Here is where you enter or edit the Category ID and Sales and/or Cost-of-Goods-Sold Accounts for a given Category. The Accounts defined will be the default Sales and/or Cost-of-Goods-Sold accounts used when a Product in a Category entere here is posted to Quickbooks. When an entry exists for a Category, the Account information entered here will take precedence over the Default Sales or Cost-of-Goods-Sold Accounts but not the Account Information entered in the Product Accounts Definition table.

Category   Sales Account   COGS Account

 

 

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Enter a Category ID for the Category (Section) that you want to create a default for.

 

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Enter a Sales Account Full Name that matches exactly the account in Quickbooks that you want to default to.  It's important that the match is exact because this is used as a key into the Chart of Accounts in Quickbooks.  If the match is not exact, the sale amount will not post to the correct account.

 

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Enter a Cost-of-Goods-Sold (Purchase) Account Full Name that matches exactly the account in Quickbooks that you want to default to.  It's important that the match is exact because this is used as a key into the Chart of Accounts in Quickbooks.  If the match is not exact, the product cost will not post to the correct account.