How to use DROIDSYNC.

1. Download the free beta and unzip it.
2. In the DROIDSYNC folder, double-click INSTALL DROIDSYNC - CLICK ME FIRST. If this PC doesn't have Python yet, the installer downloads it from python.org for you.
3. Leave the setup window open. It works through three steps — installing components, downloading the automation browser (about 150 MB, the long part), then creating shortcuts and opening the app.
4. Answer whether you want a DROIDSYNC shortcut on your Desktop. The Start-menu entry is always created, so Windows Search finds it either way.
5. Read the Terms of Service, tick I have read and agree to these terms and press Agree.
6. First-time setup opens: Your POS & books, Connect your POS, Your stores, then Look, email — done. The next two guides walk through it.

QuickBooks Desktop

1. On setup's Your stores step, press Find my stores automatically — or + Add one by hand — and give each store its QuickBooks company file (.qbw).
2. Open QuickBooks on that store's company and log in as Admin.
3. On DROIDSYNC's main screen press Connect QuickBooks, pick the store, and press Connect now.
4. QuickBooks itself asks whether to let DROIDSYNC in. Choose the “Yes, always allow access, even if QuickBooks is not running” answer, then Continue, Yes, Done. Leave “allow access to personal data” unticked.
5. Repeat for each store. You never have to do it again on this computer.

QuickBooks Online

1. Pick QuickBooks Online in setup (or later in Settings → Stores).
2. Press Connect QuickBooks Online, pick the store, and press Connect now.
3. Your browser opens Intuit's own sign-in page: log in and pick that store's company. When the browser says Connected!, go back to DROIDSYNC. The link renews itself.

1. Back up QuickBooks (File → Back Up Company → Create Local Backup). DROIDSYNC reminds you before your first import.
2. On Home, tick the stores to run. Leave Date empty for yesterday, or type a date.
3. Press Preview — see what would post. For each store you see the journal entry lines and whether they balance, the deposit and the bank account it goes into, and any problems the real run would hit. QuickBooks isn't opened.
4. Happy with it? Press Run daily sync. Step 1 gets the POS reports, Step 2 posts into QuickBooks, and Result tells you how it went. The Activity panel shows each line as it happens.
5. Open QuickBooks and check the entries against your POS report. Every one carries a DroidSync memo.

1. Home: the top card tells you whether every store posted. The Yesterday panel shows Deposits posted, Net sales, Journal total and Over / short, and each store has a status — Posted, Problems, No runs or Noted.
2. Last 30 days: one square per day — green ran clean, amber ran with problems, grey no run.
3. Dashboard: one card per store with its deposits, net sales and over/short for the last 30 days. Press Refresh after a run.
4. Compare: every store side by side — net sales, average per synced day, deposits, over/short, days synced and a rank.
5. The morning summary lists the store numbers, then anything under “PROBLEMS – these need a human”, then “WORTH A LOOK” — where a drawer that runs short or over several days in a row gets flagged.

Payroll hours

1. Press Payroll sync… on Home, or Payroll in the sidebar.
2. Pick the pay period — type the dates, use Calendar ▾, or a Quick pick like Last 2 weeks — and tick the stores.
3. Press Step 1 - Pull payroll to spreadsheet. Open the spreadsheet and fix anything you need; nothing has touched QuickBooks yet.
4. Press Step 2 - Import reviewed spreadsheet into QuickBooks. Your edits win, and QuickBooks still builds the paychecks.
5. Optional: Employees to import... to untick names that shouldn't be sent, and Automatic schedule to repeat Daily, Weekly, Every 2 weeks, Monthly or Quarterly.

Positive pay

1. Reports → Positive pay: pick the Pay date, the Bank account and who to e-mail it to.
2. Press Build and e-mail now (or Build only). You get the file your bank's positive-pay upload wants — Type, Date, Num, Name, Memo, Amount.
3. Upload it at your bank yourself; the app never touches the bank. The Automatic – on payroll mornings panel can build it on the days you choose.

Month-end

1. Close My Month: pick the month and get a calendar per store — clean, problem and missing days — with totals and the biggest over/short day. Save it as one page or export it to Excel for your accountant.
2. Sales Tax Helper: one month of sales tax per store, day by day, ready to check against your state filing.
3. Monthly Excel export: press Create workbook for the whole month, every store, in one file. Settings → Email can send the monthly report on the 1st.

1. Demo mode is started with DROIDSYNC's demo switch; there isn't a button for it in the app yet. Email us and we'll walk you through opening it.
2. You'll see DEMO next to Daily sync and in the window title. The Activity log starts with “DEMO MODE - Demo Restaurants LLC, 2 stores, scripted syncs, nothing real is touched.”
3. Press Run daily sync and watch a scripted run finish in a few seconds.
4. Look around Dashboard, Compare, Reports and Settings — they're filled with made-up history.
5. To leave, close the app and open it normally. Demo mode lasts only for that session.