Re: [TheThinkTank] POS options

9 Nov 2010

      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
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We bit the bullet and just paid for Quickbooks POS, Costco had the package
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(drawer, scanner, receipt printer) for $1600.  I have also seen it for sale
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on techsoup.org for $80
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(http://home.techsoup.org/stock/pages/product.aspx?id=G-41216), but you
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would probably need to track down all the hardware.
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http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Accounting#Point_of_Sale
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Point of sale system for nonprofit retail:
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http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/t/29323.aspx
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Sincerely,
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Jonathan Morrison
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Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
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The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling
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of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides
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refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on
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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Godwin! goodgodwin@hotmail.com wrote:
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We use one that an ex-volunteer created using php. It does pretty much
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everything that you listed but is currently not very user friendly or easy
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to deploy. I've been planning to see if I can get some folks together to
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create new, more stable software that will hopefully work for us all. In the
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meantime, if you (or anyone else) would like the use of the Bike Tree, I
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would be happy to send you the software and help deploy it. We have a short
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description on our wiki.
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From: kelly@bicyclekitchen.com
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To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org
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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:24:03 -0800
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Subject: [TheThinkTank] POS options
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Hello,
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I know this has come up before and in looking through the archives found
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reference to our own homemade POS, but I am undertaking the task of
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researching options for a new POS system for our space and thought I'd throw
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it out to this great resource.
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What POS systems do you all use
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To inventory and track sales of new and used parts?
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Use of the shop?
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Project Bicycles, Earn-a-Bike bicycles?
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Work trade?
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Do any of you have one system that does it all?
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Thanks!
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Kelly
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Kelly Martin, Operations Facilitator
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Re: [TheThinkTank] POS options

Patrick VDT