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  • Why DIY Is For Losers

    Why DIY Is For Losers

    And by losers, I mean people who aren’t winning in the game of business. (The totally generous definition of loser.) The Sad Truth Is That DIY Is A Seemingly Harmless Trap That So Many Of Us Fall Into. A few months ago we created a great job cost report for Jack. We made it look…

  • The State Of Datisfaction

    The State Of Datisfaction

    Since 2014 we have worked with over 100 companies, solving very specialized and highly important problems. The general reaction of our customers is something like, “Wow! That’s even better than what we had envisioned. Thank you for saving us so much time and frustration!” In my experience, that is a rare reaction for I.T. solutions.…

  • How Quickbooks Can Hurt Restaurants

    This year, we performed a miracle We helped two restaurant groups to get consolidated profitability reports for the QuickBooks files from multiple locations. WHY DID THIS REQUIRE A MIRACLE? It seems QuickBooks is not known for easy consolidation of multiple entities; in fact, they are known for the exact opposite. But using QQube for QuickBooks,…

  • Case Study: Inventory Intelligence

    Case Study: Inventory Intelligence

    CLIENT OVERVIEW Counterpoint Musical Services is a Canadian company dedicated to serving music retailers with fast, efficient and friendly personal service. They have built their business on the premise that nothing is more important than getting orders to their customers quickly: “We strive to ship all orders placed by noon on the same day. Think…

  • QQube And Quickbooks Inventory – I’m In Love

    Thank goodness learning never stops here at Datisfy. This week I learned (and proved to myself) that the brilliant folks at Clearify programmed the QQube to sum Open Sales Order quantities for Inventory Assemblies, cross-reference that with the required parts quantities in all related Bills of Materials (BOM), and determines a TOTAL demand for each…

  • Split Commissions – Really

    Companies have all kinds of ways of splitting and calculating commissions. The reason Datisfy exists today is because of an initial customer’s need to split commissions in QuickBooks data – without any manual involvement. We have now worked with three commission splitting situations that QB couldn’t handle internally. Nor could Xpanded Reports, which has now…

  • Custom Quickbooks Reports In Minutes? Yes!

    A funny thing happened after I wrote this post in July 2013 about building a Commission Report for QuickBooks. I started to get a lot of inquiries about doing other custom QuickBooks reports using Crystal Reports. I’m thinking “Oh, golly, no!”  It was ornery and time consuming and awful. I couldn’t fathom business owners trying…

  • Crystal Reports And Quickbooks

    Just finished creating what I consider a simple report for a customer who uses QuickBooks. He was spending at least 5 hours a month manually generating commission reports for each member of the small group of sales reps in the company. It was extremely onerous. With a quick bit of research, I designed a report…

  • Raving Fan For PDF-Explore

    After 16 years as a Crystal Reports specialist and veteran, I am thrilled with PDF-Explode. It is one of the most clever applications I’ve encountered for small and medium sized businesses. It is saving two of my customers HOURS AND HOURS of time every month, eliminating several manual processes (like running multiple versions of the…

  • Crystal Reports – It Ain’t Cool

    It’s hard to believe that I’ve been doing Crystal Reports since 1996 – that’s almost 25 years! I remember reading Microserfs by Douglas Coupland around 1995 when I lived in Whistler. I applied to work at Microsoft, but at the time had no specialized computing skills. I was so enamoured by the idea of working…