Does Future POS Integrate with QuickBooks?
Yes, you can integrate Future POS with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Sage Intacct, NetSuite and Xero using Autymate. Future POS is the restaurant and hospitality point of sale based in Butler, Pennsylvania, which Shift4 announced it had acquired in February 2018. Autymate builds the connection around how each store's Back Office exports, and posts that store's business day with major groups, discounts, coupons, sales tax, card tenders, tips and paid outs on their own lines.
Connects to
- QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks Desktop
- Sage Intacct
- NetSuite
- Xero
- and 300+ more systems
Future POS's own G/L Interfaces sit in the Back Office and "export FPOS sales data to a third party accounting software": QuickBooks, Peachtree, Great Plains, MAS90 and MenuLink. Each runs store by store, and the QuickBooks G/L Interface asks you to "Select a Date to Export from the drop down" (Future POS's help, checked October 2026). For one store whose bookkeeper exports each day, that may be all it needs.
Future POS documents its exports and reports rather than a public API. Which route Autymate reads for your stores, a scheduled Auto Report, the Back Office export or a reader set up on the store's back-office computer, is agreed at Connect, and each store's day then posts wherever that store's books are kept.
Future POS Back Office G/L Interfaces, and Where Autymate Fits
Future POS's QuickBooks G/L Interface maps each department, discount, coupon, media and data field to a QuickBooks debit and credit account, with vendors and classes, and can post through a "QuickBooks XML Direct Connection" to the company you name. Future POS itself suggests backing up the QuickBooks company and "consulting the business's accountant" first (Future POS's help, checked October 2026). The choice turns on how many stores, companies and accounting systems one day has to reach.
When the Back Office export is enough
- One store, with its books in a QuickBooks company your dealer has confirmed the export reaches
- A Future POS license other than Lite on that store
- A bookkeeper who runs the export for each date and checks it against that day's End Day Report
- If you use the QuickBooks Export (CSV), card and cash takings your accountant accepts inside its one Deposit O/S figure
When Autymate fits better
- Several stores on one approved mapping, each as its own location, class or company
- Companies whose books are in QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Sage Intacct, NetSuite or Xero, side by side
- A Lite-license store, which can be set up to post through another route on the same mapping
- Card media, card grats and cash on their own lines at every store, not inside the CSV export's single Deposit O/S figure, so Over/Short carries only what the drawer was really over or short
- Each store's day posting after its own Day Divide
- Autymate's team monitoring your runs, with a new major group or coupon held for your decision rather than guessed
Running the Back Office export today? At Connect we fix the last day it posts and the first day Autymate posts, so no Future POS day lands in the books twice.
Future POS Back Office Values and the Accounts They Belong In
Future POS's QuickBooks interfaces work from the values the Back Office already keeps (Future POS's help, checked October 2026): departments and major groups, discounts and coupons, tax, media, paid outs and gift certificates. Read across each row for the Future POS name, the account most accountants give it, and the report that goes wrong when it lands somewhere else.
Sales, discounts and coupons
- Departments and major groups
- POS Discount
- POS Coupon
Tax collected
- Tax Dollars and Exempt Taxables
How the money arrived, and tips owed
- Card media, with Sales and Grats
- Cash and the End Day variance
Paid out, still owed, and the balancing line
- Paid Ins and Paid Outs by Account
- GC (sold)
- Deposit O/S
| In Future POS | Where it belongs | What it costs you when it is wrong |
|---|---|---|
| Sales, discounts and coupons | ||
| Departments and major groups | Sales accounts, with each store as a location or class | Mapped by department at one store and by major group at the next, the same pint of beer lands on two lines and no store compares with another |
| POS Discount | A discounts account, against sales | Netted into sales, a month of manager comps disappears and food margin looks thinner than the menu says |
| POS Coupon | Its own coupons account | Folded into discounts, nobody can tell whether the lunch coupon paid for itself |
| Tax collected | ||
| Tax Dollars and Exempt Taxables | Sales tax payable, and exempt sales on their own line | Left inside sales, tax collected reads as revenue and the return is rebuilt from End Day Reports |
| How the money arrived, and tips owed | ||
| Card media, with Sales and Grats | Card clearing for the total, tips payable for the grats | Posted as one card figure, servers' grats inflate revenue and the card deposit never matches the day |
| Cash and the End Day variance | Undeposited cash, with the variance in Over/Short | Posted at the expected figure, the drawer's short sits inside cash and turns up only when the bank deposit comes in light |
| Paid out, still owed, and the balancing line | ||
| Paid Ins and Paid Outs by Account | The expense each payout paid for | Left in cash, a drawer that bought limes looks short instead of spent |
| GC (sold) | Gift certificate liability, until redeemed | Booked as sales, revenue is counted the day the certificate is sold and again the day it is spent |
| Deposit O/S | Over/Short, holding only the true variance | Used as the balancing line, it takes in card and cash takings and anything else the CSV has no line for, so the file balances while the books are wrong |
One Future POS Thursday, Back Office to Deposit
Thistlewood Tavern Group runs four restaurants on Future POS, each with its own Back Office and its Day Divide set to 4:00 AM. Its Canal Street store rang $5,656.00 across four major groups on Thursday, less a $62.00 manager discount and $35.00 in lunch coupons. Guests left $742.00 in card grats and bought $125.00 of gift certificates, and the manager paid $41.00 out of the drawer for limes and lemons.
