Quickbooks Enterprise and the confusion Advanced Inventory creates with accounting.

Well, I guess we're not in Kansas anymore.  QB has grown up and is growing up.  It treats certain accounting methods now like a more grown up and sophisticated ERP accounting system.

Let's take Advanced Inventory for example.  Now, with Advanced Inventory added to QB Enterprise we can separate the functions of receiving the inventory on a PO and the actual receiving of the bill for the inventory from the vendor.

How often do you get the inventory receipt and the bill from the vendor at the same time?  Hardly ever, unless your paying by credit card.

How to use Quick Books Pro, Premier, Enterprise for over the counter sales.

You can use Estimates, Order, and Invoices for various combinations of order and invoice workflow.  If your not quite ready for full blown Intuit Point of Sale but want to have a counter sales operation here is what you can do.

Click Create Sales Receipts, which is just above Receive Payments on your Home Page workflow diagram.

Use Create Sales Receipts to quickly enter counter sales for check, cash, and credit card payment. If you have Merchant Services you can swipe the credit card and enter the cvv code.

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