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Liese S. - Feb 22, 2013 9:50:32 am PST #1098 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ooh.

Glad to hear it, ND. I put it on the back burner because of all the other tech expenses that came up, but since donors ended up covering all that, I may put this back on simmer. I think it would be really helpful to me both in the initial catchup and the long term workflow. Does it integrate with Expensify as well as Intuit, do you know?


NoiseDesign - Feb 22, 2013 9:53:24 am PST #1099 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

In my workflow I'm not trying to do any direct integration. It's being used as a double check and document archive. K downloads all of the statements from the banks directly into Quicken and then will use the reports from Neat to reconcile those statements and make sure that things are assigned to correct categories.

There is an option to export data in quicken format, but we have not played with it yet.


Liese S. - Feb 22, 2013 9:57:34 am PST #1100 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Okay, gotcha. That's probably close to what my workflow would be. It would replace the part of the process where I manually enter the data into Quickbooks from the paper receipts. I would still download and reconcile the bank statements.

I'm getting ready to do my first major remote deposit to my local bank, the last step in the migration away from the Big Bank. So far so good.


Stephanie - Mar 11, 2013 2:01:47 pm PDT #1101 of 1416
Trust my rage

I love being a liberal except this one day per year.

Signed, Just got my tax bill


NoiseDesign - Mar 11, 2013 3:57:41 pm PDT #1102 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

Yeah. I feel your pain.


Java cat - Apr 01, 2013 11:08:37 am PDT #1103 of 1416
Not javachik

This is where there are people for hire, right? I'm thinking about having someone do some quick-and-dirty Photoshop stuff for me because I don't know how to and don't really want to learn it. What would it cost to send someone a bunch of photos of my back yard and have that person paste various shots of different kinds of building materials shopped as retaining walls in various locations? I'd take the photo with string or whatever outlining the retaining wall area, and could send either photos of the materials I'm interested in seeing or references. If they look like a middle schooler cut and pasted them with scissors and glue, that's totally fine. I knew that I couldn't visualize construction things and now that I have two retaining walls where it is now obvious one would have been fine if I'd only been able to visualize it first, I'd like to try photoshop first for the rest of the hardscaping.


EpicTangent - Apr 01, 2013 12:28:36 pm PDT #1104 of 1416
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Strix's friend 'shopped my graduation photos (50% fewer chins!) for about a buck a minute (30 minutes labor, 2 photos, the easy one 10 min, the trickier one 20). But I think that must have been the friend-of-a-friend rate. Everyone else I checked with was WAY pricier, seems like nobody would even boot up their computer for less than 150-200ish.

eta: But that was very professional work. Maybe someone around here might have better help for quick 'n' dirty. Ginger was kind enough to take a pass at my photos first, but my linebacker neck defeated her, so I had to go pro.


Java cat - Apr 04, 2013 9:39:17 pm PDT #1105 of 1416
Not javachik

Good to know, thanks.


NoiseDesign - Apr 17, 2013 2:33:44 pm PDT #1106 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

Today is just a day for things being a pain.

I get it, my business is not run of the mill, but still, it shouldn't be this hard to maintain my general liability insurance. It seems that every couple of years whoever is my current underwriter decides that they really don't understand what my company does and they decide to not renew the policy. Now keep in mind, that I always pay on time and have never had a single claim. I'm in the midst of that right now, my current coverage won't be renewed next month and my agent is working on new underwriting and I'm in the middle of answering a seemingly endless list of questions about the business. I know it has to be done, and I am all for having full insurance coverage, but I'm just so tired of this end of the business. I have two art degrees and not an MBA for a reason!

Okay, done now.


Laura - Apr 17, 2013 3:56:09 pm PDT #1107 of 1416
Our wings are not tired.

I hear you, ND. I've never had a claim in 25 years yet I have to carry a million dollar policy as a condition of my lease. Either my agent loses his permission to sell the company and has to switch me to something else, or they drop Florida, or one of another reason that I have to change all the time.

Also, all insurance companies are Evil and I resent having to use them for anything.