receipts

[aszu77]

hi,
i`m going to open e shop and i have silly question. do i need special receipt book (with copying pages) or can i just simply print receipt out of excel in two copies?

 

[paulears]

You can use whatever you like as long as it's reliable, and you take the usual precautions on backing up. Printing and sticking a copy in the filing cabinet is still more 'tangible' than leaving them somewhere in the machine.

Excel works quite well, and my first three years accounts were not a problem to the accountant done this way.

 

[PMSToys]

We track sales just using Excel. It's a small venture so we have low volumes so entering the line item total etc isn't that much of a problem.

If you're going to be dealing with heavy volumes and want to track properly your costs against earnings etc and get reports, there's plenty of software out there. Some of it is specifically aimed at small businesses.

Try searching for Quicken, also SAGE Line 50 I believe is a small business package. Obviously these will cost....