QuickBooks and Merchant Accounts

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If you want to use QuickBooks® accounting or point of sale software you may think you have only one option for your merchant account provider. If Intuit had it’s way that would be true but thanks to some determined companies that is not the case. That means now you can use Quickbooks and go with the best merchant account provider you can find; you are not stuck with using Intuits solution.

In recent years several companies have developed plug-ins for QuickBooks®. These are small applications that run inside of the software that enables the user to run a credit card transaction from within Quickbooks. So there is no need for double entry of credit card transactions or downloading a file form a payment gateway and then uploading it into QuickBooks®.

This all sounds great but up till now these plug-ins have a been a little unstable. The merchants I had using these products were mostly happy but did experience some technical issues from time to time. I happy to report I have found recently found a plug-in that is solid, dependable and simple to use and my clients love it. The company that developed this plug-in is Comstar Interactive and here is a link to their website:

Comstar Interactive - QuickBooks Plug-in

Here is some of the things they say about their plug-in:

Charge Anywhere designed for QuickBooks® Financial software (Pro, Premier and Enterprise Editions for 2005, 2006 and 2007.),truly putting the power to process credit card payments in your hands.

The QuickBooks user will be able to process credit cards directly from their QuickBooks interface and will automatically apply payments to the customers’ payment screen.

Features :

Process payments directly from invoices
Process multiple invoices
Automatically applies payments
Import transactions processed via POS terminals
Process returns and voids
Recurring Payments

Benefits :

No more double data entry to process credit cards
The credit card transactions are automatically applied and posted
Keep your books up to date without extra effort
Record payments automatically in your QuickBooks®
File right after processing the payments in QuickBooks®
Free up yourself or your staff – spend more time on your business

Here is a nice summery of this plug-in that you can print out - Comstar QuickBooks Merchant.

There are some other plug-ins out there but I have not had any of my clients use them so I can’t vouch for them. If you have a had a good experience with another plug-in please leave a comment below.

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