We get a lot of request to interface cash registers to quick books. Most people decide against this after finding out the cost of the software and set up. A polling package and QB interface option have to be used. Polling software has other options as well, which may make the cost worthwhile, so please don’t think I’m saying polling software is a waste of money just the extra set-up and time involved with the Quick Books Interface.
Having said that though I do think interfacing to Quick Books to Cash Registers is a waste of time. Maybe there are cases were the results are worth the results. However what we see most often is that people have 5 to 20 departments, maybe some tax rates, discounts etc. that they wish to automate the entry of into Quick Books. Here is where the waste of time comes into play. The register must first be polled, then a file is created and exported from the Polling Software, then imported into Quick Books and confirmed. After doing all of this steps you could have done journal entries and been done with it.
Where is makes sense for the interface is if you plan to keep track of inventory in Quick Books. So if you have 25 or more items to inventory in Quick Books that you must enter the sales from the cash register the interface makes a great amount of sense.
So think hard about the amount of work to do to accomplish the result you want before moving forward with a Quick Books Interface.
TCRG
