I have been using RightTool since last Fall, and I am smitten with how it has taken so much of the “ughness” out of QuickBooks Online.

It’s no secret that I love QBO. It’s also no secret that QBO has some irritations, particularly with efficiency and user experience. This is a large part of peeps hesitation to move from QuickBooks Desktop; the smooth, efficient experience that desktop has. RightTool, by and large, solves this.

“RightTool creates the QuickBooks Desktop efficiency we crave in the QuickBooks Online we love.”

QBO Tech Tip

Review company settings before doing any client work or when setting up a QBO file from scratch.

Numbering in the QBO Chart Of Accounts is turned off by default.

You need to go into the company settings and turn it on.

Which I highly recommend you do!

QBO Tags have so many cool uses, yet I don’t many people who have embraced them.

Actually tags are underrated in many of cloud applications.

I still need to do a RightTool deep dive, but I already love the few features I use.

And I want to share with all of you, in two parts, my RightTool journey.

I have barely scratched what this magical Chrome browser extension can do.

I have not taken the time to do a deep dive review on RightTool yet, as I’ve had a lot going on since it came out. I had to move playing with it quite far down on my to-do list.

My accounting friends and colleagues were raving about it, though, and I heard it solved a few QBO issues. I decided I could install the RightTool extension and implement only the issue solvers from which I knew I could benefit. I could put off the heavy lift to explore all the features.

QBO Tech Tip - Dealing with bank feed orphans

The Sales Tax Module income often doesn't match the P&L income - this is not a news flash, but it can be a simple fix.

The trouble comes from how the tax codes track transactions to Line 101, specifically mis-use Out of Scope and Exempt codes.