Can I setup a 2nd location and map that location's transactions to a separate Qucikbooks Online?

Hi,
I have 2 related but separate businesses: Retail and Service. Can I create a 2nd location for the service business and map it's transactions to a separate Quickbooks online account?

Doing this would allow us to (1) use gift cards between the businesses, (2) let customers earn/redeem loyalty, (3) allow my service company to consume inventory from the retail side, (4) provide better cc fees than Quickbooks, etc... in short, this would make my life easier.

 

Thanks

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Hi @AG5.  I’m not sure this is a question that we can answer here in the Square seller community.  If it is possible for the Quickbooks third-party integration to separate transactions by location, that would be a feature of the Quickbooks integration and not of anything that Square does.  Square only provides transactions based upon a query sent by QB to them.  

 

Having said that, even if QB does not provide location support/segregation of transactions, as long as you have separate items for service and retail items it should map those separately in your sales report.  The only thing you should need to do is create a QB report for the services and another for the retail items.  In this case, it would be using the same QB Online account, and then use reporting to break sales apart.  Of course, there’s always the option to ask Intuit to add a feature to their Square integration that would be location-sensitive.  But I can’t see how this would involve Square since location is already part of both the transaction and item headers that QB receives.

 

If I misread your question, don’t hesitate to clarify for me and I’ll try again.

Chip A.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I already knew I could do what you mentioned but it's not exactly what I was asking. I'm pretty certain the answer to my question is "no".  I know NCR Counterpoint can do it, wishing I could with Square. I'll leave my service company out of Square for now because item sales through the service company are attributed to the service company, so reporting wouldn't satisfy our needs.

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