If you ran QuickBooks Desktop Point of Sale before October 2023, you already know the tool you built your checkout process around is gone. What you might not know is whether QuickBooks itself, the accounting software, was ever meant to replace it. It wasn’t. QuickBooks and a POS system solve two different problems: one keeps your books, the other runs your register. The confusion is understandable since Intuit sold both under the same brand for two decades. This piece breaks down what QuickBooks actually does, what a POS system does that QuickBooks never could, and how the two work together once
