Review: QuickBooks Online for iPad a limited app with potential
Last February, Intuit released an addition to its QuickBooks Online offering, an iOS app called QuickBooks Online for iPad that allow access to your QuickBooks data without requiring you to be pinned to your desk. While it’s clearly a first generation app—which means it doesn’t have all the features I’d like to see in an app of this sort—QuickBooks Online for iPad has the potential to ease your estimating and invoicing while you’re on the road.
It’s important to note from the start that QuickBooks Online for iPad is not a standalone app that you can use to manage your business’ books, and it isn’t an app you can use with the Mac or Windows versions of QuickBooks. QuickBooks Online for iPad is solely designed as a helper app for a new or existing QuickBooks Online account. A service that costs from $13 to $40 per month. If you don’t already have a QuickBooks Online account you can use the app to create one, and if you do you can use the app to log into your existing account and go right to work.
Mobile mogul: QuickBooks Online for iPad provides offers invoicing and basic reporting tools for you QuickBooks Online account.
Work using the app is limited to a few basics functions that do not encompass everything possible with QuickBooks Online. You can add new customers, create estimates and invoices, add expenses, receive payments, and create some basic but useful reports. These features work well, but you don’t have access to some of the core functionality of QuickBooks Online and it’s also missing features that seem pretty obvious for what is ostensibly a mobile app.
Adding customers is easy, as is adding any other type of transaction. From any QuickBooks Online for iPad screen you tap a (+) that appears in the app’s upper right-hand corner, then choose either Customer, Invoice, Payment, Expense, or Note and begin adding the appropriate information. If you’re creating a customer the app is able to pull info from your Contacts app. Although, while the app offers a field for a customer photo, that photo is not imported from the Contacts app. Customers viewed within QuickBooks Online for iPad display a map pinpoint with the address location for the customer. Tapping that map opens the Maps app and automatically finds directions from your location to the customer location.
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