Hey, I know I’m a bit late to the party, but figured I’d chime in here.

We use a combination of paid POS (Litespeed) and CiviCRM, an open source CRM for sales/customers and volunteer tracking/workshop registration respectively.
If anyone is ever reading about Civi/considering using it, I’d be happy to chat about our experience and its strength and weaknesses.

Cheers,
Étienne
(Bike co-op @UBC)

> On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:53 PM, Cyclista Nicholas <cyclista@inventati.org> wrote:
>
> Jonathan,
>
> Can we get a link to your fork please?
>
> cyclista Nicholas
>
>
>> On 2018-10-19 20:16, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:
>> Hi Allen,
>> I spoke with the author of the Broke Spoke application several times to
>> release his source code so that it could become a community effort.
>> Positive Spin and Broke Spoke are similar in that we are both volunteer
>> run. We forked Austin Yellow Bike Project's YBDB in 2014, and have been
>> adding improvements and features for several years now that play well
>> with volunteer end users, which includes a simple CRM. There are always
>> improvements that could be made. If more coders from the Bike Collective
>> community were involved, that would happen much faster. What usually
>> happens is that Community Bike shops create their own software specific
>> to their own needs. With our YBDB fork the objective has always been to
>> build an application that is useful for a wide spectrum of Community
>> Bike Shops, not just for us.
>> I will be in Lexington this Thanksgiving if you want to get together to
>> talk.
>> -Jonathan
>>> On 2018-10-19 09:47, Edward Kirkwood wrote:
>>> All:
>>> At Broke Spoke we have been using a custom database application to keep up with volunteer hours, sweat equity bike and parts sales. It works reasonably well, but like most software that a single individual creates, customer support is only good as long as the volunteer that created it is still around. We are looking at other options like Salesforce for a CRM. Does anyone have any recommendations?
>>> Allen Kirkwood
>>> Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop
>>> Lexington, KY
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