Magiccity726 Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I've officially been in business about 6 months and have about 50 soda/snack machines. I'm grossing decent money but I'm a one man show right now and everything is a mess. Should I use quickbooks? Is there other software systems that I should be using? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZVendor Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Quickbooks is a good program for your accounting as far as tracking company expenses and income but it won't work well for tracking individual account sales. You need specialty software designed for that or pen and paper if you prefer that. Your collections aggregated together are your income and every check you write will be your expenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartvendnw Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 How did you get 50 machines in 6 months? Would love to know the formula used. I'm in month 2 and have located 9 machines. So pacing about 4-5 new machines a month. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk We use a free site very similar to quickbooks called Wave. Google it. 100% free. The only negative is it's exactly like AZVendor says- kinda tricky to track individual account sales. But we've managed to create a way through tinkering with the program. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magiccity726 Posted May 7, 2016 Author Share Posted May 7, 2016 @smartvendnw. I didn't exactly get 50 in 6 months. I took over a few machines from a company that was getting out of the business and I had a few locations before I was actually doing this full time. Realistically, I'm on about the same pace as you, averaging 4-5 new locations a month through locators and my own marketing efforts over the past 6 months. Anyways, thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southeast Treats Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 You have some options, I prefer quickbooks online for accounting ... there is an annual fee, but your data is safe and available to you anywhere. I started out by making each location a customer in QBO and entering collections as sales to each location, and that worked for a while. I went to ParLevel VMS (vending management system) last year to get off of paper route management and am now tracking my collections in their system, then entering daily collections as a single entry in QBO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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