GETTING AROUND IN THE

NEW QUICKBOOKS
What’s New in QuickBooks Online
We’ve made some changes to QuickBooks Online, inspired by input from you, our users.
This guide gives you a roadmap to those changes. Let’s get started.

Contents
The Roadmap: What’s New
A Quick Overview 3

Compass Points
The Navigation Bar 4
The Create (+) Menu 5
The Gear 6

Where Do I Find?
The New Customer Center 7
The New Vendors Center 8
My Employees 9
My Banking 10
Income List 11
My Reports 12
My Lists 13
The Shortcut Keys 14

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THE ROADMAP: WHAT’S NEW

A Quick Overview Create (+) menu Gear

First of all, you’re going to notice some

Navigation bar
organizational changes.

We know you’re used to working in specific

ways, and we want to help you transition
your workflows to the new QuickBooks.
(We also know this may be a little painful
initially, but we’ll help you through that).
You’ll get the hang of it quickly, and see
how the new QuickBooks can streamline
your work.

Let’s start with some important compass

points. We call them:

The navigation bar

The Create (+) menu
The Gear icon

We’re going to walk you through each of

them, so you understand what they are
and why we’ve made these changes.

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COMPASS POINT

The Navigation Bar

The navigation bar, on the left side of the
page, has the items that you used to see in
tabs across the top of the page (like
Customers, Vendors, and Employees).

You used to have to select a tab and then

click on a menu, but now it takes just one
click to see how you’re doing, what you’ve
done, and choose what you want to do
next. Try it out for customers, vendors,
employees, and transactions.

Here are two examples:

• Click Customers to create a new

invoice for a customer, or review a
customer’s history with you over time.

• Click Transactions to review your

banking information, or manage your
accounts (with no need for tab
jumping, like in the old QuickBooks).

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COMPASS POINT

The Create (+) Menu: Your Source for All Forms

Use the (+) to start anything new for
anyone you work with: customers,
vendors, employees, etc. Here’s
just a small sample of what you can do:

• For customers you can create an

invoice, receive a payment, set up an
estimate, and more.

• For your vendors you can record an

expense, check, or bill, and more.

• For employees, you can set up a

paycheck, a single time activity, or a
weekly timesheet.

• You can even review bank deposits,

transfer funds, make a journal entry,
and create and send statements.

QUICK TIPS
• For Statement, look at the last link under Other, on the far right side of the menu.
• If the Create menu is “collapsed” when you open it (and doesn’t show all of the options),
just click More to open the full menu.

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COMPASS POINT

The Gear: Your Toolbox

The Gear lets you manage tasks that you
do less often, like changing company
settings, managing your chart of accounts,
setting up products and services, or
reviewing recurring transactions.

It’s organized so that you can quickly get

to tasks that involve your settings and your
lists, use tools like importing, exporting,
reconciling or budgeting, and manage the
details of your account.

QUICK TIPS
• Preferences is now called Company Settings, and you’ll find it right under Settings.
• Activity Log has been changed to Audit Log (to be more in line with accounting industry
standards), so look for it under Tools.
• Reconcile is also in the Tools menu.

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WHERE DO I FIND?

The New Customer Center Page

This page makes it easy to find the customer you’re looking for and take the appropriate next action.
You’ll see more data here now, and quickly send emails and statements from the Batch actions dropdown.

Next recommended action

is listed here, or you can
open the dropdown to do
other tasks, like receiving
payment, creating an invoice,
or creating an estimate.

QUICK TIP
Check out our blog to learn even more about the new Customer center page:
http://blog.qbo.intuit.com/2013/12/04/whats-changed-in-quickbooks-online-customers-and-vendors/

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WHERE DO I FIND?

The New Vendors Center Page

This page makes it easy for you to find the vendor you’re looking for, create a purchase
order, write a check, and much more.

Now you can pay one

vendor right here. You
can also choose the next
recommended action, or
open the dropdown and
do other tasks like creating
an expense, or creating a
purchase order.

QUICK TIP
Access all your vendor forms
(Expense, Check, Bill, and more),
from the Create (+) menu.

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WHERE DO I FIND?

My Employees
Use the Employees page to see a list of all your employee information, and set up or use Payroll.

QUICK TIP
Use the Create (+) menu to create
Paychecks (if you have Payroll
enabled) and record Single Time or
Weekly activities for your employees.

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WHERE DO I FIND?

My Banking
It’s under Transactions in the
navigation bar.

We’ve created a centralized

location where you can
manage all of your accounts.
Just click on Transactions
to reveal Banking and select
it to open the Bank and
Credit Cards page.

To connect a bank account to

your financial institution (so
you can download electronic
statements), click Add Account
at the top right of the page.
This may have been called QUICK TIP
either “download transactions” In the navigation bar you’ll also find Sales, Expenses, Registers, and the Print Checks
or “online banking” in your setup. (Just a reminder that Print Checks is available for US and Canada only.)
old QuickBooks.

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WHERE DO I FIND?

Income List
It’s under the Transactions tab.

The Income List has been

renamed “Sales,” and is
grouped in the Navigation bar
with other transaction lists.

QUICK TIP
Just click on the Money Bar
to do a fast sort of your
transactions.

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WHERE DO I FIND?

My Reports
Use the Reports page to
see an overview of your
available reports.

Below the search bar are links

for Recommended, Frequently
Run, My Custom Reports, and
All Reports. (Recommended
Reports shows what reports
other businesses like yours
are running.) Use these handy
links to move quickly between
different reports.

The new Reports page gives

you a lot of flexibility. Search
All Reports if you’re not sure
what you’re looking for, go to
My Custom Reports for your
memorized reports, and check
out Frequently Run for your DETAIL VIEW

most-used reports.
QUICK TIP
To find Scorecord, go to All Reports > Business Overview > Scorecord. Take some
time to look around and see what else you can find.
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WHERE DO I FIND?

My Lists
Click All Lists under the
Lists column to find: Chart
of Accounts, Recurring
Transactions, Products and
Services, Locations, Payment
Methods, Terms, Classes, and
Attachments.

You can get right to your

most frequently used lists
via the Gear. Just click the
link (Products and Services,
Recurring Transactions, or
Attachments.)

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WHERE DO I FIND?

The Shortcut Keys

We know how important
shortcut keys are to some
users. To see a handy list
of shortcuts built into the
new QuickBooks, just
press Ctrl+Alt+?

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