Trying to switch... 99% there
The final (for now) entry on switching my
business to the mac
So, I'm almost there. I've got my records and
accounting in FileMaker Pro, I can create and manage invoices and expenses
there. The most interesting thing about the process was figuring out how to
translate how my business works into FileMaker. I never realized how complicated
my business was. I have direct sales, consignment sales, digital sales, and then
consignee sales (I sell CDs from some local artists on my site). Additionally, I
have to pay royalties from all these sale types and publishing as well. Then I
have expenses related to releases and general expenses. It was some hard work to
capture all this, and it gave me some real respect for the consultants who do
this for a living. It took about 40 hours of work to get it all done and I still
need to figure out how to make the reporting work so that next year at tax time
it will be easy. The best part of it is that I pretty much don't need Word or
Excel at all any more.
The one thing I
haven't dealt with yet is how to get my database up on my website. It is an NT
server and I figure I can do it using ODBC and something exported from
FileMaker, but it will take some work. I'm going to wait on that until I have
to.
Aside from that, I can definitely
recommend the switch. It has been all systems go.
Posted: Mon - April 11, 2005 at 06:21 PM
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