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Error: QBXML components not installed, QuickBooks Point of Sale.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788!   When attempting a financial exchange, you see the following error: QBXML components not installed   Why this is happening Some files installed with your QuickBooks Financial software are missing or damaged.   How to fix it Intuit recommends the following 2 solutions for this problem. The first solution may solve your problem, or you may need to both. Solution 1: Rename QuickBooks .TLG files and try again   Close...

In QuickBooks POS, can a customer redeem more than one reward?

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788! In QuickBooks Point of Sale Pro and Multi-Store, you can activate the Rewards Manager, and turn on Rewards Tracking. It allows you to set a percentage or dollars off for purchases your customers make. When they make their next purchase, it will give the opportunity to use the reward.   But what happens if they buy enough to earn 2 rewards? Can they redeem both of them on their next purchase? No. They cannot. The program will only allow 1...

How do I change the company file name in QuickBooks Point of Sale?

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788!   In the past, renaming a company file was somewhat difficult. You would have to close the QB POS program, then open the Control Panel. You would go to Admin Tools, Services, then stop the Intuit Entitlement Client, and the QBPOS database manager. Then rename the folder where the company data was held.   When you restarted the services, and opened QB POS, you could run into a connection wizard telling you it could not locate the...

Error 181026 when trying to backup the data in QuickBooks Point of Sale.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788!  Depending on the version of QuickBooks Point of Sale you are using, you may see Error 181026 The backup was not completed. Check to see if you have sufficient hard drive space. What is happening?Typically, this error has a few possible causes.The Windows operating system on the computer is damaged. You may need to copy off all needed data and reset the computer to factory default. The Hard disk drive is failing. A computer...

Process rental equipment transactions in QuickBooks Point of Sale.

  Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788! If the nature of your business causes you to make rental items available to your customers, you may follow these steps to accomplish that. Detailed Instructions To process rental equipment transactions: Create an inventory item to represent the equipment. Use a cost of zero, a price of zero and a quantity equal to the number of units the company owns. Create a non-inventory item called Deposit on Equipment and assign a price of zero....

Can QuickBooks Point of Sale Automatically Email Reports?

Can QuickBooks Point of Sale Automatically Email Reports?There has been quite a bit of interest in the QuickBooks Point of Sale forum regarding scheduling automatic emailing of reports.  The simple answer to this is that it is not a function within the program.  QuickBooks Point of Sale does not have the capability of automatically generating a report let alone emailing one. The only function QuickBooks POS has the capability of doing automatically is the store-exchange if you are...

My sizes are out of order on my style grid in QuickBooks Point of Sale V11.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788! Anyone who uses a Style Grid has had this happen at some point. The sizes or the attributes are out of order.  Instead of seeing Small, Med, Lge, Xlge, XXlge, they are all mixed up. It can make ordering and viewing the quantities difficult.And in QuickBooks Point of Sale V11 (2013), there just doesn’t seem to be a way to fix it, or even remove a column we don’t want.Well, here is how you can fix this!Run an Item List report.Double...

How Do I Add Sub Departments in QuickBooks point of Sale?

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788!   You can have up to 5 levels of department information for your items. The Help in the QB POS program does not advise you of this, but here is how it works. If you have an existing department, you can go to the Department List ( Inventory, Department List). Highlight the Department by clicking once. Then chose I Want To, Copy Department. When the new department box opens, click after the last letter in the department name, add a colon...

Unrecoverable Error 00000 00000 appears when working on transactions.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788! After updating to QuickBooks 2013 R4, you may see the message Unrecoverable Error 00000 00000 when working on transactions.What you can try nowYou can uninstall QuickBooks 2013 R4 (from the Windows Control Panel) and install QuickBooks 2013 R3 from the links below.http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/Support/Articles/SLN65224 < Prev Next >

Error initializing QBPOS application log when opening QuickBooks Point of Sale!

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788!Error initializing QBPOS application log. If this happens...please contact Technical SupportError initializing QBPOS application log. If this happens every time you launch the program, please contact technical Support. After pressing OK, you see the following error:Unexpected error happened. Please restart QuickBooks Point of Sale. The error is: Exception has been thrown by the target of invocation.How to fix itIntuit recommends the following...

QuickBooks Point of Sale needs a pole display in CA.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788! California requires customer facing displays: Point of Sale display requirements are found in statute at §13300 of the Business and Professions Code. The specific requirement in current law is:13300. (a) The operator of a business establishment that uses an automatic checkout system to sell goods or services to consumers shall ensure that the price of each good or service to be paid by the consumer is conspicuously displayed to the...

Error: QuickBooks has a problem in reading this registration file: qbregistration.dat.

Question on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788! Error: QuickBooks has a problem in reading this registration file: qbregistration.datWhen starting QuickBooks, the Loading QuickBooks screen appears temporarily, and then the following error appears:QuickBooks has a problem in reading this registration file. You need to ask your system administrator to REMOVE this file and re-install QuickBooks C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataCommon...

Why is’nt the billable time showing when I create my bill in QuickBooks Enterprise?

Question on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788! I ran across this recently with a client using QuickBooks Pro, but the same information applies to QuickBooks Enterprise also. He had entered the billable time from the sub-contractors, but when he went to create the bill, it did not advise him that there was time available.After looking at the situation, I found that entering the vendor name activated the Enter Time button on the bill.When I selected this, the beginning date range had...

Error: Unable to start IntuitUpdateService, when installing Point of Sale on Windows 8.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788!  Windows 8 is hitting the market. Will QuickBooks Point of Sale work on it? Here is what Intuit has said:When installing Point of Sale Versions 10 or earlier in a new Windows 8 environment, you see the error:Unable to start the IntuitUpdateService Error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashionWhen you click OK, the installation rolls back and terminates and the product is...

How to fix a customer balance in QBPOS, when you don’t use QuicBooks.

Questions on the software? Call us at 800-609-0788!   It happens. Something gets miss-entered and suddenly a customer has a balance that should'nt, or it is the wrong amount. If you have QuickBooks Point of Sale tied to the QuickBooks accounting software, you can adjust the balance in QuickBooks. But what if you don't use QuickBooks? Here is where it can get a little fun. First, we create an item called Opening Balance or Balance Adjust ( I like balance adjust because the Accountants can...