Turbo Inventory offers built-in integration with Big Red Cloud, a seamless connection between your business management software solution and accounting software.

By pairing Turbo Inventory and Big Red Cloud, you can forgo laborious manual data entry, with precise accuracy of your data, that goes directly from Turbo Inventory to your Big Red Cloud account.

Turbo Inventory offers seamless integration with Big Red Cloud to automatically sync following records:

• Customers profiles
• Sales transactions, payments & Discounts given
• Credit notes, on account sales
• Purchase orders, Supplier profiles

Important steps before you begin

Before you start the integration, we strongly recommend you speak to your accountant to discuss the accounts you’d like to post data from Turbo Inentory to Big Red Cloud. Please ensure that Big Red Cloud’s Chart of Accounts has all the accounts that you require for mapping.

Disclaimer: Throughout this article, we’ve made some suggestion regarding account types selection in Big Red Cloud’s Chart of Accounts. However, those suggestions are only for tutorial purposes only. We strongly recommend you speak to your accountant to obtain a professional advice before deciding on accounts mapping criteria and selections for your business account.

Activate Turbo Inventory & Big Red Cloud connection

1. In Turbo Inventory, head over to the navigation and click Apps
2. You will see an option for Big Red Cloud
3. Click Enable, and you will be brought to the Big Red Cloud Page
4. In the API Key box enter your API key from Big Red Cloud
5. You will need to perform a full sync to get the Chart of Accounts and VAT Rates from Big Red Cloud, you do this by clicking Full Sync from Big Red Cloud

Map Big Red Cloud Accounts

This is where you will map relevant account types in Turbo Inventory to define how your data will be posted to Big Red Cloud

Customer for Cash Sales

Select a customer for the cash sales. All cash/walk-in sales will be sync’d to Big Red Cloud under this customer profile. Even though you won’t receive customer information to engage with them further if a generic name is used, you can still identify shopping trends, for all your walk-in customers.

Product Settings

Purchase (COGS) account

This is your default cost of goods sold (COGS) account for inventory products. Your cost-of-goods-sold (COGS) refer to the expenses involved in creating or purchasing the products that your store sells.

PLEASE NOTE: Turbo Inventory also lets you set Category specific Revenue and COGS accounts for each of your product. However, if nothing is specified at a Category level, the above default accounts will be used to post revenue and COGS amounts.

Sales (Revenue) account

Select a default sales/revenue account for your inventory products.

Default Vat Settings

You can set Purchase and Sales VAT rates against each individual VAT Rate in Turbo Inventory. If none is assigned then these are the default VAT rates used