AboutScottgem Expertise I can answer some questions on a wide variety of business applications, including MS Office, Lotus Smartsuite, Visio, Notes and many others.
Experience I have over 16 years of experience as an IT professional, supporting a wide variety of business applications.
Question I have a consignment shop and right now, as it has been for the past few years, everything from tagging and consignor payouts is done by hand. This was an OK system, but now I have MANY consignors and generate a LOT more business and I just can't keep up anymore and would like to computerize my business. I would like to get to the point where I can print bar codes which I can then scan at POS. I'm hoping the assignment of payouts to consignors will then be automated, from which I can just print reports, saving me innumerable hours of sorting hand-written tags! I just don't even know where to begin I guess.
I've looked at SO many different kinds of business software, all of which is either over $2,000 or seemingly useless. Do you know what kind of software might be good to use for my business? I thought quickbooks would be a good choice since it's produced by a reputable company, but there didn't seem to be anything that's "consignor-specific."
Thanks so much for your time!
Answer I'm not that familiar with Quickbooks, but you may be able to tweak it to do what you want. I would contact omeone expert in Quickbooks or Intuit sales support to see if they can tell yu whether it can be done.
I don't know of any software specific to a consignment business, but if you know of or belong to a trade assn of similar businesses, you might ask what other people use.
If you can't find anything, then you may have to roll your own. If that becomes the case, cn probably build something for you using Microsoft Access that can do what you need it to for significantly less than $2k.
Hope this helps,
Scott<>
Microsoft Access MVP 2007
Author: Microsoft Office Access 2007 VBA
