I have always been a person that thinks that if you can integrate certain elements of certain things.  Then you can spend time on what really counts and leave the redundant and mundane to either an automated process or less manual task.

Since we have had our store , we knew that a ‘ma and pa’ shop would not be able to open and maintain a store with a staff until we were established and made is past the growing bumped that all new business’ go through.

Part of the business plan was to have a Point of Sale (POS) system that would not only keep track of sales, but something that would also keep track of trending reports and help maintain the free shoppers.

There were about 3 options out there and after talking to both east and west coast peers, we went with a system that would work on our current hardware and software; however it was about the worse business decision that I have ever made and regret it to this date.

After attending the Alliance and Diamond retailer summit in 2008 and saw a demo of the Comic Suite and got to play with it.  I knew this would be a much better fit.

Needless to say, up front there is a lot of work as you have to get your entire store into the inventory system, but so far it hasn’t been that painful.  The only current hurdle is getting those items that are not bar coded, into the system and coded.

In about 2 weeks I am estimating to be online with the new system