Advocacy Resources Produced/Used by Community Projects
Some folks associated with MoBo Bike Co-op in Cincinnati are trying to put together bicycle advocacy resources into a sort of advocacy toolbox. Our goal is to produce something that could be used to equip or incite community members to do advocacy work/build community around bikes.
I'm curious if any shops out there like ours have produced anything like this, and could share advocacy resources/ideas they have used. Those of you who do advocacy work of any kind: what resources/documents/actions do you use? Are community projects, specifically co-ops, producing anything of their own or simply borrowing resources from traditional advocacy organizations/clubs?
In the spring we'd like to begin doing some off-site advocacy "workshops"- essentially group events with cyclists and community members who aren't currently connected with our shop community in which we'd provide resources and/or trainings on topics like 'how to organize group rides', 'advocating for better bike laws and planning in your community', 'encouraging new riders', etc.
Any resources, ideas, tips you could pass along would be well-appreciated! Thanks.
Dugan Meyer MoBo Bike Co-op, Cincinnati
Sounds a bit like "the bike shop starter kit" idea that I heard floating around when I visited Montréal. Seems that this is a popular idea.
Chloé Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
-----Original Message----- From: Dugan Meyer dugan.meyer@gmail.com Sender: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.orgDate: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:10:39 To: Think Tank Listservthethinktank@bikecollectives.org Reply-To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Advocacy Resources Produced/Used by Community Projects
Some folks associated with MoBo Bike Co-op in Cincinnati are trying to put together bicycle advocacy resources into a sort of advocacy toolbox. Our goal is to produce something that could be used to equip or incite community members to do advocacy work/build community around bikes.
I'm curious if any shops out there like ours have produced anything like this, and could share advocacy resources/ideas they have used. Those of you who do advocacy work of any kind: what resources/documents/actions do you use? Are community projects, specifically co-ops, producing anything of their own or simply borrowing resources from traditional advocacy organizations/clubs?
In the spring we'd like to begin doing some off-site advocacy "workshops"- essentially group events with cyclists and community members who aren't currently connected with our shop community in which we'd provide resources and/or trainings on topics like 'how to organize group rides', 'advocating for better bike laws and planning in your community', 'encouraging new riders', etc.
Any resources, ideas, tips you could pass along would be well-appreciated! Thanks.
Dugan Meyer MoBo Bike Co-op, Cincinnati _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org To unsubscribe, send a blank email to TheThinkTank-leave@bikecollectives.org To manage your subscription, plase visit: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
No need to reinvent the wheel, if you need advocacy training or materials, contact the following groups (especially the alliance for walking and biking)... http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cycling_Advocacy
Many folks have been adding to this Bike Collective Starter Kit... http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bike_Collective_Starter_...
The key factor is that it is just like editing wikipedia, which if you haven't done, you just need to click on the little 'edit' links to the right of each section -- add text -- click save. If you don't want to deal with the recaptcha anti-spam widget -- create an account and log in. Don't worry about the wiki syntax, just concentrate on the content -- others and myself go around from time to time and clean the syntax up.
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 Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, winter.snowy.rose@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds a bit like "the bike shop starter kit" idea that I heard floating around when I visited Montréal. Seems that this is a popular idea.
Chloé Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
-----Original Message----- From: Dugan Meyer dugan.meyer@gmail.com Sender: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.orgDate: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:10:39 To: Think Tank Listservthethinktank@bikecollectives.org Reply-To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Advocacy Resources Produced/Used by Community Projects
Some folks associated with MoBo Bike Co-op in Cincinnati are trying to put together bicycle advocacy resources into a sort of advocacy toolbox. Our goal is to produce something that could be used to equip or incite community members to do advocacy work/build community around bikes.
I'm curious if any shops out there like ours have produced anything like this, and could share advocacy resources/ideas they have used. Those of you who do advocacy work of any kind: what resources/documents/actions do you use? Are community projects, specifically co-ops, producing anything of their own or simply borrowing resources from traditional advocacy organizations/clubs?
In the spring we'd like to begin doing some off-site advocacy "workshops"- essentially group events with cyclists and community members who aren't currently connected with our shop community in which we'd provide resources and/or trainings on topics like 'how to organize group rides', 'advocating for better bike laws and planning in your community', 'encouraging new riders', etc.
Any resources, ideas, tips you could pass along would be well-appreciated! Thanks.
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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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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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 wikihttp://www.bikeroot.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=bike_tree .
.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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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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 wikihttp://www.bikeroot.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=bike_tree .
.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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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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
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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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We've been using Merchant OS for about 6 months now, it's been awesome. http://www.merchantos.com/
On 11/9/2010 7:38 AM, David J. Zielinski 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 Siracusaanthony@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
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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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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
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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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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:
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
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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Thanks everyone for the replies! This Merch OS looks promising!
Currently for our shift scheduling we use shiftboard. 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.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: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
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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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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
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 http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
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Hello!
I just wanted to share our brand new website designed by Dylan Haley,
an old Cook.
http://www.bicyclekitchen.com/
Kelly
Oh very nice!
Good job.
-jimmy zamora (sf bike kitchen)
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Kelly Martin kelly@bicyclekitchen.comwrote:
Hello!
I just wanted to share our brand new website designed by Dylan Haley, an old Cook.
http://www.bicyclekitchen.com/
Kelly
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Is it:
- Important for us to partner with local bicycle shops for support
- Easy, and how does the LBS support your community shop (financially, parts
donations, mechanic volunteer, other?) 3. Beneficial to the LBS? How do we design the relationship to keep them excited about what we are doing? FINALLY 4. Has anyone gotten "on going" (monthly, annually etc.) financial support from other local business (non bike shop) to help with the rent, youth programs etc,? How is this beneficial to their local business, how do you approach them and IN WHAT WAYS ARE THEY SUPPORTING YOU?
I encourage ANY responses however, I would specifically like to here from people who are either currently involved in the above topics or that have set these up for their community shop.
Thank you,
Timothy L. Chase theGoodWheel.org ContactTimChase@gmail.com
Hi Timothy,
- I think it is important because the LBS can offer help with bike
maintenance questions, have kids into the shop for a short lesson, and to purchase parts and tools at wholesale cost if you do not have an account with a distributor. The LBS may be able to offer volunteers for your bike collective's programs and events (e.g. if you want to do a bike-a-thon fundraiser). The LBS can also partner with you for mini-grants such as the Specialized grant (in-kind).
See #1
If you have program tshirts, I think it's nice to put the LBS's logo on
the shirts for some PR. The LBS can benefit if people in the community hear about their support of your program through newspaper articles, letters to the editor, and newsletters. If you have volunteer/partner appreciation nights where they can see the program's successes, this can help keep LBS's excited about your collective.
- We have in-kind support from our local Lowe's and a grocery stores, but
no memorandum of understanding - I bring donation letters in, and they have gotten to know our program well and can usually help out. We get food, simple green, basic tools and lumber from these places. I approach local businesses with an elevator speech about the program, a letter, and then I follow up with a thank you letter. When our website is up, I will approach these businesses and offer them a spot on our main page in return for a memorandum of understanding (monthly support).
I hope you find this helpful - please feel free to contact me with more questions.
Web site looks Radical!! good work Kyle
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:37 PM, BK Info info@bikekitchen.org wrote:
Oh very nice!
Good job.
-jimmy zamora (sf bike kitchen)
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Kelly Martin kelly@bicyclekitchen.comwrote:
Hello!
I just wanted to share our brand new website designed by Dylan Haley, an old Cook.
http://www.bicyclekitchen.com/
Kelly
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