Hi everyone.

My name is lucie, and i am asking for any advice on stocktaking. I have a long term lease on a public house, which is run by myself and my family. We haven't been in the business very long and hope to make some money. I want to be able to do the stocktaking myself without paying someone. I have been searching the web but sometimes it can be like a needle in a haystack. I hope i can get some advice. thanx

Hi lucie, hope you all do make some money.

How many different items do you suppose you have to count? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands?

What portion of the items are bar coded?

Are they now in a computerized file of some sort, either a specific business application, a spreadsheet or database?

For many years, with thousands of items, I had my people take inventory on my suppliers price sheets. We got sets of price sheets from our suppliers, entered the count along side the item number and sat at an adding machine for about 4 days, running tapes.

Low tech, but a lot easier than writing everything on a lined pad and looking up cost prices for months.

I just replied to anothe post on barcodes and scanners. Maybe that is what you need.

Which goes right around to my first question - how many different items are involved?