator anyone can use ... and it's a trusted site. 
https://identitysafe.norton.com/password-generator

7. Do not share your passwords

Password ".txt" files, note pads with password lists, and post-it notes stuck to your monitor are not secure. If you must share a password with someone, NEVER email it to them.  Email is not secure. Be certain you change your password after they have used your account and are done with their work. Even though the person you are sharing the password with may be trustworthy, the system they are logging in from could easily be infected with a virus or malware that can steal information and you would never know it until it is too late.

8. Consider using a password manager

It's no secret that changing your passwords every six months, not recycling them, having at least 9 characters with a combination of upper and lower case letters, number & symbols, and not writing it down on a post-it or recording it in a notebook makes it virtually impossible to manage and remember. Fortunately, there are solutions out there to assist you. They are called password managers. There are several on the market available at a variety of price points. Just google "password manager"  and you'll have plenty of options to choose from.

We all fall victim to creating simple, easy to remember passwords, but it's a dangerous practice. Security breaches don't just happen to the "other guy" ... one day it WILL happen to you if you are not taking the proper precautions, especially with passwords.

Want to learn more about keeping your customer card holder data secure and how to ensure you are PCI compliant with your merchant account?  Contact Novera Payment Solutions ... we can help (and save your business money on credit card processing fees at the same time)!

QuickBooks accounting software was designed to make your business accounting run smoothly and help organize financial records for your CPA when tax time rolls around.  While QuickBooks is a great solution to your daily accounting needs, it can save your business money too! 

Check out these 7 ways QuickBooks can improve your business bottom line:

1. Basic Book-keeping Can Be Done In-House
   QuickBooks makes accounting simple enough that any business owner or employee can do it.  You don’t have to pay a fortune to hire a bookkeeper to do the mundane daily work for you. Basic accounting tasks can be completed in house, and you can have everything ready for your accountant as tax season approaches.
2. Payroll  and Payroll Taxes Can Be Done In-House
   QuickBooks allows you to easily do payroll and payroll taxes yourself rather than having to hire a third-party payroll service.  By cutting out the middle man, you can save money on one of your largest expenses.   
3. Eliminate the Need to Overstock on Pre-Printed Checks
   By printing your checks in-house, you save both time and money.  Using good check printing software makes the entire process seamless. You can even modify the checks to match your business, giving it a professional touch.  You will save money by not overstocking pre-printed checks from the bank.  
4. Reporting Helps Identify Issues Before They Get Out of Control
   Not only can you see how you are performing in the current year, but you can compare that data to the previous years.  By comparing reports you can easily find any inconsistencies or unusual changes and fix them before they start costing your company money.
5. Automatic Back-up Capability Saves Time & Money When Your Computer Crashes
   It’s happened to us all; you computer randomly implodes and you lose all of your data.  The QuickBooks software allows for easy backup to removable hard drives or cloud storage.  You will save time and money by not having to recreate all of that data. 
6. Tax Documents are a Breeze to Create
   When tax season rolls around, you will have all the documents you need to present to your CPA.  Rather than hunting all the information down to give to your CPA, you will be able to quickly hand over the documents saving your CPA time and you money.   It saves you time from filling out the CPA’s questionnaires and saves you money that your CPA would have been charging you to get the answers to those questions.  
7. Credit Card Processing Can Be Integrated to Eliminate Double Entry
   Novera Payment Solutions provides an integrated QuickBooks plugin to simplify  and automate credit card processing, as well as the tasks associated with accepting credit cards.  The plugin allows you to process transactions at the point of sale; and without even opening QuickBooks you can assign payments to an invoice or customer. The time savings from eliminated double-entry is great, but Novera's flat fee merchant account pricing model is where you'll immediately see the improvement in your busineses bottom line.

For more information on using QuickBooks to save your business money, check out these resources:

• How Printing Check Through QuickBooks Save Your Business Money
• QuickBooks Short Cuts to Save Your Business Money
• Streamline Your Accouting Process to Save Your Business Money
• Users Speak Out ... How QuickBooks Save Me Money
• Integrate Your Credit Card Processing with QuickBooks

QuickBooks is one of the most widely used bookkeeping tools out there, but it can get complicated when accepting multiple types of payments at multiple locations.  InsatantAccept is the solution to simplifying those transactions, while ensuring that all the behind the scenes work is still getting done. 

