QuickBooks Digital Pen - Coming Soon?
I recently read an article on the Intuit Labs Website (Intuit make QuickBooks, one of the world’s leading accounting packages for small & medium businesses) about a new Digital Pen system they are working on to integrate into their QuickBase database systems.
The video in the file shows a Dr. Gang Wang showing how a form can be digitally converted and then printed from the QuickBase Digital Pen system to work with an Anoto based digital pen. The resulting form can be completed with the digital pen then viewed back inside the QuickBase database as an image (with original handwriting) and the text then converted and merged into the correct database fields. It appears to just work with docking cradle, not via Bluetooth & mobile phone.
Dr. Wang is currently looking for companies to do some testing with them in integrating into QuickBase – once that is mastered, how long until we start to see a QuickPen with an integration option to QuickBooks?
I think that this is a great development and shows that with seriously large businesses such as Intuit starting to dabble in the digital pen business, then digital pens have really started to reach the mainstream business mind.
Companies like Intuit should be congratulated for entering into this space as it will only bring more awareness to the power of the Anoto based digital pen.
Obviously here I should point out that for many businesses looking for a QuickBooks & Digital Pen integration, we already have a way to get handwritten form data into Quickbooks. Both simPRO Lite and simPRO Enterprise fully integrate with QuickBooks – so using an invoice form in the field with a simPRO Mobile Digital Pen, it can send immediately to simPRO to update the records of the job and then push out into QuickBooks. A simple, ready to go Digital Pen to QuickBooks solution – available right now.
Tags: digital pen & paper, Digital Pens, Intuit, Quickbooks
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Interesting – as an accountant I think that would be a great tool to use for busineses of any size that I deal with.
Any ideas on when it might be released?
Is this real? I need that for my new plumbing company for the lads. But we will use sage for this is there a sage pen?
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Hi JDW – yes it would be a great tool for any kind of business that needs to invoice from the road. If any of your clients are contractors or service companies (like electricians, plumbers, heating engineers etc) then we can do this already with a direct link to our simPRO software from the digital pen and into QuickBooks.
Spencer – As above, we have a solution that is ready to go for your business type whether you have 2 staff or 2000. Yes, we link that from the digital pen into Sage as well.
Give us a call to discuss.
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