thread Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running in Community Corner

What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running? 😫

isabelle — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:36:58 GMT

Hiiiiii Seller Community! Hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. This question was selected on behalf of the Square org, who wishes to learn....

What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running?

Looking forward to hearing and learning from you all ❤️

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

Doran — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:37:22 GMT

Bookkeeping!!! I hate it. I've hired bookkeepers but even then it is several hours a week. OHHH and inventory. I hate that too.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

godiva — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:38:24 GMT

Quarterly tax payments. Blech.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

Candlestore — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:43:18 GMT

Inventory - Making sure we have items in the warehouse and restocking

Ordering Resale Items - a lot of items are out of stock or taking time to find reasonable prices for items

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

TheBubblePitt — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:51:32 GMT

After bookkeeping is marketing. Like just drop off already. You need me. I need you. LOL

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

DArnoldy — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:57:01 GMT

Getting sales information out of Square and into Quickbooks Desktop. Being able to generate custom export reports would help.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

elliestreasures — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:22:43 GMT

Product photography and everything that goes with it - it's so time consuming!

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

TCSlaguna — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:28:53 GMT

Calculating how much to pay out a Service Provider.

and

Figuring out Quantity On Hand to create a Purchase Order

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

ReverendMike — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:45:49 GMT

Creation of digital and in-store description collateral and writing web content.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

aarontw — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:06:09 GMT

Have you tried out Square Photo Studio? I would hope it would be helpful here! We're doing a Q&A with their team on the Community soon!

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

SmokinMowhawkLC — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 23:49:43 GMT

Constantly having to add my appointments to my Google Calendar because Square no longer syncs with Google Calendar. It is the 1 feature that I still need that I lost when the plans were split up.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

Candlestore — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 01:00:43 GMT

@DArnoldy ;

Do you know you can create custom reports in Square which you can export? Now the custom reports are through templates so they may not be as custom as you like but it could help.

https://squareup.com/dashboard/sales/reports/builder/new

I export Transaction.csv and Items Detail.csv and put them in a folder, Open my excel spreadsheet and hit refresh data, this gets my import file the way I need, after I setup Power Query in excel to format my data for me. the refresh data takes a few seconds. Then I use Transaction Pro Importer to get the newly refreshed data as my source to import my Sales Receipts to QuickBooks. The nice thing about this is I have 2 different 'maps' 1 for Square and 1 for my online store (not through Square) to do both files takes me a few minutes where as before I spent about 45min - 1 hour trying to enter all the data and reformat the sales data on the spreadsheets.

Now my QuickBooks desktop Sales Receipt looks like this:

All this was Imported at once for each sales transaction for that day, this is just one sale. To have Squares Deposit ID, I need to wait till at least the deposit was sent out.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

bollinl711LB — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:58:48 GMT

Building a costemer base.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

JCGENERALCONS — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:30:48 GMT

hello please how do i get my customer code they reviewed my account and said everythign was good till now am unable to transfer moneyout

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

Minion — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:46:32 GMT

Soooooooocial Meeeeedia. I am able to do about 95% of all business activity. From website to sales and all the in-between. Social **bleep** media is my Achilles heal. It's the one thing I lack to maintain consistently and that eats away at me in the back of my head that I should be doing.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

Twiggy — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:56:26 GMT

Washing vases and buckets - we have a dishwasher for small vases but most of our vases don’t fit - yes even with the top drawer taken out or are Polish Lead Crystal.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

jjsmeatshak1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:18:04 GMT

1. Inventory Management

2. Scheduling

3. Social Media Posts

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

alexandriak — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:09:08 GMT

accounting is so tiresome and tedious but not enough for me to pay someone else to do it for me

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

pessosices — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:33:23 GMT

Setting up our Employee's Work Schedule is huge. Even after they all put in their availability, it takes a lot of time and work to fit everyone into slots that work for them and fill our schedule, and especially when one person changes their availability, often the whole schedule needs to change. It's a big time-suck.

Re: What tasks are the most tiresome and time consuming, but necessary to keep your business running

weredoughcookie — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:11:53 GMT

Marketing. but I have yet to find an option to outsource it that isnt expensive or robotic feeling. the ability to schedule posts both on email/texts on square and on FB/insta has helped. i do most of it during slow times.

And lately trying to find in stock ingredients. (we are a bakery) i try to keep it to one store but its hard