Point of Sale 7.0 User's Guide
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Point of Sale Version 7.0 User’s Guide Comprehensive, step-by-step guide to features and tasks Copyright and Trademarks © 2007 Intuit Inc. All rights reserved. Intuit, the Intuit logo, QuickBooks, Quicken, TurboTax, Lacerte, ProSeries, EasyStep and QuickZoom among others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. or one of its subsidiaries. Simple Start, Intuit Eclipse and Innovative Merchant Solutions, among others, are trademarks and/or service marks of Intuit Inc. Other parties’ marks are the property of their respective owners. Contains images © Microsoft Corporation. Contains images and RoboHelp © 2005 eHelp Corporation. Contains Sybase Central Copyrighted © 1989-2005, Sybase Inc. with portions Copyrighted 2002, iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. The Software contains Adobe® Flash® Player software by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Copyright ©1995-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved. Adobe and Flash are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. The software contains components from Anders Melander. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://wwww.openssl.org/). Contents Section I: Point of Sale Basics . 1 Chapter 1 Point of Sale Overview . 3 Purpose of This Guide . 4 What POS Does for Your Business . 5 Installation and Setup . 7 Hardware Setup Wizard . 15 Working with Company Data Files . 15 Help and Learning Tools . 18 Chapter 2 Point of Sale Fundamentals . 25 Overview . 26 Lists and Forms . 31 Locating Records or Documents . 31 Working with History Documents . 34 Temporarily Holding Documents . 37 Chapter 3 General Printing Information . 39 Printing in Point of Sale . 40 Printing Records or Documents . 42 Printing Tags and Labels . 43 Importing Print Templates . 51 Chapter 4 Employees . 53 Employees Overview . 54 Working with Employee Records . 55 Tracking Employee Commissions (Pro) . 60 Employee Time Clock (Pro) . 61 Chapter 5 Data and Program Security . 65 Why is Security Important? . 66 Requiring Employee Logins . 68 Working with Security Groups . 71 Protecting Your Data . 74 QuickBooks Point of Sale iii Contents Section II: Data Entry . 83 Chapter 6 Data Entry Basics . 85 Data Entry Basics . 86 Listing Items on Documents . 91 Chapter 7 Lists, Forms and Filters . 99 Working with Lists and Forms . 100 Using Filters in Lists and Reports . 106 Chapter 8 Importing and Exporting Data . 117 Import/Export Overview . 118 Importing Data from QuickBooks Financial Software . 118 Importing Data from a Spreadsheet or Text File . 124 Exporting Data . 126 Section III: Inventory . 133 Chapter 9 Inventory Overview . 135 Inventory Overview . 136 Using Inventory Reminders . 142 Viewing Item History . 146 Inventory Ratings and Trends . 147 Custom Inventory Fields (Pro) . 148 Serial Number Tracking (Pro) . 149 Printing Your Item List and Tags . 151 Inventory Reports . 152 Chapter 10 Merchandise Departments . 153 Working with Departments . 154 Printing your Department List . 160 Chapter 11 Item Basics . 161 Item Overview . 162 Adding Inventory Items . 164 Using Service and Non-Inventory Items . 173 Using Special Order Items (Pro) . 174 Working with Existing Items . 175 iv QuickBooks Point of Sale Contents Chapter 12 Item Quantities, Cost and Price(s) . 181 Tracking Item Quantities . 182 Handling Item Cost and Price . 189 Price Manager . 196 Chapter 13 Item Styles, Assemblies, and Groups (Pro) . 211 Working with Item Styles . 212 Item Assemblies and Groups . 222 Chapter 14 Inventory Counts and Adjustments . 231 Conducting Physical Inventory Counts . 232 Adjusting Item Costs and Quantities . 243 Section IV: Vendors and Purchasing. 251 Chapter 15 Vendors . 253 Working with Vendors . 254 Printing/Exporting your Vendor List . 262 Using Multiple Vendors for an Item (Pro) . 263 Chapter 16 Purchasing Merchandise . 265 Purchase Order Overview . 266 Working with Purchase Orders . 267 Maintaining Purchase Orders . 273 Printing Purchase Orders . ..