Comments | mdlbear: OK, so much for that

mdlbear

OK, so much for that

Jan 11, 2008 21:58

All my random, scribbled-on-tiny-slips-of-paper sales "records" have been ( Read more... )

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technoshaman January 12 2008, 18:51:31 UTC

Still doing accounting the old-fashioned way? *chuckle* Heck, I barely use a checkbook these days.... most bills that would require a check get paid online... and at the moment, nothing *requires* a paper check...

You've usually got the lappy with you at con, right?

Methinks a proper accounting would take more than your standard program requires, given that you have to have a county-by-county accounting *rim shot* of what you sold, but heck you could probably whip up something in OpenOffice... and probably keep a flat (CSV) file of it so you could fire an editor instead of OO to record stuff quickly....

mdlbear January 13 2008, 17:59:10 UTC

The lappy's a bit impractical, since I can't carry it with me all the time, and even if I did it would take too long to set up. Stuff still ends up on slips of paper. Something like a Nokia 810 or a smartphone would work, or a lightweight tablet computer. (Many of my pre-order records were kept on a clipboard.)

Things were really made worse for the preorders by the fact that I was taking orders in four different formats (paypal, paper form, envelopes, and finally direct sale).

technoshaman January 13 2008, 18:00:38 UTC

Things were really made worse for the preorders by the fact that I was taking orders in four different formats (paypal, paper form, envelopes, and finally direct sale).

That do make things difficult.

mdlbear January 13 2008, 20:18:47 UTC

This time around, I'm planning for all "preorders" to be subscriptions to the album website. People will be able to update their contact and shipping information right up until the last moment.