Aloha,
A buddy of mine is shaping boards here in Hawaii. He takes orders in a small notebook. I want to help him create an order form so he can keep a record of his clients, board dimensions, and begin a serialize his boards. Anyone have an order form they have seen that works well? A form as a word document is greatly appreciated! Mahalo.
Open up Excel. In the first collumn, at the top, write ‘Customer’… if you want to get real tech you can divide this into 2 collumns (first and last name). Follow suit for the next 3 - 7ish collumns, depending on how many board dimensions you want to track. In the last collumn record serial number.
I’d be happy to develop such a worksheet on a consultant basis. I’ll even put in some pretty lines and colors. For a small extra charge I’ll even throw in some “advanced” features like a window pane freeze, auto serializing, and the ever handy “auto filter”.
You want to get super tech: check out Access.
Price to pay a consultant $100/hour for spreadsheet developement: $8.00
Knowing that you can develop a solution to a small problem yourself: priceless
rKelly,
Thanks for your advice, but I am looking for just a nice form I can have printed up with a carbon copy so the shaper has one copy and the customer has another. Kind of like to stay with the good ol pencil and paper method, just a bit more sophisticated than a notebook. I have found some order forms online that I may just copy… I was just looking for a someone who may have one already made up as a text document. mahalo.
OK… you could go the Layout Program route… e.g. Quark or Pagemaker, but that’s some serious overkill.
Use word, you can still put in little boxes and lines and shading etc. Print out 1 copy and take it over to Kinkos. They’ll put it in CC for you.
there is one on my site you are welcome to modify to suit yourself, dave