Quickbooks

QuickBooks POS comes with a lot of features to help you set up a successful POS solution for your business. You’re able to track inventory, set up coupons and discounts, and even manage customers right from the interface.

Reporting features come standard and if you’ve used a POS system before you’ll be right at home.

Inventory tracking

Gain insights on what people are buying and what’s taking up space. You’ll also be able to understand how discounts are affecting your bottom line, what the optimal sale price is, and the best product mix for your business.

Sync with QuickBooks

This should come as no surprise. You’re able to sync deeply with your QuickBooks account to get an entire picture of your business’ overall health. It transfers your sales over and itemizes them by transaction and the reporting gives you a clear understanding of your profit and loss.

Loyalty Program

When a customer shops with you for the first time, you’re able to capture their information and store it in the built-in CRM. From there, you can create a loyalty program that offers then discounts in real time, print promotions on their receipt, and track what’s working and what’s not.

Hardware from QuickBooks isn’t required to use QuickBooks POS. All you need is a Windows computer that meets the minimum specifications.

You can search for items by hand and key in cards using your keyboard. With that being said, it’s a good idea to buy a few pieces because they’ll save you time and money in the end.

The QuickBooks POS system comes with a few essential add-ons to make it easier to run your business. Many of the add-ons are products from QuickBooks.

Gift Cards

Though gift cards are available as part of the Pro plan and above, they still have special pricing based on transaction volume. You’re able to create and issue custom physical gift cards in various denominations with your logo.

Time tracking

QuickBook has a product named Tsheets you can integrate with your POS system to track employee time. You’re able to manage employee schedules, set overtime rates and limits, and access insightful reports about performance.

Shopify

Through third party apps, you’re able to connect your Shopify store with your QuickBooks POS system. Share customer data, inventory, and sales information between the two applications to cut down on manual data entry.

QuickBooks POS is straightforward software. After you install it on your desktop, it’s best to play with it for a few minutes to hours. After that, you’ll have an understanding of where everything goes and the best way to access it.

That doesn’t mean there are no difficult aspects. Some of the advanced features require a considerable amount of learning before you can use them properly.