Canal Street's Thursday alone, as one entry
| From Future POS | Posts to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Food (major group) | Sales: Food | $3,874.00 |
| Beer | Sales: Beer | $566.00 |
| Wine and liquor (two major groups) | Sales: Wine and Sales: Liquor | $1,216.00 |
| Manager discount (POS Discount) | Discounts | −$62.00 |
| Lunch coupons (POS Coupon) | Coupons | −$35.00 |
| Tax Dollars at 6% | Sales tax payable | $333.54 |
| Card grats, all cards | Tips payable | $742.00 |
| GC (sold) | Gift certificate liability | $125.00 |
| Paid out, limes and lemons | Bar supplies | −$41.00 |
| End Day variance, cash short | Over/Short | −$2.75 |
| Deposit total | Card clearing and undeposited cash | $6,715.79 |
Ties out$6,759.54 paid by guests − $41.00 paid out − $2.75 short = $6,715.79: $5,684.29 in card media Totals and $1,031.50 cash counted at End Day | ||
The same Thursday through the Back Office's QuickBooks CSV
| In the CSV export | Posts to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Major Groups | Sales, one line per major group | $5,656.00 |
| Exempt Taxables | Sales, exempt | $0.00 |
| Tax Dollars | Sales tax payable | $333.54 |
| Sales Discount | Discounts | −$97.00 |
| Paids Ins + Paids Outs by Account | Bar supplies | −$41.00 |
| GC (sold) | Gift certificate liability | $125.00 |
| Deposit O/S, the balancing figure | The account it is mapped to | $5,976.54 |
$5,976.54 in one lineThe file balances because Deposit O/S, "the over/short amount" in Future POS's help, is set to the total debits minus the total credits. Card media, cash, the $2.75 short and the $742.00 of grats all net into that one line, so neither deposit has a line to match and the grats never reach tips payable | ||
- Card media Totals
- +$5,684.29
- Cash counted at End Day
- +$1,031.50
- End Day short
- +$2.75
- Card grats, no line in the CSV
- −$742.00
- Deposit O/S in the CSV
- $5,976.54
Autymate posts Canal Street's Thursday as the first panel shows it, with grats in tips payable and the deposit split between card clearing and undeposited cash, so Over/Short carries the $2.75 the drawer was really short.
Until the card batch is funded, $5,684.29 waits in card clearing and $1,031.50 in undeposited cash. Have a Back Office export from one of your stores? See how your Future POS days would post.
Sample figures. Canal Street charges one 6% sales tax on food and drinks; your rates follow your state, county and city. Gift certificates sold are a liability until redeemed and are not taxed when sold. Canal Street pays card grats through payroll; a store that pays them to servers in cash at checkout has that payout mapped against tips payable instead. The second panel reads the CSV's values as Future POS's help defines them (checked October 2026): Sales Discount is "the total dollar amount of discounts and coupons applied to sales", and which values count as debits or credits is our reading of the help; confirm both with one export from your Back Office during setup. Card processing fees are not shown.
Where Future POS Data Can Go
Restaurant groups on Future POS often hold their stores in several companies, and those companies don't always keep their books in the same system. Every store runs on one approved mapping, and each day posts to whichever system holds that store's company.
