I'm looking for a good and stable inventory management software for a small picture frame manufacturing business.. any recommandations. I need to have the option to scan by barcode.

let me know please.

Thats funny. My company is releasing inventory management software today (demo release within the next couple of hours). Unfortunately, its specifically for the stone fabrication industry and has a lot of advanced functionality that you wouldn't need.

Are you looking for something generic (as in inventory widgets, scan barcode) or were you looking for something custom?

There are a number of inventory management programs out there and if you're looking for something standard you could check out TRAX. Not sure how much inventory you're managing, though.

There are about 1000-2000 framed art and mirrors.

Go to www.sourceforge.net and do a search. There should be a ton of open source software available.

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My wife has a home business - Tastefully Simple - and we found this software called "My Small Business" on one of those shareware sites, Winsite.com. Here is their link: http://home.comcast.net/~thomps98/msb/

It is fairly simple, but it does a real good job of keeping inventory, as well as creating orders, maintaining customer info, and tracking sales.

It looks like it was created for small/home businesses - it is pretty generic, so I think it could be used for any type of small business.

Good luck

Any program can work with barcodes. Scanning a barcode just types in the item number or whatever the barcode represents quicker and more accurately than you can by hand.

When you get to a field on an invoice, a purchase order, database, etc. that calls for the item number, you just scan the barcode and it is "typed" in. No mystery, the code holds nothing about the item, just represents the digits that you have assigned to the item number.

So, all programs work with barcodes and scanners. You can go anywhere, scan a barcode representing 12345 and 12345 will appear as text, just as if you entered it by hand.

So, don;t worry about using with a barcode. They all will. Just find the program that works best for you and start scanning.

The scanners themselves are also programmable. About the only thing you will need to set is whether or not to do a Line Feed (Carrige Return) at the end of the scan. If you want the program to move to the next field or function you would have it do a Line Feed. If you just want to stay parked on the field you just entered data into you would not add a Line Feed.

If you are going to print your own barcodes, best to use Code 3 or 9 (or Code 39). It will change virtually all keys on the keyboard into barcode language. Caps or lower case letters, all numbers and most other symbols. I used to have business cards with my name and address barcoded in 3 of 9, with the optional small text underneath.

If you need a nice graphics user interface, like your clients will be viewing virtual images of their prints framed in your products,then go with windows based software. If you need a reliable workhorse inventory number cruncher go with the unix, but don't expect to get those cool web based virtual aps running in the future without putting a windows based front end on it.

Quickbooks Premiere might work for you; it does offer inventory capabilities, and if you check the Intuit website and forums you can ascertain whether or not it can accomodate the barcode scanning you're interested in.

Hi,
You may want to try InstantSalesTracker. It handles everything you have need: customers, suppliers, inventory & accounts.

You can download a free trial at:
http://www.InstantSalesTracker.com

I hope this helps.