InstantAccept provides a standalone, single user desktop application that can process transactions at the point of sale, whether the customer is paying with cash, check or card, from your computer, mobile device or tablet.  You don’t even have to launch QuickBooks to assign these payments to an invoice or customer, create new accounts and invoices, update accounts as needed and generate reports in real time.  There’s no need to reconcile or rekey data because InstantAccept makes it automatically happen. 

Key benefits of InstantAccept

No More Hassle.

InstantAccept updates QuickBooks immediately allowing you to accept and record payments simultaneously, in real time, with no extra data entry on your part.  You can manage customer data, invoices and payments all from a single userface.  You can even allow your customers to pay invoices directly through their email.  And you can do all this from your mobile device, tablet or computer. 

Guaranteed Security.

You can allow your employees to execute transactions and update books without them being able to access your private financial and customer data.  The program also meets all current compliance standards, including PCI-DSS and SAS 70.  InstantAccept also works with some of the most cutting edge fraud solutions out there to protect your Quickbooks databases and records, keeping every transaction safe and secure. 

Grow Your Business.

With InstantAccept, you can accept multiple types of payments and consolidate all your transactions no matter where they originate.  The program also allows for payments from multiple store locations, websites and mobile devices.  If you have a merchant account or payment processor you like, you can keep everything the same, eliminating the need for multiple merchant accounts. 

Don’t worry about all your hard work going to waste; InstantAccept integrates with QuickBooks to update your records in real time.  The simplicity and flexibility of InstantAccept allows you to do what you really want to do, run your business.  For more information about InstantAccept contact Novera Payment Solutions.

Keyboard shortcuts can be a lifesaver in a time crunch.  The ability to keep your hands on your keyboard rather than switching back and forth between it and your mouse can increase productivity.  You also won’t have to search through all the buttons in the program to find what you need.  Take a look at this list of QuickBooks keyboard shortcuts from the QuickBooks User Guide to make your work simpler. 

General

To start Quickbooks without a company file – Ctrl (while opening)

To suppress the desktop windows (at Open Company window) – Alt (while opening)

Display product information about your QuickBooks version – F2

Close active window – Esc or Ctrl+F4

Dates

Next Day –  + (plus key)

Previous Day –  - (minus key)

Today – T

First day of the week – W

Last day of the week – K

First day of the month – M

Last day of the month – H

First day of the year – Y

Last day of the year – R

Date calendar – Alt + ↓ (down arrow)

Moving Around a Window

Beginning of current field – Home

End of current field - End

Next word in field – Ctrl+→

Previous word in field – Ctrl+←

First item on list or next month in register – Ctrl + Page Up

Last item on list or next month in register – Ctrl + Page Down

Activity

Create invoice – Ctrl + I

Delete check, invoice, transaction, or item from list Ctrl + D

Find transaction Ctrl + F

History of A/R or A/P transaction – Ctrl + H

Memorize transaction or report – Ctrl + M

New invoice, bill, check or list item in context – Ctrl + N

Open account list – Ctrl + A

Open Customer Center (Customers and Job list) – Ctrl + J

Open Help for active window – F1

Open list (for current drop-down menu) – Ctrl + L

Open memorized transaction – Ctrl + T

Open split transaction window in register – Ctrl + R

Open transaction journal – Ctrl + Y

Print – Ctrl + P

QuickReport on transaction or list item – Ctrl + Q

Show list – Ctrl + S

Write new check – Ctrl + W

Editing

Edit transaction selected in the list or register – Ctrl + E

Delete line from detail area – Ctrl + Del

Insert line in detail area – Ctrl + Ins

Increase check or other form number by one –  + (plus key)

Decrease check or other form number by one –  - (minus key)

Keyboard shortcuts are fast and efficient.

