Thinking about setting up an online store?

Lesko Web Engineering provides you with a fully functioning store and enables you to manage every aspect of your inventory easily and quickly. You also have the opportunity to integrate your store with a general ledger that is accessable to your bookkeepers, customers and yourself online. There a variety of approaches to navigating through the stages of establishing an online store.

Many storeowners are intimidated about the amount of additional work having an online store might entail. You already have one store which is a lot of work to maintain. Technology allows for options that can enable a centralization of data, with access to it from POS, online sales and a general ledger. Integration is the key. You don't want to have to manage two separate inventories. When you purchase an inventory item in your general ledger, it should change the count for that item in the online store and the POS database as soon as it is received. When a sale is made in the land shop, it should decrease your inventory both in the online shop and the general ledger, posting to the appropriate accounts at the same time. When you change the price of an inventory item in the general ledger, in the online store or through your POS software, it should automatically change it for all three.

The benefits of integrating your POS, online sales and General Ledger include:

• Enter Inventory in one place and draw from there for POS, onsite sales and GL postings
• Purchasing inventory enters the inventory on your site and in your physical shop upon receipt of the inventory
• POS reduces inventory in both the land and online store and posts to the GL immediately
• Site sales reduce the inventory and post to the GL immediately
• Invoices printed out at the time of POS and on the site are emailed upon sale completion and can be viewed in the general ledger
• Reports for quarterly taxes are easier to produce