If the answer to this question is “NO” – this engagement will be much simpler as there is no need to worry about the QuickBooks Item list to be syncing up or mapped to the channel/platform’s product list and there is no need to bring the itemized sales details into QuickBooks either and even if it does, there are no potential issues with having unmapped items. Also there are some merchants that sell via “drop ship”, customized products, or built-to-order and have no need to track the inventory of their sellable products or finished goods. Sounds like a redundant question, but the answer is not always “yes”, as we have encountered merchants that sell 100% digital products and/or services.
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Are you planning to manage/track inventory? So, before taking on an e-commerce integration/consultation engagement, these are the typical questions we would need to start getting answers for: 1. Usually the item lists is the most crucial part of this whole setup. Integration also might mean using the data inside QuickBooks to feed into the sales channels/platform such as using the QuickBooks item list to populate the list of items for sale through the channel/platform(s) and also use the inventory (quantity on hand) to determine if the items are available for sale or not. If you are unsure which platform/channel you are using, your web designer/programmer should be able to answer this.Īnd by “integration”, we can define that as using the data from the e-commerce platform (such as sales/transaction information) to feed into QuickBooks, so there is no need to enter the sales details manually into QuickBooks (and hopefully, this will reconcile with the actual bank deposits as they come in). First, let’s start by defining “e-commerce” as selling items (mostly physical/tangible products, but digital products and services could apply as well although rare) via web-based channels such as: Amazon, E-bay, Etsy, Opencart, Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, Volusion, Squarespace, WooCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, etc.