Can Quicken or Quickbooks be used with barcode?
The short answer is yes. There is no built-in barcode ability in ether product, but you can do it with a little work. The way you do it is similar to the answer above regarding using barcode with Access, Excel, or Clipper. You use a keyboard wedge barcode reader to scan the data in as if it were typed. If you have a part number you are deducting from inventory, you make sure that the cursor is in the part number box in Quickbooks, then scan the barcode. If you want to scan a series of barcodes and do a batch update at the end of the day, you could write a VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) program in Excel to store the data in a complete record form. At the end of the day, you use Excel to generate a csv or txt file and use that, with the import feature of Quickbooks, to update the master record. If you try this, be sure to make a back-up of your master record. If you don’t import correctly, you can overwrite your data. Also, Quickbooks has begun marketing a product that includes barc
