Originally Posted by
dwmckee
The current 'system' the owner has does not track cost of goods sold, or anything at all that is normally used to tightly manage a large shop. We plan to run it much more tightly than it has been run in the past. with modern accounting and tracking.
I think that's part of my point- is the business big enough that the effort of running it "more tightly" will pay off on the bottom line? It takes time and labor to set up a POS system and continued time and labor to keep it correct. Even if you go with a major supplier's system (so wholesale cost, pricing, barcodes, etc. would be automatically updated) you'll need to devote some time maintaining costs, pricing, barcodes,etc. for stuff that you don't get from that major supplier.