OK, so much for that

[mdlbear]

All my random, scribbled-on-tiny-slips-of-paper sales "records" have been properly scribbled on large, well-ordered pieces of paper. I still need to go through and make an integrated customer list, but at this point I have enough information -- what was sold where, when and to whom -- to compute my sales taxes fairly quickly. I have a little under 2 weeks (including two whole weekends), so that's OK.

The fileserver still isn't dead, but I don't trust it yet. I'll probably upgrade to a Maxtor 500 just on general principles.

22:15 It died. There's a new disk in my immediate future. In fact, I may just start transfering to the PATA drive I bought Wednesday.

22:37 Hmm. I'm seeing write errors on the mirror drive (sdb). The easy thing to try would be disconnecting it first.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Still doing accounting the old-fashioned way? *chuckle* Heck, I barely use a checkbook these days.... most bills that would require a check get paid online... and at the moment, nothing *requires* a paper check...

You've usually got the lappy with you at con, right?

Methinks a proper accounting would take more than your standard program requires, given that you have to have a county-by-county accounting *rim shot* of what you sold, but heck you could probably whip up something in OpenOffice... and probably keep a flat (CSV) file of it so you could fire an editor instead of OO to record stuff quickly....

[mdlbear]

The lappy's a bit impractical, since I can't carry it with me all the time, and even if I did it would take too long to set up. Stuff still ends up on slips of paper. Something like a Nokia 810 or a smartphone would work, or a lightweight tablet computer. (Many of my pre-order records were kept on a clipboard.)

Things were really made worse for the preorders by the fact that I was taking orders in four different formats (paypal, paper form, envelopes, and finally direct sale).

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Things were really made worse for the preorders by the fact that I was taking orders in four different formats (paypal, paper form, envelopes, and finally direct sale).

That do make things difficult.

[mdlbear]

This time around, I'm planning for all "preorders" to be subscriptions to the album website. People will be able to update their contact and shipping information right up until the last moment.