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MonsterBooks

What is MonsterBooks?
Operating a successful online business demands that you have an easy way of managing your finances and orders on your home PC. MonsterBooks takes the pain out of copying new orders from your online store one at a time into QuickBooks. With a few mouse clicks you can import dozens of orders into QuickBooks, automatically updating your inventory levels. Customers and Products are automatically added in as well as your shipping and payment methods.

For those of you who have used MonsterBooks 2.1, You will find that with the 4.0 version of MonsterBooks you can also update the status of orders and update inventory in your MonsterCommerce store based on information from QuickBooks. You will also see a dramatic increase in speed and overall performance.

MonsterBooks 4.0 Feature Summary

Download orders and their products, shipping, payment, customers etc., from your store into QuickBooks

Import Orders

  • Imported as either Invoices, Sales Receipts, and Sales Orders
  • Prefixes and Suffixes can be added to Order reference numbers to aid in keeping sales sources straight
  • New Orders can be imported as Pending and/or To Be Printed
  • Skip or Add Orders which have matching order referencing numbers with existing orders in QuickBooks
  • Orders can be deleted from QuickBooks based upon order statuses in your online store
  • Orders in your online store can have their status changed based upon QuickBooks information
  • You can force a Receivables account or Sales Rep on each new Order

Import Line Items

  • Discounts, Delivery Charges, Packing Fees, and Order Tax can be brought over as line items
  • Specify Sales Tax origin state to determine whether or not sales tax will be applied
  • Order Notes and Checkout questions from your online store can be imported
  • Order Weight can be imported (shows up as a line item description)

Import Products

  • Products can be matched with existing QuickBooks items based upon MC PartNumber, MFGNumber and ID
  • Products not already in QuickBooks can be added in as either Inventory Parts or Non-Inventory Parts
  • Choose which Income, COGS, and Asset Accounts to use
  • Import cost and quantity
  • Update existing items in QuickBooks with the most recent information from your online store
  • Products can be imported into or updated in QuickBooks independent of Orders

Inventory Manangement

  • Inventory counts in QuickBooks can be uploaded to your online stores for better inventory management

Import Customers

  • Customers not already in QuickBooks can be added automatically and can be created as Pending if desired
  • User has control over how new Customer Job names are created
  • User has control over how Customer names appear in Invoices/Sales Receipts/Sales Orders
System Requirements & Compatibility
MonsterBooks is currently available for Windows users only.
One of the following versions of QuickBooks must be used:
  • QuickBooks: Pro 2004
  • QuickBooks: Premier 2004
  • QuickBooks: Enterprise 2004
MonsterCommerce recommends using QuickBooks 2004 with MonsterBooks, however QuickBooks 2003 is fully compatible as well. You will see that QuickBooks 2004 has a few nice “bells and whistles.” QuickBooks 2002 is not recommended as some features of MonsterBooks are not compatible with this version, however, it is possible to use QuickBooks 2002 for the most basic features of MonsterBooks.
 
Get Started
MonsterBooks is free of charge.
MonsterCommerce customers receive Free Upgrades and New Releases of MonsterBooks!
 
 
Support
View the Frequently Asked Questions for answers to common MonsterBooks questions.
Chat with other MonsterBook users in the Community Forums.
Manual: MonsterBooks - 4.x Software
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