Some people may not care for shortcuts because they can be hard to remember; but once you get the hang of it, you realize just how much they can help.  We’re not saying you will never have to use your mouse again, but you can definitely quit reaching for that mouse every other second and actually get some work done!

The Novera Advantage

Novera Payment Solutions is a leader in the credit card payments industry. We are committed to helping businesses improve their bottom line by providing significant savings on credit card processing fees through our innovative flat fee merchant account pricing model.

Contact Novera to learn more about how we work with businesses to provide the most fair and transparent pricing structure available on the market today for credit card processing and our QBPlugin for QuickBooks!

Our powerful QBPlugin saves your busineses an incredible amount of time and money in reduced labor. When you pair that with Novera's innovative flat fee merchant account pricing model, it's even better!

Introducing the QBPlugin from Novera Payment Solutions

Whether you a new QuickBooks® user, or a power user, you'll love the new QBPlugin from Novera Payment Solutions!

The Plugin for QuickBooks® is a payment software for Credit Cards,ACH (Automated Clearing House), EFT, (Electronic Funds Transfer)and Electronic Check Conversion using a powerful and secure Payment Gateway and Secure Vault Software. You can process through your QuickBooks® software and attach it to your Merchant Accounts.

Finally, you have the freedom to choose the best solutions available to cut your processing costs & accounting times and great merchant accounts.

Benefits & Features

• Process Credit Cards
• Process ACH transactions
• Process paper checks electronically
• Real-time transactions
• Never drive to the bank again
• Reduce accounting stress and time
• Batch processing for Credit Cards, ACH checks through QuickBooks
• Process payments directly from invoices or receipts
• Process multiple invoices
• Automatically applies payments
• Pulls & Posts data to & from QuickBooks®- no double entry.
• Applies address & info updates
• Receipt Printing for Face-to-Face or shipping slips
• Card Swipe – Card in Hand
• Up to 2 Gateways (MID's) 1 Credit Card and 1 ACH
• Works with Pro, Premier, Enterprise
• QuickBooks® Multi-user support
• ISO, SSL and PCI DSS Certified
• Secure PCI Credit Card Vault
• Full Tokenization Security
• Email and Phone Technical Support
• Website and Video Training

The Novera Advantage

The features and benefits of the powerful QBPlugin save your busineses an incredible amount of time and money in reduced labor. When you pair that with Novera's innovative flat fee merchant account pricing model, it's even better!

Novera Payment Solutions is a leader in the credit card payments industry. We are committed to helping businesses improve their bottom line by providing significant savings on credit card processing fees through our innovative flat fee merchant account pricing model.

Contact Novera to learn more about how we work with businesses  to provide the most fair and transparent pricing structure available on the market today for credit card processing and our QBPlugin for QuickBooks!

QuickBooks is one of the most popular accounting programs on the market.  Even if you have been using it for years, there are some features you may not know existed.  We have put together several surprising features that QuickBooks offers.  If you haven’t used QuickBooks, perhaps these special features will help you decide to switch!

1. Fit to Width or Height

Having a report that is wider than one page can make it hard to read and understand.  It never fails when you create a new financial report, there is always one annoying line that carries over to the second page. QuickBooks allows you to shrink reports to fit on one page horizontally or vertically, enabling you to present all data on single page. Love this!

2. Search within Results

Sometimes when you do a search, you end up with hundreds and hundreds of records to scroll through.  QuickBooks actually allows you to search within a group of search results.  After you do the original search, all you have to do is check the box next to the search bar that says “search within results.”  Now you are only searching within that first group of results. Time saver!

3. Define a Custom Field

Have you ever found yourself entering customer data and wishing there was a field that isn’t available to you in the default selections?  Maybe there is a field specific to your industry that isn’t already in QuickBooks or whichever accounting program you are using.  QuickBooks actually has a feature that enables you to define/add an additional field and name it whatever you like.  Simply click “additional information” and then “define fields.” We like customization.

