In this article, I’ll be talking about your lists: customer, vendors, employee, items, and other things you’ll find in the List menu. But if you feel like tapping into your inner geek.
Just a warning, this method may not be for you. iif (Intuit Interchange Format) text files you can format your information in a way that QuickBooks can understand it. You can always enter all of this information through the QuickBooks menus, but if you’ve been running your business for a while, you probably have all of this information in other files that you’d like to pack up and import into QuickBooks.
You may also have historical transactions you need to enter. You need to set up your list of customers, vendors, items (what you sell and buy), and employees. When you first start with QuickBooks, there’s a lot of data to enter.