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Field service needs to be fast, reliable, and thorough. With multiple service technicians out in the field and jobs constantly coming in, keeping track of it all can get messy fast. For AW Machinery, that was the reality. “Everything was being tracked on a spreadsheet, and it was easy for things to get missed or duplicated,” said Isaac. “It wasn’t a bad system—it just wasn’t built for where we ...

The Caliber Metal team used to manage everything through QuickBooks and Excel. It worked fine when they were small, but as soon as they started building a larger customer base, cracks began to show.

In the early 1980s, Marvin Sensenig dismantled the engine of his lawn mower atop his kitchen table, seeking to understand the intricacies of how it works and how to keep it running at peak performance. A couple years later he turned his “hobby” into an official side business: Sensenig’s Repair and Sales. As more and more people heard about Sensenig’s, it became Marvin’s full-time job.

Donald Sauder serves as a CPA and financial consultant for all sorts of small businesses. His clients work in manufacturing, steel fabrication, wholesale and retail distribution, construction, and more. Most of these small businesses start with QuickBooks or another accounting software to manage their books and keep track of assets, liabilities, expenses, and revenue. But for many of Donald’s ...

For the team at e-Bikes of Holmes County, EBMS (Koble's ERP Platform) has long been the backbone of their operations. It holds everything they need to know about inventory, sales, customers, and more. But pulling all that data together in a way that made sense—especially when it came time to make buying or marketing decisions—could be time-consuming.

Chance Kamp kept getting asked about auto window tinting. Though focused on tinting building windows commercially, the constant questions about car windows made him realize he had to learn automotive tinting, too. Automotive window tinting turned into customers asking about car steps. Or grill guards. Chance asked a local business to wholesale parts to him, they agreed, and Allout Offroad was ...

With all the factors in play, setting fair pricing can be a real challenge. You need to make sure you stay competitive, while still keeping enough margin to make your business profitable. A lot of business owners choose flat pricing – where every customer pays the same fixed price – because it’s easy to understand and doesn’t require a lot of administrative work to oversee. But what happens when ...

You buy products by the case, but you sell in both cases and individual units. Whether hydraulic hoses, pipe couplers, metal coils, or something else, when you order in one unit of measure and sell in another it makes it hard to do conversions correctly. And if you get it wrong, you can find yourself dealing with costly errors, stock miscounts, and margin losses.

Amy Martin has been a bookkeeper in Lancaster County, PA, for more than 20 years and her services are in high demand. After years of bookkeeping for construction companies, she made the move to start her own bookkeeping business in 2020. Solely by word-of-mouth recommendations, she has built a thriving business with 3 employees in addition to herself. Her clients use a variety of accounting ...

You’ve decided to use an ERP system to manage your inventory. You’ve been told that this can help you keep track of everything that is in stock so you don’t need to do big counts, and you like not having to shut your business down so your team can do inventory and you can get everything sorted out for tax season. Unfortunately, one day your system is telling you that you have 10 tires in stock, ...

As a business owner, you probably love working for yourself, making decisions, and adapting to the challenges that business throws at you. But how do you feel about your business accounting? Do you understand your company’s financial health?

Premiere Building Supply has been a fixture in Lancaster County, PA for more than 20 years. In the beginning they operated both a construction arm and a distribution arm, but in the last five years they’ve moved exclusively to distribution. They supply ProVia windows, doors, and stone veneer as well as other quality window and door products to customers across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.