- QuickBooks Online
- Each Future POS store's day posted with the store as a location or class, so Canal Street's food sales and another store's read side by side. QuickBooks Online integrations
- QuickBooks Desktop
- Stores whose company files stay on Desktop use the same Future POS mapping as Online, so a major group lands on the same account in either edition. QuickBooks Desktop integrations
- Sage Intacct
- Stores whose books moved from Peachtree, MAS90 or Great Plains, which Future POS's G/L Interfaces name (checked October 2026), post to Sage Intacct by entity, with stores as locations or departments. ERP integrations
- NetSuite
- Each store under its subsidiary, with the day's card media held in a clearing account until the card deposit reaches the bank. ERP integrations
- Xero
- Each store as a tracking category, with GC (sold) kept as a liability and paid outs on the expense they paid for. Accounting integrations
How Future POS Connects
Future POS's help describes each store's data on a local server and documents its exports from the Back Office. The route Autymate uses for your stores is agreed with you, and with your dealer where needed, at Connect.
One closed day, step by step
Reads
Canal Street's closed Thursday from Future POS, over the Auto Report.
Replaces:Exporting each store's day by hand
Gathers
Each Future POS store's closed day as its Back Office holds it: major groups, discounts, coupons, tax, card media and grats, paid outs, gift certificates and the End Day count.
Replaces:Exporting each store's day from the Back Office and unpicking its Deposit O/S line
Sorts
Every line to its own account: sales, tax owed, tips owed and gift certs.
Replaces:Coding the day into the chart of accounts
Checks
$6,759.54 paid by guests − $41.00 paid out − $2.75 short = $6,715.79: $5,684.29 in card media Totals and $1,031.50 cash counted at End Day. A payment recorded twice is held for review.
Replaces:Tying out the deposit at month-end
Posts
To Canal Street's books in QuickBooks Online.
Replaces:Keying journal entries per store
Matches
The $6,715.79 deposit, matched to the day.
Replaces:Hunting for it in the bank feed
A scheduled Auto Report
Auto ReportThe Back Office can run a report on a schedule and save it as CSV, PDF or Excel, emailed after the run. A schedule can run at a set time or "Daily at the Day Divide", which must start at the Day Divide time set in the Back Office (Future POS's help, checked October 2026).
The Back Office export
ExportThe QuickBooks G/L Interface and the QuickBooks Export write a store's chosen date to a file, or through the XML Direct Connection, with the values the whole day already holds.
A reader on the store's back-office computer
ServerTools such as MarginEdge and Avero install their own software on the store's back-office computer and send each day from there. Autymate can be set up the same way where your dealer agrees.
For your IT or accounting team: the technical detail
- Future Fusion on the store server
- Future POS's help calls Future Fusion "the latest version of FPOS software", and the help describes a store server running Microsoft SQL Server, with the Back Office often reached from a desktop computer (checked October 2026).
- Which exports can be scheduled
- Only the QuickBooks G/L Interface, with the MenuLink and Peachtree ones, is on Future POS's list of interfaces that support Auto Report. The QuickBooks Export (CSV), Great Plains and MAS90 aren't on that list, so each is run from the Back Office when needed.
- The Day Divide
- It sets the hour a business day starts and ends, in the Back Office's System Settings, to the hour only. Card batches can close at the Day Divide or at a set time, and a store can choose to close a batch even when Future POS and the card host totals differ.
- Licenses and Enterprise
- The help lists the G/L Interfaces among the functions a Lite license doesn't include. Enterprise shares items, menus and gift certificates between stores, and each store still exports its own day.
- Retention
- A store keeps data for its retention window, and the help says "Once data has been purged it cannot be restored", so a missed day is best collected before the purge runs.
- Shift4's cloud
- Shift4's help says Future POS needs "an additional software component" (its Connection Agent) to reach Customer Hub, Shift4's cloud platform, where Marketplace apps such as 7shifts and Yellow Dog connect.
QuickBooks G/L Interface, CSV Export or Autymate for Future POS?
With no connector at all, a bookkeeper types each store's End Day Report into the books and ties the month to the bank statement line by line. Future POS's Back Office offers two QuickBooks routes of its own. Below, each option in Future POS's own terms, beside what a group of stores tends to need.
