welcome to our first video in the QuickBooks Online series introduction to QuickBooks Online
in this video we will be setting up a company in an online account for QuickBooks Online what
will you get from this course well you will get the full foundation of QuickBooks Online
and that means that you will learn everything that most companies need after this you should
be able to teach yourself industry specific topics and after this you should also be able
to teach yourself advanced topics and you can do both of those things by watching the desktop
version video the equivalent video of any topic but watching the desktop version the video that
was made specifically for the desktop version that's because past a certain point QuickBooks
Online and QuickBooks desktop are basically the same what will you do in this course well we're
going to create a company account and use the trial version of QuickBooks Online which gives
us 30 days free to master the rest of the course if you already used your 30 day trial before this
course you can contact me through this website the website that you're watching this video from
and I will set you up with a 30 day account for free if necessary you must do the topics in order
you must complete each task from one video before starting the next each consecutive video assumes
that you have entered the data from the previous video if not then your numbers will be different
when starting the next video please note if you want to follow along with a particular video and
you don't want to do the whole course from the beginning you can contact me mark again through
the website that you're watching this video through and I will set you up in an account
for the numbers prepared for the video and all you have to do is give me a small ten dollar fee
that means if there are ten videos in the series and you only want to follow along with number six
let me know and I'll set up an online account with all the numbers that begin with video number six
let's create a trial version account together step by step here's the web address and you can pause
the video so you can type this web address into your browser you will have to use your own email
address to respond to the email that comes please put everything in exactly as you see use the
company name from the video not your company name the only thing that will be specific to you is
your email address now of course the advertisement you see will be different than what's on my screen
because we're doing this on a different day and the advertisement rotates all you have to do is
click free trial and when you come to this page click free trial and change it from buy now make
sure it's green three free 30-day trial and the one we'll be using will be the online plus because
we want to make sure it has all the features we could possibly need try it for free is what you
click now you come to this form that you will fill out now here's where you will put your own email
address and of course I'm doing this on behalf of Vonda the video vixen who is our sample company
pace confirm the email paste okay I'm going to forget putting my number you can put your number
if you want to now of course you have to put a password that's acceptable so I don't mind you
seeing the sample password okay but I think you would have to add an exclamation point in order
to follow the rules of the password you can put your own password if you want to as long as you
haven't written down somewhere and you can easily access it to get back in so that means that I have
to add this exclamation point to the password okay now we will click continue with trial and
it's setting up your company and in a moment you will see that you are logged in to your 30-day
free trial for QuickBooks Online now what is your business cold type in Vonda the loops the video
vixen how long have you been in business well we can put less than one year I think it's safe
we are not importing the QuickBooks data that's a different video click Next now these are all
options that we can switch on or off later in a place called account settings which is the same
as the Preferences window in the desktop version so we'll leave this alone for now and we'll click
all set and here we are in the company dashboard the first place that you come to when QuickBooks
creates your account in the company dashboard and in the video that follows we will learn how to
navigate around your quickbooks online account but you can see the dashboard gives you a summary of
the general operation and of course we're starting off with 0 because we haven't done anything yet