Sales Mapping
Setup - Create your Sales Mappings
Log into Garde and go to **Accounting > Sales Mapping. You’ll see the screen below. ** Note: This screen is only editable for users with the Franchisee Accountant, Accountant, and Garde Admin role. To create your Sales Mappings, click the + Add Row button. You should then see a new row in the table. Next, start typing in your sales mapping details. Below is a description of each column:- Description is the name of the entry
- Accounting System Account are the accounts from your chart of accounts. By double-clicking this field, you can select an accounting code from your chart of accounts, and this will allow your sales entries to flow over to your accounting system because Garde has instructions on where to send that data. You can have multiple rows report to the same accounting system account. Everyone has their accounting set up differently. If you do not know how these POS items should be coded/mapped, you may need to contact your accountant regarding the best way to record this information.
- Category Type will either be blank or “Food, Beer, Wine, Liquor, NA Bev, Retail or Other.” For the rows related to sales of one of these types, please pull down the menu and select the relevant type.
- Include in Sales Reporting: This does NOT exclude this line from reporting to your accounting system! This field determines what is included/excluded in your sales calculations. How this is set in your sales mapping page will determine what you see on P&L, home screen Sales Report, sales emails, etc… Select include for any line you wish to include, select exclude for any line you want to exclude. Anything set to “Exclude” does not require a Category Type.
- Memo : This line is for your notes (optional). They will appear in the memo field in your accounting system if memos are supported.
- Accounting System Accruals : This optional field allows you to accrue assets or liabilities if the line’s Accounting System Account you mapped requires a vendor or a customer.
- For example, if you want to accrue sales tax to a vendor (“State XYZ Treasurer”), you can choose the correct AP account in “Accounting System Account” and then choose the Vendor here. Or, if you want to accrue a receivable, you can choose the AR account in “Accounting System Account” and the customer using this field. This is rarely used but will need to be mapped on this screen if you would like it to use it.
- Class : You will see this column if you use Classes or Locations in QuickBooks. If you don’t see it, no worries! If you do, you will need to set the appropriate class for this unit. This is done in the sales mapping screen. By double-clicking this field, you can select the appropriate class or location from your QuickBooks.
- Group : This allows you to report separate rows from your POS together. For example, your POS has separate rows for Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express, but you likely don’t want the accounting entry to show these separately because they come in as one deposit. If you put the same Group number on multiple rows, we will combine them and send them across as a single amount.
- You can have an unlimited number of groups (or none): just start with a “1” for the first group, use a “2” if you have another group, and so on.