Keying the End Day Report
One store with a bookkeeper who keys each day
QuickBooks Export (CSV)
One store whose bookkeeper imports a summary file
QuickBooks G/L Interface
One store on a license other than Lite, with a mapping your accountant built
- Autymate managed integration
Several stores, companies or accounting systems
| Your situation | Keying the End Day Report | QuickBooks Export (CSV) | QuickBooks G/L Interface | Autymate managed integration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How the day is taken | A person reads the End Day Report and Batch Archive | A date chosen from a drop-down, written to a .CSV of summary values | A date chosen from a drop-down, each department, discount and media mapped to a debit and credit account | Each store's closed day, through the route agreed at Connect |
| Where it posts | Wherever your team keys it | Wherever the file is imported | QuickBooks, by file or the XML Direct Connection | QuickBooks Online or Desktop, Sage Intacct, NetSuite or Xero |
| Can it run on a schedule | No | No, it isn't on the Auto Report list | Yes, through Auto Report | Set up to run after each store's Day Divide |
| Who watches each run | Your team | Your team | Your team | Autymate's team, with anything uncertain held for your decision |
Several stores, companies or accounting systems? That is the setup Autymate builds and runs.
Talk to us about yoursRunning Future POS Across Several Stores
Every Future POS store has its own Back Office and its own Day Divide, and Enterprise reporting stops short of the books (Future POS's help, checked October 2026). The books need each store's day, read the same way.
One Mapping for Every Future POS Store.
Your accountant signs off one mapping template for the group. If one store rings its draft beer under a "Tap Beer" major group and the others use "Beer", an approved location-level adjustment sends both to the same sales account.Each Store as a Location, Class or Company.
A franchisee's stores can post to that franchisee's own company, or several stores can share one company as locations or classes. Either way the group reads its stores side by side on the same lines.Each Store's Day by Its Own Day Divide.
A late bar and a lunch store each post the business day their own Day Divide sets, so the books never split one night's trade across two dates.Lite and Full Licenses in One Group.
A Lite store has no G/L Interface of its own, so its day can be set up to come in by a different route, and it still posts on the group's one mapping.Future POS Beside Shift4 Dine or Another POS.
A sister store on Shift4 Dine or another point of sale posts to the same chart of accounts as the Future POS stores. Each system is read on its own terms, so food sales compare store to store whichever system rang them.
More on restaurant and hospitality integrations and franchise and multi-location integrations.
How Future POS Setup Works
Most of the setup is agreeing where each major group, coupon, media and drawer line belongs. After that, each store's closed day posts through the route agreed for your stores.
Connect
We agree the route with you and, where it touches the store server or a scheduled report, with your Future POS dealer or Shift4 support. Then we connect each store's accounting system.
Map
Your bookkeeper and our team place every major group, discount, coupon, card media and its grats, any auto-gratuity, paid-out account and GC (sold), store by store.
Validate
We post one closed day from a single store first, and your team checks every line against that store's End Day Report and Batch Archive.
Automate
From then on, each store's day posts after its Day Divide, at the time of day you set.
Monitor
Autymate's team monitors your runs. A store that traded but sent nothing is flagged, and its day posts once the data arrives. A new major group, a new coupon or a paid out with no account waits for your team's decision, with the reason and what to check; support is on hand to help.
Decide this before anything is built
One entry per store or one per company; whether major groups post gross, with discounts and coupons on their own lines, or net, the choice Future POS's own G/L Interface makes with one switch (checked October 2026); which card media goes to which clearing account; each store's Day Divide, confirmed before go-live; and, if you export from the Back Office today, the date that stops. Days already posted can be reposted if one of these changes after go-live, but deciding them first keeps the first month clean.
What we need from you
- A Future POS Back Office admin for each store, or one person with access to all of them
- Your Future POS dealer or Shift4 support contact, for anything that runs on the store server
- Access to QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, NetSuite or Xero for each company's books
- The Future POS version each store runs, so the route agreed at Connect suits every store
- Someone to review the first week's postings
What a Future POS Integration Looks Like in Autymate
Every store's closed day becomes one run. You see what posted and what waits.
Autymate turns each store's closed Future POS day into one run. Your team sees every store in one list: what posted, what is held and why, and any store that sent nothing, which is flagged and posts once its data arrives. Held items wait for your decision while the rest of the day posts. Every run keeps its mapping version and a log of each step, and Autymate's team monitors the runs.
Thursday Across Every Store
Each store's Thursday is one run: what posted, what needs a decision, and who sent nothing.
