Quickbook point of sale software is a specific Quickbooks product designed for use by retail businesses to manage their business and keep track of sales and inventory. It interacts with the sales cash register giving businesses better control of what happens within their retail location. This Quickbooks product offers complete financial reporting functionality. Quickbooks has been an industry leader in accounting software and offers a highly competitive product to the POS industry.
Quickbooks POS software includes 3 levels of product:
- Basic 4.0
- Ring up sales
- Inventory module
- CRM tools
- Run meaningful business reports
- Process and authorize credit cards and debit cards with single entry
- Pro 4.0
- All features in Basic 4.0
- More sophisticated inventory management features
- Color/size inventory grid
- Multiple vendor and UPC codes per item
- Work order tracking
- And much more
- Pro Multi-Store 4.0
- All features from Basic and Pro 4.0, but with the capability of managing up to 10 stores from a single office
Quickbooks also offers merchant services which can save both time and money on financial transactions. Optional card reader eliminates the need for a standalone terminal for credit card processing.
Some of the factors to be considered when purchasing software to manage your point of sale location include:
- Sales agent skills
- Current integration levels of inventory
- Speed to integrate with other business systems
- Support and trouble shooting provided
- System resources: Not usually an issue, but sometimes small business environments are on over-taxed hardware already.