How to Adjust for Items Donated to Charity or Sent to Other Stores for Consignment in QuickBooks Point of Sale
Published 03/22/2011 | 
Ruth, I don’t know how to take care of items that I donate to charity or items that I give to resale at other stores…How about items that I take for my own use.
I would create a sales order for the items you’re consigning to other shops. This won’t remove the items from inventory until it’s converted to a sales receipt, but it will reduce your available quantities. For more info, go to Help > Help Contents, select the Index tab and type in “customer orders”.
For the donations and items you take for your own use, I’d do an inventory adjustment. For more info, go to Help > Help Contents, select the Index tab and type in “adjusting quantity or cost”.
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Written by +Ruth Perryman, CMA, CFE, CFM, MBA
Ruth is the president of The QB Specialists, an Intuit Premier Reseller that offers huge savings and expert advice on QuickBooks POS and QuickBooks Enterprise. She is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and a member of Intuit’s Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks POS and QuickBooks Enterprise and has provided expert QuickBooks help to thousands of businesses all over the world since 1996.
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I’m not sure what you mean by not being able to do stock adjustments yourself. When you adjust your inventory, it creates a journal entry in QuickBooks. If it doesn’t have the correct expense account, you can always edit it in QuickBooks.
Is’nt it better to to let the items go through your POS and the make an adjustment at months end? Ain’t stock adjustments dangerous if you can’t do it youself?