One thing I would like to point out is that a POS can record cash transactions, but they can also provide an easy way to take credit card. Despite the fees, which we adjusted our prices for, our revenues jumped up once we started accepting credit cards via the POS.
We looked into writing our own open source solution, but it didn't make sense for multiple reasons, given the current open source solutions, hardware compatibility issues, and the fact Quickbooks POS is only $80 from techsoup.
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 Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Kelly Martin kelly@bicyclekitchen.comwrote:
Thanks everyone for the replies! This Merch OS looks promising!
Currently for our shift scheduling we use shiftboardhttp://www.shiftboard.com/. We have a basic service, so it doesn't allow folks to sign-in for shifts, but we may upgrade to do that. It's $65/month. Some people hate it, some refuse to use it, but it does work. and they have a smartphone app.
Ride on.
Kelly On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Laurie Hanselmann wrote:
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: 303-393-1963 Fax: 303-393-2607 Laurie@thebikedepot.org www.thebikedepot.org
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:38 AM, David J. Zielinski djzielin@gmail.comwrote:
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:
Any idea how to get off this list? Seriously.
The "unsubscribe" button does not work. Before you write me and tell me
to
try that, please do try it yourself.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Morrison jonathan@slcbikecollective.org wrote:
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: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/t/29323.aspx
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
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