eMobile POS QuickBooks Integration Guide [2026 Updated]

Connecting your point-of-sale system to your accounting software is one of the most effective ways to automate your bookkeeping and gain a real-time view of your business’s financial health. If you use eMobile POS and QuickBooks, setting up this connection is essential for reducing manual data entry and minimizing errors. This guide will walk you through the integration options, a step-by-step setup process using a third-party tool, and how to troubleshoot common issues.

Why You Should Integrate eMobile POS with QuickBooks

While manually exporting sales data and importing it into your accounting software might seem manageable at first, this process quickly becomes tedious and error-prone as your business grows. Integrating eMobile POS directly with QuickBooks Online eliminates this burden. The primary benefit is automation; once connected, your daily sales transactions, customer information, tax data, and inventory adjustments can flow from your POS to your accounting ledger without you lifting a finger.

This automation provides two massive advantages: accuracy and timeliness. Manual data entry is a leading cause of bookkeeping mistakes, such as transposed numbers or duplicate entries, which can misrepresent your income and expenses. A direct integration ensures the data in QuickBooks precisely matches the sales recorded in eMobile POS. Furthermore, with data syncing daily, your financial reports—like your Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet—are always current. This allows you to make informed business decisions based on real-time insights rather than waiting until the end of the month to reconcile gaps identified in sales.

Understanding Your Integration Options

When connecting two software platforms, the ideal solution is a native integration—a direct connection built and maintained by one of the software developers. As of 2026, eMobile POS does not offer a direct, native integration with QuickBooks. This means you’ll need to use an alternative method to get your data flowing between the two platforms. Fortunately, there are reliable ways to accomplish this.

• Third-Party Automation Tools: This is the most common and recommended method for most small businesses. Platforms like Zapier or Make (formerly Integromat) act as a bridge between thousands of different applications, including eMobile POS and QuickBooks. You can create automated workflows (called "Zaps" in Zapier) that trigger an action in one app when a specific event happens in another. For example, a new sale in eMobile POS can automatically create a new sales receipt in QuickBooks Online.
• Custom API Integration: For businesses with more complex needs or access to a developer, building a custom connection using the application programming interfaces (APIs) from both eMobile POS and QuickBooks is an option. An API is a set of rules that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. This method offers the most flexibility and complete control over the data sync but comes with significant development costs and an ongoing maintenance effort to keep it functional.

For the vast majority of users, a third-party automation tool offers the best balance of functionality, cost, and ease of use.

How to Connect eMobile POS and QuickBooks: A Step-by-Step Guide

This guide will focus on using an automation platform like Zapier, as it requires no coding and is straightforward enough for most business owners to set up. Before you begin, you will need active accounts for eMobile POS, QuickBooks Online, and your chosen automation tool.

Step 1: Authenticate Your Accounts

Log in to your Zapier account and navigate to the “My Apps” section. Here, you will connect your eMobile POS and QuickBooks Online accounts to Zapier so it has permission to move data between them.

• Click "Add Connection" and search for eMobile POS. Follow the prompts to enter your account credentials (this may require an API key from your eMobile POS settings).
• Repeat the process for QuickBooks Online. You will be redirected to the Intuit login page to authorize Zapier’s access to your company file.

Completing this step ensures Zapier can securely "talk" to both platforms on your behalf.

Step 2: Set Your Trigger and Action

Your automation workflow is built on a simple "if this, then that" principle. The "if this" part is the Trigger, and the "then that" part is the Action. In our case, the trigger event occurs in eMobile POS, and the resulting action takes place in QuickBooks Online.

• Create a New Zap: From your dashboard, click "Create Zap."
• Choose Your Trigger App: Search for and select eMobile POS as the trigger application.
• Select the Trigger Event: You'll see a list of possible triggers. The most common one is "New Sale" or "New Transaction." This tells the Zap to start every time you complete a sale.
• Choose Your Action App: Now, search for and select QuickBooks Online as your action application.
• Select the Action Event: Next, you'll choose what QuickBooks should do when the trigger event occurs. The best options are typically "Create Sales Receipt" (for sales paid in full at the time of purchase) or "Create Invoice" (for sales that will be paid in the future).