Replaces:Logging into Future POS and each company file to check the day closed
Autymate app · sample data
History All stores Thursday3 runs1 needs review1 flagged
Thursday for every location: how many transactions each run posted, and which location sent nothing Automation Location Date Posted Status Future POS daily sales Downtown Thu 6:02 AM 11 of 11 Completed Future POS daily sales Canal Street Thu 6:02 AM 11 of 121 to review Needs review Future POS daily sales Riverside Thu 6:02 AM 11 of 11 Completed Future POS daily sales Uptown Thu 6:02 AM Nothing arrived Flagged Autymate app · sample data: History for Thursday: one row per location, with Canal Street showing 11 of 12 posted and 1 to review, and Uptown flagged because nothing arrived. Canal Street's Thursday, One New POS Coupon Held
A new "Kids Eat Free" coupon worth $28.40 from Wednesday's Back Office still has no account in the approved mapping, so it carries into Thursday's run, held for your team. Thursday's own lines posted.
Replaces:Finding the bad line at month-end close
Autymate app · sample data
History Canal Street · Thursday
Future POS to QuickBooks Online.Canal Street · ThursdayNeeds review
Future POS daily sales · Thursday at 6:02 AM · Canal Street
Started by the scheduleMapping version 411 of 12 posted
Transactions (12)Mapping snapshotEvent log
Transactions in Canal Street · Thursday: what each line from Future POS posts to, its amount and its status From Future POS Posts to Amount Status Food (major group) Sales: Food $3,874.00 Posted Beer Sales: Beer $566.00 Posted Tax Dollars at 6% Sales tax payable $333.54 Posted POS Coupon "Kids Eat Free", Wednesday Nothing posted $28.40 Needs reviewResolve + 8 more posted No account for a new POS Coupon
Canal Street rang a coupon called "Kids Eat Free" on Wednesday, and the approved mapping gives it no coupons account yet.
Nothing was posted for this transaction.
- Post it to the coupons account with the other POS Coupons (chosen)
- Skip it for now
Do this automatically from now on (ticked)
Autymate app · sample data: The Canal Street · Thursday run: 3 of its posted lines, and POS Coupon "Kids Eat Free", Wednesday held: No account for a new POS Coupon. Canal Street rang a coupon called "Kids Eat Free" on Wednesday, and the approved mapping gives it no coupons account yet. Chosen: Post it to the coupons account with the other POS Coupons. Missing-Day Checks
A store that sends nothing is flagged, and its day posts once the data arrives.
Replaces:Finding a missing day yourself and asking for it to be posted
Autymate app · sample data
Missing-day checks Uptown Last 7 days- Fri: posted
- Sat: posted
- Sun: posted
- Mon: posted
- Tue: posted
- Wed: posted
- Thu: flagged, then posted when its data arrived
Thursday: nothing arrived from Future POS by 6:02 AM, so Uptown was flagged. The data arrived at 9:40 AM, and Thursday posted to QuickBooks Online.
Autymate app · sample data: Uptown's week, with Thursday marked. Thursday: nothing arrived from Future POS by 6:02 AM, so Uptown was flagged. The data arrived at 9:40 AM, and Thursday posted to QuickBooks Online. A missing day posts once Future POS has the day's data. If it is late in Future POS, the day waits until it is there.
Every Run Is Kept
The log records each step, the mapping it used and the deposit matched to the day.
Replaces:A spreadsheet of what was imported, when and by whom
Autymate app · sample data
Transactions (12)Mapping snapshotEvent log (9)
- Thu 06:02:00Run started by schedule.
- Thu 06:02:01Read Canal Street's Thursday from Future POS: 12 transactions.
- Thu 06:02:01Applied mapping version 4.
- Thu 06:02:02Thursday's Future POS day read for Canal Street through the route agreed at Connect: major groups, the manager discount, coupons, card media with grats, the paid out and the End Day count.
- Thu 06:02:02Thursday's entry carries a reference back to its Future POS business day, so each line traces to its store.
- Thu 06:02:021 transaction held for review. None of it reached your books.
- Thu 06:02:03Posted 11 transactions to QuickBooks Online.
- Thu 06:02:04$6,715.79 deposit matched to Thursday.
- Thu 08:41:10Resolved "No account for a new POS Coupon" by Alex Rivera.
Sales Receipt · QuickBooks Online · mapping version 4 · kept exactly as this run used it
Autymate app · sample data: The run's event log, step by step, and the mapping snapshot it kept: Sales Receipt · QuickBooks Online · mapping version 4 · kept exactly as this run used it.
Want this view for every store? Talk to us about your setup
Proof From a Network on One Chart of Accounts
A group of stores reads as one business only when every store posts to the same chart. Minuteman Press posts 900 franchise locations to one chart that way, from monthly files rather than a point of sale.
