Technical Details to Help You Determine if Enterprise Solutions Is Right for Your Business.
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 12.0
Before you make the decision to purchase QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions – and even before you discuss your needs with an Enterprise Solutions consultant – get answers to your technical questions here.
See what’s involved in installation
Learn how to upgrade your files/data
Understand important differences between Enterprise Solutions and QuickBooks Pro & Premier
IMPORTANT: This information is subject to change. Before installing QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, speak with a support representative (by calling 1-866-935-7237) and/or refer to the “Upgrader Guide” included in your installation package.
Due to changes in how sales tax is tracked, reports are not available for sales tax periods that were completed in your previous version of QuickBooks.
If you want to view sales tax reports for past sales tax periods, open your original company file in your previous version of QuickBooks.
Piggyback Sales Taxes
“Piggyback” sales taxes are sales taxes that are applied to the base cost of an item or service plus the GST. Piggyback taxes are typically used only in Québec and Prince Edward Island.
When Enterprise Solutions upgrades your company file, it looks at your company’s home province as specified in the Company Information window. If you have custom sales tax codes that have the “piggyback” checkbox set incorrectly for your province, Enterprise Solutions does the following:
If the company is in Québec or PEI, all custom sales tax codes are changed to piggyback taxes
If the company is not in Québec or PEI, all custom sales tax codes are changed to non-piggyback taxes
In both cases, the percentage rate of the tax code is adjusted so that the effective tax rate is the same. Assuming that your previous tax rate was correct (that is, that your old tax rate took piggyback taxes into account), you can use the same sales tax codes as before.
Tax Agencies
In Enterprise Solutions, tax agencies (such as the Canada Revenue Agency) are treated as vendors, and specific information about taxes paid to them is stored in their vendor records. When you edit a tax agency vendor, you can find the sales tax information on a new tab called Tax Agency Info. For example, this tab is where you specify your sales tax reporting period.
Enterprise Solutions creates different sales tax agencies depending on your province or the province your business is located in. For example, “Receiver General” is the federal sales tax agency you use when paying and filing GST/HST outside of Québec.
Permissions & User Controls
Earlier versions of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions added and changed some permissions. These changes are rolled into Enterprise Solutions 12.0, as well. Please check the permissions assigned to your users to ensure they still have the correct privileges.
Go to the Company menu
Click Users and Passwords
Click Set Up Users and Roles
Accountant's Copy Changes
Accountant’s Copy files created in QuickBooks 2009 or earlier cannot be opened as an Accountant’s Copy in Enterprise Solutions. You have two options for working with Accountant’s Copy from older versions:
Open the file in your previous version of QuickBooks.
Convert the Accountant’s Copy to a regular company file. You won’t be able to work on the company file at the same time as your client, and he or she will not be able to import your changes automatically.
Third-Party Applications
This version of Enterprise Solutions is now compatible with many applications created for the US version of QuickBooks. You can find up-to-date plug-in applications on the Web at marketplace.intuit.com
However, third-party applications that were created for previous versions of QuickBooks may not work with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. Contact the application’s vendor for an upgraded version.
