With QuickBooks, you can make the task of sending collection letters from your business as easy and painless as possible. After all, business owners like sending collection letters just about as much as people like receiving them. QuickBooks can seamlessly integrate your QuickBooks data to create collection letters in Microsoft Word. You can also use the QuickBooks business letter templates to speed up the process of writing business letters. To have QuickBooks help you write a letter, choose Company, Write Letters. Then click the option button for the type of letter you want to create or edit and click Next.

If you're creating a collection letter, you can specify which customers and jobs you want QuickBooks to search for money owed to you. You can tell QuickBooks whether you want to create a separate letter for each customer who owes you money or each job on which you're owed money. You can also specify the limit for how overdue an invoice must be to warrant a collection letter. After you set the parameters and click Next, QuickBooks searches for overdue invoices that fit your criteria.

If you're creating a type of letter other than a collection letter, QuickBooks offers many choices based on whether you're sending the letter to a customer, a vendor, an employee, or someone else. For example, you can create credit approval, credit denial, or credit request letters. You can also create faxes and bounced check letters, just to name a few.

After you specify the information about the type of letter you want to create, QuickBooks asks you a few questions about how you want to sign the letter. It then creates the letter and displays it in Microsoft Word so that you can edit the letter as necessary and then print or save it.