I’ve been a QuickBooks consultant since 1996 and this is the first time I’ve been really excited about a new version of Point of Sale. My clients have been asking for more customer management tools for years, and Intuit has responded with a host of new features in QuickBooks Point of Sale 9.0. My personal favorite – email marketing integration with Constant Contact. I absolutely love it and I think you will too!

Here are some of the other new features:

Ringing Up Sales:

* Customers can be assigned in the Simple Receipt View – Customers can now be assigned to receipts using the Simple Receipt view, and workflows that require customers such as redeeming rewards or using charge accounts are also supported.

* Coupons can be scanned/entered on receipts – Coupons can now be defined along with other discount types and automatically applied to items on a sales receipt by scanning or entering the number.

* Coupons can be printed with Sales Receipts – To encourage return visits, you can optionally print coupons along with receipts based upon criteria such as frequency, sales amount, and more.

* Prompt to email sales receipts – You can optionally prompt to email receipts when they are completed. For those customers that do not have an eâmail address recorded, it can be entered at the time the receipt is completed.

* Customer PO#s can be recorded on sales receipts – When selling to companies you can record the customer’s Purchase Order number for later invoicing from QuickBooks.

* Quick-add items while ringing up sales – When ringing up a sales, you can quickly add an item not already in your inventory through a simplified item dialog, then go back in to add more detailed information later as necessary.

Customers:

* Customer Center – The Customer Center offers quick insight into your customers – how many there are, how many are returning, and how much they’re buying. Also includes the ability to create targeted customer lists for email, letters, mailing labels, or export to files.

* Email marketing integration – You can create targeted customer lists to take advantage of sales information in your system, such as customers that have not made a purchase in the last 90 days, and send it automatically to Constant Contact or export it to a file for manual upload to another service.

* Customers can be identified as companies – When identifying a customer as a company, the company name appears in lists and reports instead of the company contact name.

* Customer Creation Date added to report lists and filters – You can now create reports based upon when a customer was added to QuickBooks Point of Sale/POS.

Other:

* New Discount Report/Graph – The discount report now includes all types of discounts (customer % off, etc.) and a new graph now includes both net and discount amounts.

* Custom Avery tag sizing available – You can now modify tag sizing for Avery tags.
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