A couple of weeks ago our church accountant emailed me with an error message she was receiving from Quickbooks.  As I investigated the error, I learned another valuable lesson for every church using Quickbooks or another similar accounting system.

As with most software programs, there are always newer versions and updates that are available for purchase.  If you use Peachtree or Quickbooks, you’ve already noticed the versions change every year.  However, you are not required to buy new versions each year to continue to use their programs.  While I knew that I was taken by surprise when I found out that our accountant thought she had received something from Quickbooks indicating that we had to pay for a payroll update.  With a few simple clicks, the update was downloading for free.  Here is what we did…