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Turn It Up Tuesday: Tips from Insightly to Take Your Business to 11

Welcome to Turn It Up Tuesday, where we bring you 3 weekly tips—a tip on using Insightly CRM, a tip on running your business, and a tip on improving your life. Enjoy this week’s tips!

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Using QuickBooks Online With Insightly

  • View information from the accounting program in Insightly
  • Copy and link data between the two systems
  • Create new QuickBooks Customers from Insightly

The integration does not provide a sync between the two systems.

Insightly administrators with an Intuit login can set up the integration by following the directions at Connecting Insightly to QuickBooks Online. Once the integration is installed, the QuickBooks icon and subtab will appear on each of your main records.

 

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QuickBooks can be linked to organizations, contacts, opportunities, and projects.

 

Organizations and contacts
  1. Select a contact or organization in Insightly and click the QuickBooks icon.
  2. The system will automatically search through your QuickBooks Online records for a matching organization name for organizations, and contact name or email address for contacts.
  3. If Insightly doesn’t find a match in QuickBooks, type a name in the search box and click Search.
    If a matching customer is not found in QuickBooks, you can create one without leaving the Insightly page by clicking New Customer. This function doesn’t add Vendors, only Customers.

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  1. When a match is found, click the Add Link button to link the record and show the available information in Insightly.
  2. Insightly will display an overview from QuickBooks, including contact information and a financial summary. From the Actions menu in the subtab you can:
    • Unlink the current record to remove the accounting information from this Insightly record.
    • Copy basic information (addresses, phone/fax numbers, email addresses, and website addresses) from one system to the other.
    • View the linked QuickBooks item in a new tab.
  3. Below the overview, Insightly will list estimates, invoices, and payments. Select an option from the Show list to filter the displayed items.
  4. When a match is found, click the Add Link button to link the record and show the available information in Insightly.

 

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Learn more about using QBO with Insightly.

 

 

This week’s tip was provided by Tony Roma. Tony is an Insightly product expert who has been helping businesses implement software solutions for over ten years.

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Minds Helping Minds

We all need a bit of advice or a helping hand from time to time. Fortunately, there are some great resources available to the entrepreneur community. For little or no money at all, you can tap into the wisdom of those who have “been there and done that,” in a wide variety of industries (and geographies).

The USA

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concern. The agency delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.

The United Kingdom

SmallBusiness.co.uk provides resources, products and services for small business owners and start-ups. They offer free online advice in the form of news articles, guides, tips and features that can point you in the right direction to start and run your own small business.

 

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New Zealand

Business Mentors New Zealand Limited is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the success and growth of small businesses through the knowledge and experience of our their nearly 20000 volunteer mentors.

Australia

Australia’s SBMS Experienced Business Mentors are part of the Small Business Mentoring Service. SBMS is an incorporated not-for-profit association. The organization provides access to 130 Mentors, both male and female, who have the skill and experience to help small businesses.

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Wheel House

The long days of summer are just around the corner. If bike riding is one of your go-to choices for outdoor activities, but you’re schedule makes it hard to carve out the daytime hours to enjoy the scenery, IMAXShift promises an indoor cycling experience that, “Will transport your mind and transform your body.”

 

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Now there’s a promise! Tapping into the famous IMAX movie theater experience, the kick-off event is taking place on April 25th at the flagship cycling theater in Brooklyn, New York. Each ride costs $US 31.00, so it’s not for the fain of pocketbook. If this surround-sound experience really kicks off, who knows… it could become part of your routine.

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About the author: Marta Bright is Insightly’s Content Manager. She’s been writing about the “business of technology” in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade.

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