would you like to have a free QuickBooks Online account that you could use just for this course
well if that's the case then stick around I'm going to show you how you can create your own
plus version free for 30-days QuickBooks Online account that you can use for this course if you
have any questions about this topic you can leave them in the comment section below and I'll do my
best to help you and of course if you feel the video helped you I hope you will click like and
don't forget to subscribe to get updates on new videos that come out all the time I would like
you to have a free QuickBooks Online account that you could devote exclusively to the use
of this course so I did my best to give you two options that would enable you to do that
now the prior video is an older video that I use to help all my students in any of my quickbooks
online courses and it shows you how you can sign up permanently for free if you use the accountants
edition however i would like to make the rest of this course with the Plus version of QuickBooks
Online so that you can see two examples that we will work through together the first example will
be a job done from the regular main menu choices that are absolutely the same in the accountants
edition and the Plus version that I show here but then the second version or the second project that
we go through I would like to do the very same things but open those very same windows from the
projects tab in the projects window so you see how that would work as well then of course at
the end I'll give you your own little project and you'll work at it for self-practice where
I'll give you the answers and help you find and fix your mistakes along the way this way you can
choose if you'd like to open the windows from the regular menus or open from the project window and
I will be reminding you during the course that both ways open and use the same windows and same
reports that contractors need so how do we set up for the plus version well first you must have
an email address that you have never used before with any QuickBooks Online prot product and the
example company where the name that you will type in is conning the contractor and once we log in
and set up our account we will put in this video the minimum information for setup now the link is
here in the description of the text of this video and be aware the link may change and you may have
to google it in order to find exactly where to sign up for your free 30-day trial version now
I have it here in my notepad and I'm going to copy it to the address of the browser so if I
bring this down here you can see I'm pasting this in the browser address and you could type it in
but again the link is in the description now why is it only showing by now you must go right here
right here where it says free 30-day trial version and click on when you click on the colors change
and things change on the screen and then you can go to the plus version and double click try it
free now when you try it free you have to use a username and password for a well the username is
an email address that you have never associated with QuickBooks Online an email address you never
use before will be your user ID and of course you want to confirm the email and you could put in a
mobile number to associate with your account so that if you forget your password they can
send you a text and then of course you will have to decide on a username and password that will
suit you and fulfill the standards here so I'm going to put in the password that I'm using I
think I actually have to add a special character there we go because it's not going to take the
password that I put and then I'm going to click sign up with email and that's all you have to do
make sure you click continue with trial and as soon as you do that QuickBooks Online is
creating a brand new blank company file for you to use for this course now the name is
Connie the contractor okay and then don't click anything else just click Next remember we're
putting in the minimum information don't click any of these because these will be explained in
the very next video that you will see so just click Next ok now you should also click owner
so QuickBooks Online knows that you should have full access to everything without a problem and
you're approaching this course from the point of view of the owner and then at the bottom click
no I do it all myself because we are learning how to do everything ourselves then there's a
green button at the bottom and you can click where it says all set and if you wait a moment
congratulations QuickBooks Online has created a blank brand-new QuickBooks Online account you can
just click this X you don't have to click let's go and as you can see the left panel is exactly
as what it was described in the previous video now the last thing I suggest is that you bookmark
this and make it your favorites so you can come back to it quickly I happen to be using Firefox
bookmark bookmark this page and you can call it QuickBooks - Connie so that you can come right
back to it if you want to resume your studies and the last final piece of advice is please make sure
that you write down your password put it in a notepad that you can copy and paste every time
so that you can get back in to the account that you just created now if you're using the Plus
version everything should match the screen and you should be able to follow step by step you