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Originally Posted by Great Buys
I don't see where this does anything that cannot be already done with either Quick Books or Peach Tree And I believe Quick Books is much easier. You can keep track of inventory, sales, profit, vendors, customers and much more. Seems like a lot of work on your part when you could have just bought a program that already does this.
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LOL. I will take your Quickbooks and Peach Tree and raise you a Microsoft Retail Management System.
http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/dy....aspx?pageID=2
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynam...-overview.aspx
The reality is a retail management software is really what is needed. But who is going to spend thousands on something like that especially just getting started.
Furthermore, Quickbooks is not actually made to handle something like retail sales which is what we are all here doing. Yes it will handle basic inventory but not something as robust as tracking every sale, applying a discount to the sale (if one was given) and then total that together based upon what location did and / sold what.
Still furthermore, to say it is easier than my spreadsheet is an impossibility. You could be a caveman and use my spreadsheet. It has literally only two pages / sheets of information. Is it RMS >>> Heck no.
Lastly, the cost of purchasing Quickbooks $350+, and trying to learn it so you can enter in tons of inventory and then try to figure how to program and track it for the purposes of retail sales would be almost ludicrous.
Still lastly, the information that Quickbooks or even Microsoft RMS derives could and still would be used to feed info into a spreadsheet like Excel to "crunch the numbers."
Q: I have a PC that runs Microsoft Office and my accounting software. Can I use this computer, and does Microsoft Retail Management System work with my other software?
A: Yes. Microsoft Retail Management System integrates with Microsoft Office and with various accounting applications at the summary general ledger level, including Microsoft Business Solutions accounting products (Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains, Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Manager), QuickBooks, Peachtree, ackbaud, and MYOB.
For example, you will have the ability to export working reports into Microsoft Excel for further data analysis, or use Microsoft Word to do a mail merge of customer information stored in your new Microsoft Retail Management System database for targeted marketing campaigns.
Finally, and this is the main point, my Excel workbook is an extremely easy to use, extremely low cost solution, that will do some very similar things that to Microsoft RMS and yes beyond even quickbooks. For getting started doing what we are doing and until we can afford an amazing program like Microsoft RMS to handle all our inventory / retails sales needs this little spreadsheet workbook is very good.
Still Finally, I did a lot of work so that others can download it and use it with ease. Why take the time and criticize something you really do not know much about?
And you and or anyone is welcome to download it try it and give feedback for what was actually used and or tried.
06-18-2011, 03:33 PM
You're a genius!
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