What Are Centers in Quickbooks?
When using Quickbooks, you may encounter Centers. The desktop version of Intuit’s popular accounting software features several sections of transactions. Known as Centers, they allow you to see all transactions involving a particular audience. Whether you own a retail store, an e-commerce store, a business-to-business (B2B) company or any other commercial enterprise, you should take advantage of this feature. What are Centers in Quickbooks exactly?
Overview of Centers in Quickbooks
Centers are sections in Quickbooks Desktop that contain all transactions involving a specific audience. The Customer Center, for instance, reveals all transactions involving your business’s customers. By accessing this section, you can see how much revenue your business generated during a given period. There’s also the Vendor Center. The Vendor Center, as the name suggests, reveals all transactions involving your business’s vendors. If your business purchases products or services from vendors, you can find these transactions in the Vendor Center.
The Employee Center lives up to its namesake by revealing employee-related transactions. Assuming your business has employees, you’ll need to pay them. You can find payments made to your business’s employees in the Employee Center. The Employee Center consists of payroll payments. Using it, you can see when your business paid its employees and how much your business paid them.
How to Use Centers in Quickbooks
Although there are different types of Centers — Customer, Vendor and Employee — they all work in the same way. After accessing a specific Center, you’ll see the names of all individuals in that specific audience in the upper-left corner of your screen. You can then click the area to the right of the names list to view their transactions. Clicking a name in a Center will bring up a details box for that individual.
Of course, you can do more than just view transactions in Centers. You can also edit the information of individuals listed in Centers. Once you’ve clicked an individual’s name in a Center, you should see a details box displayed to the right. In the upper-right corner of this details box is a pencil-shaped icon. Clicking this icon will allow you to edit the individual’s information. Maybe his or her name is incorrect, or perhaps the individual has an invalid email address. By clicking the pencil-shaped icon, you can edit information such as this to ensure that your business’s records are correct.
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