Can you keep track of returned "alledged defective" items you have on hand, waiting for return to your suppliers? By supplier? Can you produce a "Returned Goods Invoice" when you ship those items back to your suppliers?

Can you look at a single screenshot and see all of the various price levels (up to 5 or 6) that you may offer on that item, how many are in stock, how many are commited to orders in progress, how many are committed to layaways, how many are on order and what your YTD sales of that particular item is?

Can you run a Gross Profit Per Item report, showing how much you made on each item by any of these - supplier, manufacturer, class, department or category?

Can you get a report showing sales by month for each item for the previous 12 months, plus a total for the 12 months prior to that?

And while I doubt that anyone would want to sell, or buy, a used hat, there are many used fishing poles and reels sold. Will QB POS allow someone to take items in on consignment and sell them, printing a receipt for the consignee when they drop off that $ 800 deep sea rig, and then calculating the split when the rig is sold?

Does it have the capabilities to price out 2-fers and 3-fers, etc. One for $ 1.99, 3 for $ 4.99?

Will it handle "matrix" items, like a tee shirt that comes in 5 sizes and 10 colors, all under the same SKU?

And does it have the capability to deal with items like cigarettes and beverages that come in cartons and packs, or case, 12 pack, 6 pack and each - all with the same barcode?

Does it easily handle items that are bought by the case and sold by each?

Can you get purchase information as easily as sales information?

Is there a simple method to correct inventory for loses and breakage?

Will it accept inventory counts from hand-held data collectors and produce a discrepancy report, allowing for double checking of outstanding differences between count and computer, before updating and finalizing the new (hopefully correct) count?

While not applicable to hats or fishing gear, will it accept electronic scales, check readers, etc.?

Can items be tagged for food stamp acceptance, age compliance, etc.?

Frankly, it's been a few years, a a version or two, since I looked at the WB POS. It may by now do all of these.

Frankly, my biggest concern with "anything QuickBooks" (which I do use myself 2005 Wholesale and Manufacturing) is that it comes from Intuit.

I am firmly convinced that after MicroSoft, Intuit is the second most evil company around. They have an insidious plan to take over small businesses everywhere. Like MS, they want to integrate everything needed to run a small business and then suck peoples wallets dry with unneeded upgrades and discontinuing support for versions that work perfectly well for people who do not need all of the bells and whistles that are unnecessary for just doing basic accounting.

One of these days you will be sprouting a sign reading "Aaron's Hats - a division of Intuit". And they will have a straw into your checking account.