Gentle Frog – All Courses

Gentle Frog – All Courses brings together Rachel Barnett’s QuickBooks Online training, from first-time setup to advanced features and troubleshooting. The bundle contains more than 350 lessons and approximately 25+ hours of video.

The courses cover day-to-day bookkeeping alongside diagnostic reviews, cleanup projects, PayPal transactions, payroll and reviewing your own books. Practice files and a pricing calculator add hands-on material for working through bookkeeping scenarios.

QuickBooks Online skills covered

• Navigate QuickBooks Online confidently with comprehensive beginner-focused lessons
• Master advanced QuickBooks features including inventory, projects, and automation
• Perform professional diagnostic reviews and cleanups on messy client files
• Handle PayPal bookkeeping including transaction import, fees, and reconciliation
• Manage payroll in QuickBooks Online from setup through tax reporting
• Review your own books effectively to catch errors before they compound

The courses in the QuickBooks Online bundle

The eight courses progress from basic navigation and daily transactions to advanced tools, cleanup work and specialist bookkeeping topics.

Getting Started With QuickBooks Online – The Basics

Across 73 lessons, the beginner course walks through setting up and navigating QuickBooks Online. It also covers sales, expenses, banking and reporting, giving new users a foundation for managing everyday books.

QuickBooks Online – Advanced Topics

The 70 advanced lessons explore reporting and features for organizing and automating bookkeeping work. Topics include recurring transactions, custom fields, inventory management and project tracking.

Clean Up Course: Do It With Me

This 34-lesson course lets you follow Rachel through a cleanup using the same downloadable files. Work through the steps of finding problems, correcting mistakes and organizing books using realistic data scenarios.

Clean Up Course – QuickBooks Online

In 54 lessons, Rachel demonstrates a cleanup of a fictional QuickBooks file containing mistakes created for teaching. The walkthrough addresses bank and credit card issues, accounts receivable, accounts payable and equity, explaining both the corrections and why they matter.

The training uses realistic problems such as reconciliation errors, duplicate entries and transactions assigned to the wrong category.

Diagnostic Review – QuickBooks Online

The 40-lesson diagnostic course shows how to review a messy fictional file and the official QuickBooks test drive company. It also includes mock client calls and a pricing calculator to help scope and price cleanup projects.

PayPal Bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online

This 42-lesson course covers PayPal setup, transaction imports and account reconciliation in QuickBooks Online. It also addresses fees, refunds and transfers between accounts.

Gentle Frog Payroll Course

The 18 payroll lessons cover setting up payroll in QuickBooks Online, paying employees, tracking taxes and running payroll reports.

Review Your QuickBooks

In 17 lessons, learn to examine your own bookkeeping for errors. The course covers the Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Report, as well as reviewing receipts and open items.

Who the bundle is for

The training is suited to small business owners managing their own books, aspiring and working bookkeepers, accountants expanding their QuickBooks Online skills, virtual assistants adding bookkeeping services, and career changers entering bookkeeping.

Practice files and course materials

The bundle includes videos, PDFs, documents and spreadsheets, with downloadable practice files for the cleanup exercises and a pricing calculator for client work. The diagnostic review and cleanup courses provide over nine hours of training across multiple courses.

About Rachel Barnett

Rachel Barnett is the founder of Gentle Frog and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor with more than 15 years of bookkeeping experience. She owned and operated Primarily Bookkeeping, a Seattle-area firm, for six years before selling it in 2018.

In 2024, Insightful Accountant named her its Top QuickBooks Author/Educator ProAdvisor. Her training draws on her experience serving small business clients and teaching bookkeeping professionals.

Financial information

Bookkeeping and payroll decisions can carry financial and tax risks.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need QuickBooks experience to start?

No prior QuickBooks experience is required. The beginner course starts with setup and navigation before moving into everyday bookkeeping tasks.

Does the bundle cover QuickBooks Online or desktop software?

The courses focus on QuickBooks Online, the cloud-based version of QuickBooks.

What practice materials are included?

The bundle includes downloadable practice files for following the cleanup training and a pricing calculator for client projects. Materials include videos, PDFs, documents and spreadsheets.

Can the courses help me prepare for bookkeeping client work?

The diagnostic review and cleanup courses cover workflows for examining and correcting client files. They also include mock client calls and a calculator for scoping and pricing cleanup projects.

How much video training is in the bundle?

The bundle contains more than 350 lessons and approximately 25+ hours of video. Diagnostic review and cleanup training accounts for over nine hours across multiple courses.