Step 3: Map Your Data Fields

This is the most important part of the setup. Data mapping involves telling Zapier exactly which piece of information from eMobile POS should go into which field in QuickBooks. Mismatching fields here will lead to incorrect bookkeeping records, so take your time.

When you set up the Action step for creating a sales receipt in QuickBooks, Zapier will show you all available QuickBooks fields. You then click on each field and select the corresponding data point from the eMobile POS trigger. Your mapping will look something like this:

• QuickBooks Field: Customer → eMobile POS Data: Customer Name
• QuickBooks Field: Sales Receipt Date → eMobile POS Data: Transaction Date
• QuickBooks Field: Line Item Product/Service → eMobile POS Data: Item Name
• QuickBooks Field: Line Item Quantity → eMobile POS Data: Quantity Sold
• QuickBooks Field: Line Item Rate → eMobile POS Data: Item Price
• QuickBooks Field: Sales Tax Code → eMobile POS Data: Tax Amount
• QuickBooks Field: Payment Method → eMobile POS Data: Tender Type (e.g., Credit Card or Cash)
• QuickBooks Field: Deposit to Account → Here, you'll need to manually select the correct QuickBooks bank account where the funds from these sales will be received. For instance, card payments might go to your "Business Checking" account, and cash payments into a "Cash on Hand" account.

Step 4: Test Your Automation

Once you’ve mapped your fields, Zapier will give you an opportunity to test the workflow. It will pull recent sales data from eMobile POS and attempt to create a sample record in QuickBooks before you finalize it. It is strongly recommended to test the automation with real sample records.

Check the test sales receipt it created in your QuickBooks account. Does the customer name appear correctly? Are the line items, quantities, and prices right? Is sales tax applied properly? If anything looks off, go back to the mapping step and adjust the fields before continuing.

Step 5: Activate and Monitor Regularly

After a successful test, you’re ready to finalize and turn on your Zap. Your integration is now active, and new eMobile POS sales will automatically sync to QuickBooks going forward. It seems simple at face value, but don’t assume it’s fool-proof especially if eMobile POS updates their app or API. At first, and every couple of months, you should check to ensure transactions are syncing as expected. Review the Zap history in your automation tool's dashboard for any errors and periodically spot-check entries in QuickBooks.

What Data You Can Expect to Sync

The exact data you can sync depends on the information provided by the eMobile POS API and the capabilities of your automation tool. In most cases, you can reliably transfer:

• Sales Transactions: Details for creating sales receipts or invoices, including dates, sale amounts, and payment information.
• Customer Information: Contact details (name, email) for new and existing customers, which can be used to either create a new QuickBooks customer or update an existing record.
• Line Item Details: The specific products or services sold, including quantity, price, and descriptions.
• Tax Information: The sales tax amount collected on each transaction, ensuring you report and remit the correct amounts.
• Payment Details: The specific tender such as credit card, cash, or mobile payments to facilitate correct bank reconciliations in QuickBooks.

Common Integration Challenges and Fixes

Even with the best setup, you may occasionally encounter issues. Here are some common hiccups and their solutions:

• Sync Errors or Delays: Sometimes an automation may fail for a range of reasons, including a temporary connectivity issue with one of the apps. The Zap history in your automation platform's dashboard will detail which run failed so you can review and address the root cause. You can usually replay a failed run once it is fixed without re-entering the transaction in QuickBooks.
• Incorrect Data Mapping: If you find a sales transaction with wrong information (e.g., pricing appears in the quantity field), the issue is almost always in the data mapping step. Pause your workflow and go edit the data mapping section, then retest with another sample to confirm the correction.
• Authentication Failures: Periodically, software tools might require you to re-authorize their third-party app connections for security purposes. If your integration stops working, the first plan is to check your connection tokens at your Zapier dashboard or automation tool and re-authenticate as indicated to renew your permission.

Final Thoughts

Integrating eMobile POS with QuickBooks via a third-party automation tool like Zapier bridges the operational gap between taking a sale and recording it in your books. Following these steps helps you create a reliable automated workflow that increases accuracy, provides real-time financial reporting, and frees up valuable time for you to focus on growing your business.

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