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Point of Sale Quickbooks is the Solution With All the Tools

December 29, 2009 By: azjogger Category: Financial

By Mike Smith Faraone

With any product that you purchase, it’s nice to find something that can do not only what you expect it to do but much more. Point of Sale Quickbooks is a product like that. It can handle a host of different business management functions on top of simply being an excellent option for your point of sale transactions. This software can help your business to work efficiently and provide seamless transactions for customers and vendors alike. Everything is done in real time so you can generate reports on exactly how the business is doing any time of day. If you need something that can do this, help you to manage your employees and treat your customers with care, this is the answer.

Just as advertised, Point of Sale Quickbooks can handle the transactions at the checkout counter. It doesn’t matter if these are cash transactions, credit card or debit card; this can handle them all. It can also manage the creation of gift cards, and the redemption of gift cards. The most important thing to any business is the customer base, and this will help you to manage your client information so that you can have a reward program or loyalty programs and have the client’s information readily available.

Quickbooks reads barcodes

Point of Sale Quickbooks reads barcodes that can be set up to handle items that are on sale very easily. You can take photographs of any item that you have an inventory so that your employees can view the item on their screen and make sure that the customer has the correct item. This means better service for your customers as you won’t have employees confused about the identity of an item for sale.

If you have a business that handles retail sales, then you will have employees. This can help you by tracking employee hours and calculating employee commissions. As you can imagine, when it comes time to do payroll most of the work has already been completed. Your software system has been tracking everything throughout the pay period.

You can manage inventory

A good point of sale software system will also help you manage your inventory. Whether an item is being sold or if it is being returned, inventory levels are updated immediately. Point of Sale Quickbooks can handle purchase orders and even print price tags. It can handle everything that you need to have happen at your retail location.

If you plan to use other Quickbooks software, this will integrate with Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions to help you manage your growing business. As you expand, this can handle up to 20 separate retail locations so you know you have a product that can stay with you over the long run.

Its a versatile system

When you need a versatile and robust system to handle the management of employees, inventory and handle transactions at the point of sale, Point of Sale Quickbooks can provide the necessary solution. With customized reports it can let you know what is going on at any time and it has the ability to easily grow with your business.

AZ State Training Grants on Temporary Hold

August 12, 2009 By: azjogger Category: Financial, Training

By John Riley

MPj04387460000[1] Up grading personnel skills should be among the top priorities of business managers if companies are to weather the significant structural and economic changes brought about by the near financial collapse. Intellectual skills have always been the ‘coin of the relm’ but never as important as they are today.
And the training should start now. But with the squeeze on budgets over the past few months, money may not be available now. However, a number of states provide state training grants to help companies deal with this need.
Arizona has one of the better programs, but facing over a $ 2 billion debt, it is on hold. Nevertheless, they are still accepting requests which will be held on a first come, first serve basis, for when money is again available.
The maximum grant available  is $1.5 million. That is based on a two-part submission: one grant to train new employees for a new position and another grant to train incumbent employees.  A company can submit one or both requests depending on how the grant is to be used.
The program is very flexible.  Within reason, any job title can qualify for training. When a grant is received, the company has up to two years to complete the training. Once a grant is completed, the company may reapply for another grant.
If personnel to be trained are new employees for newly created positions, the State will reimburse up to 75% of the training costs. For incumbent employees the reimbursement rate is up to 50%.
For an employer with 100 or more employees in an urban area, the grant can range from $2,000 to $5,000 per employee.
For an employer with less than 100 employees, the range is from $5,000 to $8,000 per employee.
Temporary or contract employees cannot be trained under this grant program.
Employers interested in learning more details about the program or wanting to intiate a grant request can call John at 480-286-2300.