Management software

[Tall City Carwash]

Has anyone used a management software for self serves or is the software just for tunnels?

 

[Keno]

what are you wanting to do with the software? I would guess 99% of self serves don't have a dedicated management software. we use excel and google sheets, its pretty basic stuff

 

[Randy]

I have a yellow legal pad and some Ticonderoga pencils that seem to work out pretty well managing my self serve car wash.

 

[Tall City Carwash]

I would love to track it that way. Problem is we started with seven locations and I am trying to find a way to track expenses, maintenance and inventory separately for all seven without mucking everything up.

 

[cbchevy4x4]

I would love to track it that way. Problem is we started with seven locations and I am trying to find a way to track expenses, maintenance and inventory separately for all seven without mucking everything up.

I dont have 7 locations, but i do have 2, tracking income and expenses is easy in quickbooks. I Just set up income and expense categories with sub categories for each location. pretty easy and straight forward. As far as maintenance and inventory i use randys method.

 

[Greg Pack]

For years I used QuickBooks. I have separate accounts for each wash but if you want to use one account for multiple washes in QuickBooks you can assign classes. When making reports you can specify which class so it will include data assigned only to that wash

 

[Earl Weiss]

Since each location should be a separate legal entity to avoid liability cross contamination and make any future separation easier, you should have a separate bank account for each. You can use a separate QB company for each but the issue them becomes that unless you have an old desktop version you pay monthly subscription for each. Using QB makes it easy to provide a P & L and Balance sheet to your accountant at year end.