On September 27th, Intuit released version 10 of Point of Sale. This version represents a huge change in the interface. Intuit is attempting to make the user interface better for a touchscreen user as well as try to simpify the sales process. Since Intuit releases a new version every year and had to make so many changes, I beleive they ran out of time to get everything done properly. We have been told they are planning an agressive patch schedule and in fact, they have just released R3 which fixes a number of problems and R4 is on its way. First of all, here is what I like: The new GUI is very clean for taking sales. The ability to select payment directly from the sales screen can speed a standard sale. The fully indexed search including help is cool. The look and feel is something very different than any other QuickBooks product and more in line with POS systems. The notes feature is pretty slick. Now for the bad news: This product is NOT complete. Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, etc are still in the old interface. You can't customize the sales screen nor change sales dates, etc. The item list has no way to filter except what is out of stock nor is there anyway to save a filter. This is core functionality that has been left out. List edit is sort of gone. If you go to the item list report and click on any item, you are back in the old interface. Receiving without a purchase order is very time consuming as you can't select from the item list. I will continue to blog as I find more stuff. BTW, as we give you work arounds like the item list report, keep in mind that Intuit considers these things that need to be fixed. Hopefully they will fix the new interface before taking away our work arounds. Intuit has allowed us to continue to sell V9 until they have a major patch sometime next year. Please call us for a free on line demo and comparsion between the products.