Minuteman Press
Monthly file dropstoQuickBooks OnlineEach franchisee's books post to QuickBooks Online on one standard chart of accounts, so head office reads every location the same way.
- franchise locations
- 900
- a week saved per franchisee
- 3 hrs
- chart of accounts
- 1
Results described are from specific Autymate engagements. Results are not typical and will vary with data volume, source quality, system access and project scope.
Future POS Integration FAQs
Yes, you can integrate Future POS with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop using Autymate. Future POS's own Back Office also has two QuickBooks interfaces, a G/L export with an optional XML Direct Connection and a CSV export, each run store by store. Autymate posts each store's business day with major groups, discounts, coupons, tax, tips and card tenders on their own lines, and Sage Intacct, NetSuite and Xero work the same way.
Through Autymate, both. Future POS's help documents QuickBooks exports and doesn't mention QuickBooks Online (checked October 2026); its direct option is a "QuickBooks XML Direct Connection" that imports "to the QuickBooks company specified". Ask your dealer before counting on it for an Online company. Autymate posts Future POS days to QuickBooks Online and Desktop alike, and stores in one group can post to different systems, such as Online for one company and Desktop for another.
Each store sets its Day Divide in the Back Office's System Settings, and Future POS's help says the field "will only allow the user to adjust the hour and time division (AM or PM). Minutes cannot be adjusted." A store with its Day Divide at 4:00 AM counts a 1:30 AM check in the night before. Card batches can close at the Day Divide too, so the sales day and the card day can be set to match.
Yes. Future POS Enterprise shares items, menus, customers and gift certificates across stores, but its reports are Gift Card Reconciliation, Item Costing and Sales by Range, and the help documents no combined export for the books (checked October 2026). Autymate reads each store on its own and posts it to its own company, or to its own location or class in one company, on one mapping template your accountant approves once.
Future POS's help and Shift4's help center document no public Future POS API (checked October 2026). Partners connect in other ways: software installed on the store's back-office computer, a scheduled report, or Shift4's Marketplace, which Shift4 says needs "an additional software component" for Future POS. Autymate agrees the route for your stores at Connect, starting from the exports and reports your Back Office already produces.
Shift4 announced it had acquired Future POS in February 2018, and still maintains it: a Shift4 help article updated in September 2026 names a fix in Future release 6.0.7.40. As of October 2026, futurepos.com redirects to Shift4 Dine, and support runs through Shift4 and the dealer who installed your system. Future POS's online help, in a build dated March 2017, still documents the Back Office, so confirm current behavior with your dealer.
With shift tracking on, Future POS's help says "users cannot end a day with open shifts", so that day waits until a manager closes the last shift. With Autymate, a store that sent nothing for a business day is flagged, and its day posts once the data arrives. If the back-office computer was off, its days can be set up to post in order when it comes back, before the store's retention window purges them.
Autymate holds a SOC 2 Type II report. Autymate reaches each store's data only through the route your team agrees with us at Connect, whether that is a scheduled report, a Back Office export or a reader on the store's computer. Each run is logged, and each entry Autymate posts points back to its Future POS store and business date, so a controller can follow any line in the books to the day it came from.
Future POS's Batch Archive report splits each card media into Sales, Grats and Totals (Future POS's help, checked October 2026), which is what a deposit has to be matched against. Autymate holds card media in a clearing account until the money lands, and can be set up to match each card deposit to the business days inside it, so a weekend batch reads Friday, Saturday and Sunday apart.
Future POS doesn't publish prices, and its help says the G/L Interfaces aren't included on a Lite license, so a Lite store has no G/L Interface to export from (checked October 2026). Autymate's work is scoped from your stores, licenses and accounting systems and quoted separately. Weigh both against the hours your bookkeeper spends each week exporting every store's day, one date at a time, and sorting out what the export leaves in one line.
Sources and Method
Facts about Future POS on this page come from Future POS's online help (the Back Office manual Shift4's help center still links to), Shift4's own help articles, the MarginEdge and Avero help pages, and the 2018 acquisition announcement, checked on October 31, 2026. The Future POS online help on this page is a build dated March 2017; confirm current behavior for your stores with your dealer during setup. The worked example uses sample figures.
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Bryan founded Autymate after more than a decade building financial automation systems, and leads client engagement on the integrations the team ships. His focus is turning manual, multi-system workflows into low-code data integrations and custom applications for multi-location and financially sensitive businesses.
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