Awesome QuickBooks Add-Ons For 2008

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Intuit has been working on this problem for several years now with QuickBooks Point of Sale (QBPOS), and version 7 is definitely an Awesome QuickBooks Add-on. QBPOS has a real-time, departmentalized inventory management (multi-store available), merchandising tools, pricing and margin management tools, reports, and superior integration with QuickBooks Financial software.

The product is sold as software-only, or with an optional hardware bundle that includes the cash drawer, receipt printer, bar- code scanner and credit card reader.

Over 75,000 customers use QBPOS, and there are hundreds of consultants in the field who focus entirely on selling, installing and supporting the product.

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TrueCommerce Transaction Manager – EDI Integration for QuickBooks
TrueCommerce
www.truecommerce.com

Pricing: $795 and up
Target Customers: TrueCommerce Transaction Manager is for businesses that need to use Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for purchasing and invoicing with their business trading partners.

EDI is a set of ANSI standards for sending and receiving elec tronic financial transactions. It is an entrenched technology, known for being costly and complicated for a small business to set up and administer. Many larger companies such as Wal-Mart require their suppliers to accept EDI purchase orders and other transactions, so this requirement leaves the small business suppliers no choice in the matter. They must implement an EDI solution or forego many business opportunities. TrueCommerce set out to simplify and cost reduce the EDI process for small business owners (most of whom use QuickBooks), and they’ve hit a home run with Transaction Manager.

Transaction Manager enables the sending and receiving of EDI transactions with a trading partner via an electronic private gateway (TC.Net). Transactions travel electronically between partners and are processed with an e-mail-like software product on a local PC. Transaction Manager translates incoming EDI transactions into a traditional purchase order format. The purchase order may be viewed on-screen, printed to paper, and/or exported to the user’s accounting system where it creates a Sales Order to be fulfilled. When invoices are created in the accounting system, Transaction Manager can translate those invoices into EDI transactions, which are sent electronically to the trading partner.

TrueCommerce integrates with QuickBooks, Fishbowl Inventory, Acctivate, Peachtree, MAS 90/200/500, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Micro soft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics SL, and SAP Business One.

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UniResMan – Hospitality Industry Reservation Systems
UniResMan Inc.
www.uniresman.com

Pricing: $100 to $400 per room, depending on modules added.
Target Customers: Small hotels, resorts, motels, villas, and apartments with between 20 and 300 rooms.