4. Automatically Enter Transactions that Occur Repeatedly 

Do you find yourself entering the same transactions at the end of each month for each client; or possibly even weekly?  QuickBooks has a feature that allows you to automatically set up those transactions to occur at the same time each month or each week.  By pressing “Ctrl+M,” you can bring up a tool that will allow you to set parameters for your repeating transactions.  This will save you time from manually entering the same transactions each time they occur. Time is money, right?

5. Integrate Your Merchant Account

Using Novera Payment Solutions' QBPlugin, you can quickly integrate your merchant account with QuickBooks. Between the recurring transacations and the data entry required to enter credit card payments, the QBPlugin is a huge time-saver. It eliminates your duplicate data entry, streamlines your process in accepting payments, and saves you money on credit card processing fees. Who doesn't like to save money?

With all these features and many more, QuickBooks may be the perfect solution to your accounting needs.  And if you are already using QuickBooks, these features may help you save time and be more efficient with your accounting processes. Spend some time getting to know the shortcuts and plugins available for QuickBooks software. Even though it may take some extra time in the beginning, it will save you time (and money) in the long run.

QuickBooks® pitches itself as "a better way to run your business", allowing you to do more in less time, work anywhere, anytime, including all the essentials from bookkeeping and billing to payments and payroll.

No matter what type of business you have, keeping track of all your financial information is very important.  Having a reliable accounting system that is easy to use is essential.  QuickBooks® was created for use by small business and provides many features to cover your accounting and payroll needs. 

6 Possible Advantages of Using QuickBooks® for your Business

1.  It's User Friendly.

QuickBooks® is probably one of the easiest accoutning programs out there to use.  Sample companies are available for you to practice using the program with, allowing you to navigate through all of the features without messing up any of your company's real data.  And of course, there are tips and help features to get you through any challenge that may come your way. 

2.  It's extrememly customizable.

A nice feature in QuickBooks® is the ability to customize it to fit your business.  You can upload your logo to use on letterhead, invoices and reports.  You can setup your own layout for documents to make them work the way you want them to.  You can remove unecessary fields and edit the Greeting, Salutation, and more.  There are also several different versions of QuickBooks for you to choose from depending on the type of business you have.

3. It's compatible with other popular software for business.

Since QuickBooks® is a widely used product, it is compatible with many other programs you may already use for your business.  QuickBooks® was designed to be compatible with Microsoft Excel and Acrobat Reader.  This allows you to import and export data for use in reports, presentations and more.  If you are currently using Excel for your accounting, you can easily switch to QuickBooks without losing any of your work or having to re-enter everything; simply format your Excel document and upload your current data into the QuickBooks® system from Excel to get started. 

4. It's inexpensive.

The price of QuickBooks® is very affordable compared to a lot of the other accounting programs on the market.  Prices start at about $250 for the basic boxed package and as low as $12.95 per month for the online version.  They even offer a 30-day free trial so you can try it out before purchasing. You don’t even have to go to the store for the box version because they offer the program as a download on their website. 

5. It keeps your data organized.        

QuickBooks® can store a lot of information.  It tracks all of your checks, bills and invoices and can even keep track of your inventory and send you an alert when it’s time to re-order.  This feature will not only save you time, but will also increase accuracy and reduce errors.  You will always know where your business stands financially and you can even project forecasts. 

6. If you accept credit cards, you can integrate your merchant account.

Using Novera Payment Solutions' QBPlugin, you can easily integrate your merchant account with QuickBooks. This eliminates duplicate data entry, streamlines your process, and saves you money on credit card processing fees.

From billing and payroll to statements and reports, QuickBooks® has you covered.  Whether you are a small business or a larger enterprise, QuickBooks has designed a program just for you.  If you are looking to get rid of that old ledger or are just looking for a change in your accounting software, QuickBooks could be your solution.

About Novera Payment Solutions

Novera Payment Solutions is a leader in the credit card payments industry. We are committed to helping businesses improve their bottom line by providing significant savings on credit card processing fees through our innovative flat fee merchant account pricing model.

Contact Novera to learn more about how we work with businesses  to provide the most fair and transparent pricing structure available on the market today for credit card processing and our QBPlugin for QuickBooks!