i did the thing!!
I think I may have burned myself out over the last couple weeks.
I knew the changeover to the new system would wear me out but damn I can barely breathe! But I’m so proud!!
Marissa helped with some of the stuff but most of this was me. Charlie and Marissa set up the hardware in the shop after I got it all working together here at the house.
new stuff
- new point of sale system with completely new hardware and software (five different stations/sale points when before we only had 2
- new inventory program
- new purchase order program
- new credit card processing company with SEVEN readers
- new website theme/design
- 3 new manufacturers who let me become distributor for their stuff
- 2 new manufacturers who are letting me do drop-ship sales
- 350 new products we carry complete with at least 3 pics each, marketing materials, and descriptions that I had to program myself in our POS/online store
- 2 new warehouse locations (1 is our tattoo shop suite and I’m only using that suite address so I can program the online store to force shipping when people buy the drop-ship stuff compared to our shop where they can ship OR pick up in-store. The other warehouse is in Maryland and isn’t really mine but a business associate is letting me use his warehouse as a shipping portal as long as he gets a small cut)
- a new app for Android and iOS that locals can use for more convenient in-store pickup and anybody else can use for regular orders
I decided to do it a couple weeks ago because usually our slow time of the year is July-September, but for some reason the business never slowed down.
Thought for sure the way the economy is that we’d have a REALLY slow time this year but it’s like people don’t give a shit? I dunno. It’s weird.
But the new stuff is all up and running and I’ve just gotta do minor tweaking and get back to ordering more supplies.
I did an order from my biggest manufacturer 3 weeks ago - an order from him usually lasts us 2 months - but we’re so busy that I just sent in a new order yesterday 😲
Everybody loves the changes to the system and ordering and all that!
And so for we’re loving it because we’ve never had systems that sync with each other and now EVERYTHING is run by the same main system so everything is synced and so easy for all four of us to access anytime we want on any device we want!
I’m so proud of how well the shop is doing!
Originally posted by laliecore