Additional procedures for creating a new UK QuickBooks 2008 file.

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Intuit's software development Kit (SDK) for UK QuickBooks 2008 has several bugs which require changes in procedures needed to start a new QuickBooks file. The revised procedures are as follows:

1. Using QuickBooks, export the following lists from the old QuickBooks file to IIF files.
    a. Employees.
    b. Items.
    c. Vat Codes.

2. Open the Items IIf file using Excel and delete all items except sales-tax items and sales-tax group items. Sales-tax items and group items can't be transferred using the SDK. However, the other items can't be imported using IIF because the IIF items don't include a Vat code for purchases and they have to be imported using the SDK instead of IIF. Save this adjusted file in the text format.

3. Using QuickBooks, create the new QuickBooks file. During this process skip the interview and choose "Other/None for the "Select your industry" screen so that one of the canned charts of accounts is not added to your file.

4. Using QuickBooks, open the new file and open the "Receive Payments" screen so that QuickBooks will automatically create the Undeposited Funds account.

5. Using QuickBooks, import the three IIF files in the following sequence. Employees, Items (as noted in 2 above this file should contain only sales-tax items and sales-tax group items) and Vat codes.

6. At this point, you should be able to transfer the remaining lists and the transactions using the "Transfer Strategies" document in the Help section of the program. After transferring vendors, you will need to manually add the Vat agency information to the Vat vendor.