Your books run on the same database as the register — and the cost lines come §280E-framed.
You came in because your books live in a tool that has never seen a single sale — and because §280E means where a cost line lands is the difference between a return you can defend and one you can’t.
Most shops keep their books in a tool that never saw a sale, re-key everything, and hope §280E got handled downstream. Here the numbers your bookkeeper reconciles are the numbers your closer rang. QuickBooks Online syncs both ways, the bank feed auto-matches, and cost lines are classified for IRC §280E — cost of goods sold versus what isn’t deductible — so the file you hand your accountant is already framed the way the return needs it.
The same numbers, all the way through.
One database, register to ledger
The numbers reconcile because they are the same numbers the register wrote. No export, no re-key, no hoping the totals survived the trip.
QuickBooks two-way + bank-feed auto-match
Push journal entries to QuickBooks Online and reconcile both directions. The bank feed imports and auto-matches, with an unmatched-transaction queue for the stragglers.
§280E cost-line classification
§280E only lets a dispensary deduct cost of goods sold, so where each cost lands is the whole game. Cost lines are classified COGS-versus-non-deductible in the system, framed CPA-ready — not reconstructed downstream.
Nightly anomaly sweep
A nightly sweep flags the entries that don’t look right before your CPA does — and well before the IRS would.
Let the rows do the work.
Every cannabis POS exports to QuickBooks. None do the §280E judgment — that happens downstream in a CPA’s ledger, on numbers re-keyed out of the register.
Where the numbers come from
Exported from the POS, re-keyed into a separate books tool.
Where the numbers come from
The same database the register writes to — nothing re-keyed.
§280E cost classification
Handled downstream by your CPA, after the fact, on copied numbers.
§280E cost classification
Cost lines classified COGS-versus-non-deductible in the system, CPA-ready.
Catching a bad entry
Your CPA finds it at month-end — or the IRS finds it later.
Catching a bad entry
A nightly anomaly sweep flags it before either does.
Who does this in a cannabis POS
Effectively no one — they export and hand it off.
Who does this in a cannabis POS
Built in, because the books belong in the same system as the register — not re-keyed into a separate tool after the fact.
The books stay framed for §280E in the same system as the register. Handing a CPA numbers that were re-keyed out of the register is how a mistake gets expensive at exactly the wrong time.
See your books tie to your register.
The demo walks the QuickBooks sync, the bank-feed auto-match, and §280E cost classification on a test run set up for your shop.