(1) I do, but I there’s still tons that I don’t know. We bought it with the store, and sometimes I’m totally confused. I’ll try to help if I can, but can’t promise anything. I think I know just enough to make a sale and put inventory in. Reports are a total mystery.

(2) Heh. I’ve been using QB for POS for years now, but don’t have the actual POS component of the software. I’m trying to figure out which reports will (help me?) calculate sell-through, turn around times, etc. I’m also curious whether anyone who has the POS component could comment on what it can do that regular QB Pro can’t.

(3) If *I* can help you, let me know! We may be an example of the blind leading the blind, but at least we’ll have company?

(4) Are you referring to QB POS? There is the financial software and they also have a separate POS Program (http://quickbooks.intuit.com/point-of-sale-systems/)? If you are talking about the POS system I used it for 7 years and am quite well versed in it and would be happy to help in any way. There are limitations to it but there are also some great work arounds and tricks for being able to maximize inventory control.

(5) Not the POS program, just plain old Quickbooks Pro. We’ve been using it for our “POS” (using it to track inventory, do sales receipts/returns, etc.) and have been very satisfied with it so far.

Now I’m wondering how to get it to tell me the stats I need to calculate sell-through and all the other numbery bits needed to implement your inventory control advice.

(6) Also, we have the non-subscription form of QB and I’d very much like to stick with that rather than the online subscription version.

(7) Quickbooks financial is not suitable for POS and tracking inventory. You really need to get their POS (or another retail POS program) to be able to measure what you are seeking to do. QB Pro is VERY limited and really does best as a back-end business tracking- money coming in and money going out…

(8) We’ll look into a separate POS system but in the meantime it’d be nice to know how to get these numbers out of our accounting software. If anyone knows how to do so, I’m all ears.

(9) We use the QB POS, but Sage Peachtree for accounting, so have not integrated them — quite happy with the POS, though

(10) Do you have the desktop or online version?

(11) Desktop

(12) It’s a flat fee, yeah? Not a subscription?

(13) yup — you get free ‘help’ for a year, and then have to pay for that, but after one year almost all my questions and problems were worked out, and when I DID have a problem, I called and they gave a month support to answer the questions I had and now nothing more. We’ve had it since 2012

(14) we have QB Pro too. If you have very descriptive SKUs and are meticulous with your sales receipts, you can use the built-in sales reports to track how various SKUs do. We export the reports to Excel and then have to monkey around a bit to get the numbers we want. Sorry I’m not being more specific, I’m away from the software right now. It’s not as good as having a true point of sale system, but it allows us to measure margin and turnaround.

(15) that’s *exactly* what I need! Are you up for further consult sometime?

(16) A MATCH!

(17) I’ll get back to you when I have QB in front of me. It’s clunky but you can make it work, and I just can’t spring for a true POS right now.

(18) I use QB too and am believing I need to upgrade to a version with more capability.

(19) You have QB POS and they are talking about QB Pro (financial). You could be a good advocate for getting a POS system!

(20) it’s really confusing — our version of QB POS is also a pro version!

(21) There is a Pro POS version but QB financial is VERY different from their POS software

(22) Yup — I’m sure!