Boy kid have we come a long way!
I am putting together a list of renewals and information (as I am doing some office work, taxes and business license paperwork today) and keep adding to the list for our eventual next chapter of our life. As I do this I have to laugh at how difficult stuff was when we bought this B&B. Example:
Business phone line
Second phone line for fax
Credit card swiping machine used a phone line, so took it off line while you did that. There was a purchase cost of this machine and a monthly charge to use it. Not to mention PCI compliance, not to mention a separate agreement for each credit card company and the merchant account. ie Amex had its own and contract. Now we accept everything with a quick swipe of the SQUAREUP reader, from anywhere on the property and have four wifi routers.
We also got rid of the business ph, and it is part of our cable and high speed internet account.
When we bought this "turn key B&B" we had nothing given to us. No past guest information (done on index cards which were taken with)
We opened a closet and there we had a dozen B&B directories that had lapsed and were overdue for renewal, all of them expensive. We had so much more to pay for then, so many more costs than we do today.
I am so not like THOSE PEOPLE. I want the next set of innkeepers here to succeed, after all the blood sweat and tears (and $$) we have put into this, we want them to be happy and have a thriving business and a wonderful lifestyle!
I am putting together a list of renewals and information (as I am doing some office work, taxes and business license paperwork today) and keep adding to the list for our eventual next chapter of our life. As I do this I have to laugh at how difficult stuff was when we bought this B&B. Example:
Business phone line
Second phone line for fax
Credit card swiping machine used a phone line, so took it off line while you did that. There was a purchase cost of this machine and a monthly charge to use it. Not to mention PCI compliance, not to mention a separate agreement for each credit card company and the merchant account. ie Amex had its own and contract. Now we accept everything with a quick swipe of the SQUAREUP reader, from anywhere on the property and have four wifi routers.
We also got rid of the business ph, and it is part of our cable and high speed internet account.
When we bought this "turn key B&B" we had nothing given to us. No past guest information (done on index cards which were taken with)
We opened a closet and there we had a dozen B&B directories that had lapsed and were overdue for renewal, all of them expensive. We had so much more to pay for then, so many more costs than we do today.
I am so not like THOSE PEOPLE. I want the next set of innkeepers here to succeed, after all the blood sweat and tears (and $$) we have put into this, we want them to be happy and have a thriving business and a wonderful lifestyle!