Predictive Forecasting: POS Systems + QuickBooks
Can you trust your forecast for next month? askotter reads POS Systems and QuickBooks together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does predictive forecasting with POS Systems and QuickBooks work for a small business?
askotter reads POS Systems and QuickBooks side by side so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account. Forecasts that update as your numbers change, with a likely range attached.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From POS Systems
- Transaction data, Product-level sales, Customer identification.
- From QuickBooks
- Income and expense data, Accounts receivable/payable, Cash flow statements.
- Status
- POS Systems and QuickBooks are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing POS Systems or QuickBooks. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Can you trust your forecast for next month?
Most small business forecasts are last year's numbers in a spreadsheet. They miss that your ad spend doubled this quarter or that the busy season started early.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads POS Systems and QuickBooks side by side, so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account.
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How POS Systems and QuickBooks records line up
POS Systems and QuickBooks both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Both tools can hold a phone number. Numbers are normalised to one international format before matching, which catches customers who never gave an email.
Shared between the two: the customer email address and the phone number.
What predictive forecasting uses from each
Predictive forecasting needs enough history to see the seasonal pattern.
From POS Systems that means daily sales by location and item. From QuickBooks it means monthly revenue and expenses by category.
POS Systems and QuickBooks are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
POS Systems on its own
A POS sees the sale at the counter. It only knows who bought when the customer gave a phone number or email for a receipt or loyalty account.
Timing. Many POS systems settle and export transactions in end-of-day batches.
Access. The POS vendor's API where one exists, or a daily export.
QuickBooks on its own
QuickBooks sees what was billed and paid. It has no idea which marketing produced the customer.
Timing. QuickBooks shows revenue when invoices and sales receipts are entered, which can trail the sale in a busy month.
Access. The QuickBooks Online Accounting API with read-only OAuth access.
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Questions about POS Systems + QuickBooks
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How is askotter's Predictive Forecasting different from what POS Systems shows on its own?
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