Looking for a program for a small business, to take oders with and store them.

[Ryan]

My family friend is looking to transfer his Flower Business over to an old computer system he has. When his customers come in, he want to be able to quickly put their info (name, address, type of order, price, type of payment, etc) into the application, and have the ability to print the information out as a reciept. I really have no idea what programs are out there, maybe quickbooks?. It needs to also be able to run on a Cyrix 300mhz system with just 64mb of ram..... :Q

So, anyone got any suggestions besides MS word or excel?

 

[screw3d]

You could get someone to program something for you?

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: screw3d
You could get someone to program something for you?

Nah - toooo much trouble. i thinking of purchasing an older version of Quickbooks off of ebay for a few bucks, and anyone know if this would be a good program to do this with?

 

[Jumpem]

QuickBooks does just that. I used it at my friend's car audio shop. It allows information storage for customers and suppliers, receipt and invoice generation, inventory control, ordering, accounts receivable and payable, and other stuff I'm forgetting right now.

 

[skyking]

It would work fine running on win98 with a 300 and 64MB, but would blow badly on 2K or XP. 128MB is recommended for either of those OS's.
If you could go with 128MB of ram( easy enough to do on FS/FT) and had 2k, that would be most reliable. It helps to have at least a 3 gig drive for it, base install is a bit bloaty.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Check out some of the wizard templates that come with Access.

They may wish to consider upping the memory in that system to at least 128MB

Inexpensive systems that will work for a small business come in under $400 and will allow a greater varity of S/W options to be looked at.

 

[damiano]

come on dude tell them to buy a new comp and deduct it from taxes as it is a business

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: damiano
come on dude tell them to buy a new comp and deduct it from taxes as it is a business

If they do not need a system, then it is not cost effective.

Many small business do not have the ability to go out and pick up a $500-1000 system every couple of years.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Simply Accounting is a great program.

You could also create an interface and use an Access database.

A new computer, while not necessary may be useful. The current computer would probably be running a 9x based OS which may lead to crashes which may not acceptable in a business enviroment. But by also upgrading, you open your options to POS (point of sales, not piece of ...) software.

 

[Fern]

I'm a CPA, and have found Quickbooks the best/cheapest that's out there.

The minimum requirements (read off the box for QB 2003) are 200 mghz cpu and 64 mb ram. Recommended is 350 cpu and 96 ram. He should be fine with current system.