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Have you figured out a way track each bike instead of EAB, RECYCLE, RETAIL. Id like to track each bike that comes in and then email the donor with a idea of what happened to the bike. But we are talking about 3-4k bike a year.
We use Merchant OS which is great for not only regular retail, but we are also able to track all our donated bikes. We can categorize which go to EAB, retail, or scrap, and then connect all that info to our Quickbooks to get a pretty accurate read of how we are doing on the retail and program side. Also, Merch OS is always available to help if you have a question, which has been a lifesaver!
We use Volunteer Impact for volunteer shift sign-up and tracking hours. This system is not very user-friendly, for the shop or the volunteers, and I wouldn't recommend it.
But between all these programs we have cobbled together a system that works reasonably well.
Laurie Hanselmann Managing Director The Bike Depot 2825 Fairfax St. Denver, CO 80207 Office: 303-393-1963Fax: 303-393-2607
Laurie@thebikedepot.org www.thebikedepot.org
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:38 AM, David J. Zielinski djzielin@gmail.com wrote:
I believe we are using a forked version of freehub to track hours/visits.
However, this doesn't track money or inventory, ect.
Best,
-Dave
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Anthony Siracusa anthony@riseup.net wrote:
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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Morrison
We bit the bullet and just paid for Quickbooks POS, Costco had the package
(drawer, scanner, receipt printer) for $1600. I have also seen it for sale
on techsoup.org for $80
(http://home.techsoup.org/stock/pages/product.aspx?id=G-41216), but you
would probably need to track down all the hardware.
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Accounting#Point_of_Sale
Point of sale system for nonprofit retail:
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison
Executive Director
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
2312 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
w: 801-328-2453
c: 801-688-0183
f: 801-466-3856
www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling
as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone
of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides
refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on
children and lower income households.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Godwin! goodgodwin@hotmail.com wrote:
We use one that an ex-volunteer created using php. It does pretty much
everything that you listed but is currently not very user friendly or easy
to deploy. I've been planning to see if I can get some folks together to
create new, more stable software that will hopefully work for us all. In the
meantime, if you (or anyone else) would like the use of the Bike Tree, I
would be happy to send you the software and help deploy it. We have a short
description on our wiki.
.godwin
From: kelly@bicyclekitchen.com
To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:24:03 -0800
Subject: [TheThinkTank] POS options
Hello,
I know this has come up before and in looking through the archives found
reference to our own homemade POS, but I am undertaking the task of
researching options for a new POS system for our space and thought I'd throw
it out to this great resource.
What POS systems do you all use
To inventory and track sales of new and used parts?
Use of the shop?
Project Bicycles, Earn-a-Bike bicycles?
Work trade?
Do any of you have one system that does it all?
Thanks!
Kelly
Kelly Martin, Operations Facilitator
The Bicycle Kitchen/La Bicicocina
706 N. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90029
W 323.NOCARRO | M 213.210.5631
kelly@bicyclekitchen.com | www.bicyclekitchen.com
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