QB Winery Solutions

Office Hours 3-26-20

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Here is the recording for Office Hours today. You can find the following wine accounting & QuickBooks topics in this month’s recording:

  1. Review of Quickbooks Desktop vs Online (1 minute mark)
  2. Entering Transaction Manually (3 minute mark)
  3. The Push-in Method and Square (4 minute mark)
  4. Commerce Sync (9 minute mark)
  5. When do you run in to ‘Tax Included’? (12 minute mark)
  6. Vino Shipper, State Taxes & reimbursements (15 minute mark)
  7. Wholesale Sales to Shops – Charging Sales to a Company Card (22 minute mark)
  8. QuickBooks and the concept of price level list (39 minute mark)
  9. The Summary Method vs the Push-in Method (43 minute mark)

 

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FREE Membership During Slowdown

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Recently, we seem to have settled into a new ‘normal’ in dealing with the COVID-19 situation. My team and I empathize with your frustrations regarding being quarantined (even us hermits are getting cabin fever!) while managing the uncertainty surrounding what the future holds (3 weeks? 8 weeks?).

Even if you are not in one of the five states that have mandated closure of wine tasting rooms, small family wineries everywhere have watched their sales come to a halt. Sadly, this comes at a time when many of us have had to put our social lives on pause as well. 

What are you planning to do with all of this extra time?

  1.       Untangle that pallet of wine?
  2.       Catch up on your filing?
  3.       Take an eCourse that has been lingering on your ‘to-do’ list?

If option #3 is your FIRST choice, I have an offer for you:

We have created a new FREE limited time only club membership: The Copper Club. Copper Club members have access to everything on our website that was previously only available to Silver Club members:

  •         Our foundation course: How to use QuickBooks in the Wine Industry
  •         For the excel nerds: How to Calculate the True Cost of your Wine
  •         Our new course: The Costing Book Checklist
  •         Plus all mini-courses and ‘quickies’

Copper Club members may also post questions in the Forum. Our experts answer these questions. These are not crowd-sourced, so you don’t have to guess if the answer is correct!

If you’ve ever considered joining, this may be a great time to check out just a few of the benefits our Silver Club members enjoy year round.

Is your wine glass half full or half empty? We hope a limited time free membership makes it half full. Please share this post with your wine industry friends.

Office Hours 3-24-20

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Here is the recording for Office Hours today. You can find the following wine accounting & QuickBooks topics in this month’s recording:

  1. Square Sales Summary Procedure (3 minute mark)
  2. Sales Summary Procedure – Sales Tax  (7 minute mark)
  3. Sales Tax Item for your Local Sales Tax Rate (16 minute mark)
  4. Sales Shipped out of California –  Tax rules (20 minute mark)
  5. Automations synced to Square (25 minute mark)
  6. Tracking Exclusions on a spreadsheet (27 minute mark)
  7. Custom Summary Report to filter depletions (33 minute mark)
  8. Budgets and Forecasts (35 minute mark)
  9. Virtual Tastings (43 minute mark)

 

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Office Hours 2-25-20

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Here is the recording for Office Hours today. You can find the following wine accounting & QuickBooks topics in this month’s recording:

  1. Picking Bins – What Account should they be sold under? How is it invoiced and how’s it taken out of assets? (1 minute mark)
  2. VinoShipper – an option for small wineries looking to ship out of state (11 minute mark)
  3. Costing & Grapes – Growing your own grapes? What’s your yield of Farming VS Winery? (14 minute mark)
  4. Changing to cash basis for the tax return. (23 minute mark)
  5. Ready to sell wine? How to track bottle sales & sales by the glass (29 minute mark)
  6. Managing gratuities (33 minute mark)
  7. Traveling to events to sell your wine? Changing the tax rate using Square (35 minute mark)
  8. Preferred Class Lists – Keep them simple (43 minute mark)

Need help with creating classes and job flags? Watch “Using QB in the Wine Industry” for more information.

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Cash Basis vs Accrual

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In honor of tax season, I am unlocking a lesson in the How To Calculate the True Cost of Your Wine so that everyone can hear this information.

This lesson explains the difference between Book Cost and Tax Cost and how the recent tax changes have affected this issue.

The critical points are:

  • You must use True cost/Accrual in your QuickBooks file so that you have accurate numbers to manage the business.
  • The tax preparer can convert from True cost/Accrual to Tax cost/Cash basis in their work-papers (but you cannot convert in the other direction)

For the non-accountants, in this context these terms mean the same thing:

Book cost = True cost = Accrual

Tax cost = Cash basis

We have an on-demand lesson for the tax preparers on how to convert from Accrual cost to Cash basis costing GO HERE .

We also offer live seminars with CPE on this very topic, led by Tyler Willis, CPA . For the schedule GO HERE.

Office Hours 10-29-19

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Here is the recording for Office Hours today. You can find the following wine accounting & QuickBooks topics in this month’s recording:

  1. Part 1: I watched the Grapes, Grapes Grapes course, but I am a VERY Small winery – Do I have to use the clearing account to record my grapes? – at the .51 min. mark
  2. Part 2: Why should I use Purchase Orders during harvest? – at the 3.11 min mark
  3. How do I find if the cost inventory is set up in the file? (We show how to find the report and how to use it) at the 22.18 mark
  4. What are the 5 Fundamentals of a winery QuickBooks File – at the 36.53 min mark
  5. Is there a more simple way to do the costing book? – at the 43.38 minute mark

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Office Hours 08-27-19

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Here is the recording for Office Hours. The topics that came up were:

  1. Creating an invoice for a client that includes reimbursable expenses. (How to enter a bill or check with the reimbursable expense and tag a client so you can add to their invoice.)
  2. Moving custom crush bulk wine to COGS; – at the 11.50 min. mark.

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Office Hours 07-30-19

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Here is the recording for Office Hours. The topics that came up were:

  1. After 10 years of business, how do you fix your QB file? at the 1:01 min. mark
  2. Converting QB Desktop to QB Online; things to consider – at the 18.40 min. mark.
  3. File Hosting in QB (alternatives to QB online) – at the 22:30 min. mark.
  4. Bottle Runs – recording case goods into inventory (hint: not when you sell them) – at the 32:00 min. mark
  5. How to record and track the purchase of grapes – at the 36:33 min. mark.
  6. How to record custom crush contract expense – at the 45:07 min. mark.

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Office Hours 06-25-19

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Here is the recording for Office Hours. The topics that came up were:

Note: The first question was not captured on video. The topic and answer can be found in our forum here

  1. Converting QB Desktop to QB Online; things to consider – at the .26 min. mark.
  2. Inventory Date when converting from QB Desktop to QB Online – at the 12:34 mark.
  3. CA Consumer Privacy Act – at the 14:00 mark.

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Costing Book Activities

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I updated the Costing Course (How to Calculate the True Cost of Your Wine) and I added several activities so you can practice some of the techniques I discuss.

I also added a new module with a 4th costing book example. This module explains the different choices you can make when laying out the costing book. Depending on your winemaking processes and your business needs, you may choose to have a few or a lot of bulk lots. If you have just a few bulk lots in your costing book, it will be easier to maintain the costing book.

Module 7 – Steffie Farm and Vineyard

Activity – Chart of Accounts

Activity – Allocation Math

Activity – Costing Book

Activity – Bulk Lots

Have fun!

The Crush

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