Course curriculum

  • 1

    Setup of QuickBooks Online

    • Chart of Accounts

    • Tracking Funds in the Trust Account.

    • Classes, Customers, Vendors, Divisions

    • Products and Services

  • 2

    Recording Trust Account Income

    • Establishing a Manager Reserve in the Trust Account

    • Advanced Booking Deposits(Stripe)

    • Booking Details -Payout After Check-In (Airbnb)

    • Booking Details-Advance Payment Bookings (Stripe)

    • Tips for Faster Entry of Booking Data

    • Creation of Property Ledgers in QuickBooks Online

  • 3

    Recording Expenses That Are Billable To The Owners

    • Billable Expenses (Operations Bank or Credit Card)

    • Billable Expenses Paid from the Trust Account

  • 4

    Allocating Funds to the Owners and Manager

    • Introduction / Using Journal Entries

    • Creating Invoices to the Owners for Billable Expenses

    • Creating a Bill to Deduct the Manager Commission

    • Creating a Bill to Deduct Cleaning Fees

    • Creating a Bill to Deduct Billable Expenses

    • Bills to Record Owner Payouts and Review of Ledgers

    • Invoices to Record Manager Commission/Cleaning Fees

    • Payment of Owner Invoices

    • Payment of Manager Bills

  • 5

    Creation of Owner Statements in QuickBooks Online

    • Making Sure the Trust Account/All Reports Are Balanced

    • Creation of the Owner Statements as Custom Reports

  • 6

    Recording the Disbursement of the Trust Account Funds

    • Funds to Operations, Paying Owners, Remitting Tax

  • 7

    Bonus Lessons

    • Handling Owner Reserve Funds

Who should take this course

  • Short-term rental managers that want to do their own bookkeeping but need help with the setup and use of QuickBooks Online

  • Anyone looking for instruction on how the owner and manager money should flow through the proper chart of accounts categories in QuickBooks Online

  • Someone that wants to see the individual transactions for a short-term rental management company being entered, not just receive general information on how trust accounting works

Who should not take this course

  • Those seeking to do trust accounting with two QuickBooks Online subscriptions

  • Those using QuickBooks Desktop

  • Someone whose main focus is learning how to automate the entry of large amounts of booking data

  • Someone that is focused on learning how to integrate a specific third party software with QuickBooks Online (i.e. OwnerRez, Bnbtally, Streamline, Zapier)

  • Please note that this course was recorded in 2020 and the current layout of QuickBooks may not match the images used in the course material.

Instructor

Ryan Gallagher