Sway Soturi

Hi Shane, It’s so fabulous how supportive you are of your wife!

From my personal experience, Square is a great system although they do not offer bookkeeping. They will do most everything else from POS to scheduling to payroll to “banking”, etc. Although for our business we just use it for POSS, scheduling, and savings. They will do the item tracking so you know what are the best sellers.

I think it all really comes down to what you and the business needs. For us we have just been really happy with Square.

As for newsletter, what worked well for us is offering something in exchange for people’s email. You will be surprised how many people will sign up when you offer a free muffin (or a discount perhaps). We haven’t done any paid advertising and so far we have about 1500 people on our email list and our open rate is high when we send out our newsletter (45% and up).

Happy to chat more if you feel this info is useful to you.

We started as a CFO in 2019 and have our own cafe for two years now. It’s a lot of learning and I made plenty of mistakes for sure, happy to share my experience :)

Good luck!

Depending on what kind of setup you are looking for. I have found Print Papa is really affordable for smaller quantity. I have also used Lighting Labels and if you put in a big order (10,000+ labels) it’ll be worth it.
I have also used Got Print but only order when there is a sale.
I have heard Sticker Mule is good but have not really worked with them.

For us we use a combination of home printing and commercial printing. Commercial printing – saves me a lot of time and energy. For some products we use compostable stickers so those I print at home.

Hope this helps.

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I tell the customers who ask me to find a local friend to ship it for them…