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Originally Posted by DMS Racing
Dave, thankyou my point exactly, we are both a walk in store (30% of our business), online webshop (65%) and trackside store at the weekends (5%) this system just is not viable for us at present as I mentioned above, maybe we should stop supporting the meetings (I dont think so) then the stock never leaves the building though.
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This would be possible to accomplish in a number of ways though, if it's worth the effort is another thing.. but let's say you plan to go to a meeting and bring a lot of parts. Then the system only needs to have a function which enables you to "tag" or temporarily "check out" the items which you bring to the track. Let's say you bring a quantity of 5 items of a specific article. If there was 10 available at the store, then as soon as you "check out" the parts i.e when you close the store on friday or something, the web shop now says 5 items are available. When coming back on monday, remaining items are checked back into the system. Depending on the sheer number of items you actually bring to the track though, this might be more or less of a realistic option. The process for tagging / grouping checking out parts could also be made more or less automated for repetative use.
Another solution is of course to equip all items with bar codes and log all purchases. Either stay online all the time through a laptop with 3G modem or periodically check in the purchases being made every hour or so.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that it is infact possible through clever use of software, it all depends on wether it's worth the effort or not.
