A downloadable Excel chart of accounts template aligned to ABACUS survey question lines, making it easier to organize financial data, streamline bookkeeping, and simplify ABACUS survey reporting.
A comprehensive event safety toolkit that provides independent bookstores with best practices, planning checklists, and risk management guidance for hosting safe, welcoming, and well-organized in-store and community events.
A practical guide that highlights the twenty most common mistakes new bookstore owners make and provides actionable strategies to help avoid costly pitfalls when starting and operating an independent bookstore.
With this Airtable put all reviews in this database with relevant metadata such as ISBN, Title, Author, Pub Date, Review, Bookseller, and Cover Image at a minimum to keep all staff picks in one place.
The Book Buyers Handbook is a vital tool for booksellers and features essential information used every day in bookstore operations, including publisher and distributor contact details, imprints, distribution clients, terms, categories, products, and special offers.
A resource to help you start thinking about your bookstore's future and some actionable steps to do along the way.
This printable handout outlines two scenarios that creates stability in buying a location for yor bookstore.
This printable handout gives a flowchart helping you decide when to call the police and gives alternatives to involving the police in problems.
A printable handout on how to prepare your bookstore for Immigrantion and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in your local community. It also highlights I-9 documentation compliance and additional resources.
This editable budgeting and monitoring workbook provides a customizable tool for planning, tracking, and analyzing income, expenses, and budget performance over time.
A printable handout that gives ten actionable ways to prepare your bookstore for climate change.
This editable spreadsheet workbook helps stores track income, expenses, and projected cash balances to monitor financial health and support budgeting and planning.
This editable spreadsheet gives a place for teachers to make a wish or request list.
This weekly timesheet can be used for tracking employee work hours.
This editable checklist outlines opening and closing responsibilities for booksellers. It also includes a sales goal.
This editable checklist is a packing list for off-site events and gives ideas of what to bring and pack.
This is an editable spreadsheet template to track what inventory was sent and sold to a book fair.
This is an editable invoice template for bookstores to send clients for the purchase of books.
This is an editable checklist to use for onboarding and training a new employee.
This slide presentation defines key performance indicators, five KPIs to track, and how to make decisions based of that data.