QBO: Consignment Sales Within QuickBooks Online

You can track consignment sales made, how much you have paid out to consignors, and see a report of these figures. There are five basic steps to this procedure Set up your consignors as vendors/suppliers and classes Create separate income accounts for tracking the consignment sales Set up the consignment item and tie to the consignment income Read More …

OS X Automatic Volume Mount

Here are two very simple solutions made possible by automation tools baked right in Mac OS X: AppleScript & Automator. AppleScript You can use AppleScript to make a a very simple app that will mount your shares without opening any new Finder windows. Open AppleScript Editor and put in this script: tell application “Finder” mount Read More …

Enable Spotlight on Network Volume

Spotlight doesn’t automatically index network volumes. To configure spotlight to index network volumes, use the mdutil command followed by an arbitrary path, with the -i option and then the on parameter. For example, for a volume called Galvatron, you would enable indexing using the following command: mdutil /Volumes/Galvatron -i on To monitor the status of Read More …