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  • Consolidated Financials

    Consolidated Financials

    The Problem Client overview Cochner Garvey Capital Partners, Inc. (CGCPI) is a Wichita-based private equity firm with an investment history of over 50 years, focusing its investment on middle market companies. CGCPI holds nine separate entities, each with its own QuickBooks company file. QuickBooks limitations CGCPI moved to QuickBooks Enterprise from Sage and FRX Reports and…

  • Emergency Inventory Report For Quickbooks™

    Emergency Inventory Report For Quickbooks™

    While some businesses have shuttered or slowed down, two of my customers are going berserk with new orders. One sells disinfectant wipes products, and the other sells take out containers for the food service industry. You can just imagine what’s happening there. They use QuickBooks™ to manage inventory, and they just don’t have comprehensive reports…

  • SOLVED: CUSTOM INVOICING FOR MULTIPLE ROLE RATES

    SOLVED: CUSTOM INVOICING FOR MULTIPLE ROLE RATES

    CLIENT OVERVIEW Matarozzi Pelsinger (MatPel), a high-end custom home builder in the San Francisco Bay Area, employs more than 50 employees and hundreds of subcontractors to build five to eight homes each year for the most exacting of customers. HERE’S ONE EXAMPLE OF THEIR GENIUS THE PERILOUS TRANSITION TO QUICKBOOKS MatPel recently transitioned from Viewpoint,…

  • Consolidated Financials

    Consolidated Financials

    Client Overview Cochner Garvey Capital Partners, Inc. (CGCPI) is a Wichita-based private equity firm with an investment history of over 50 years, focusing its investment on middle market companies. CGCPI holds nine separate entities, each with its own QuickBooks company file. QUICKBOOKS LIMITATIONS CGCPI recently moved to QuickBooks Enterprise from Sage and FRX Reports and…

  • 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…