software help

[Coin Operated Group]

Anyone know a suitable program I could use for entering all my takings from sites, and also pull up a certain sites takings etc and also put all invoices in for working vat etc.

[Venderbase]

You want something like Venderbase but geared towards your Big multi priced vending machines.
If you know a little MSAccess you could whip up a database.

[Coin Operated Group]

msaccess ???

could it calculate commisions due and vat payable also could you input invoices i get.

[Venderbase]

MSAccess creates databases. It's what Venderbase is built on.
It'll calculate whatever you want it to, as long as your data is stored correctly.
If you don't know anything about databases, you'll have no chance sorry.

[Coin Operated Group]

a datawhat??

[Venderbase]

Stick with counting your fingers

[choice vending]

Matt are you on an organsation trip??

Looks like Daz might have a fully paid expences trip to the midlands

[PGBrew]

Matt,

I use Excel for all financial information. It will do what you are asking if set up correctly. If you want fully automated VAT etc returns use Sage. You could setup your purchase daybook & sales daybook in Excel, then post to Sage on a monthly basis. I'm not VAT registered and am a sole trader, therefore I have a very simple operation, so I do my whole accounting within excel includuing sales, purchases, comission paid, gross profit, profit & loss & net profit. I use a separate spreadsheet for each area and each product group snacks toys & Pringles, each site has a worksheet. each spreadsheet has a summary sheet for upto 60 sites giving me total sales for each site, total sales for the month & year. All totals are carried forward to a separate summary sheet for each area. then I have a final spreadsheet and with a single screen view or year to date figures. So provided data is inputted correctly on each site worksheet you can go immediately to the final summary sheet to show where you stand YTD. Saves me a fortune in accountancy fees. I don't record how many of what tins I sell or manage site visits/performances etc you need Venderbase for that.

Pete

[Coin Operated Group]

Could sage do all of it?

[PGBrew]

Matt,

I don't know if Sage will automatically calculate commissions. Sage is for accounting (what are you using for accounting at the moment?). For management information you could use spreadsheets as mentioned or as Daz says MSACCESS/Venderbase but all these programs need setting up correctly in the first place.

Pete