Micro Shop for Beginners Template serves as a quick reference to building a small relational dataset for small and micro businesses. It includes tables for expenses, staff, products, and sales, as well as a prefilled table for common expense types.
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Many people are considering starting and operating their own business. However, accomplishing this requires a plethora of tasks and responsibilities. This Template directs you to the critical information that must be maintained and managed.
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Copy, modify, and expand this Template to meet the needs of your business.
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This template is for new entrepreneurs interested in starting a small business, which may include internet retail, takeout counters, food kiosks, or small restaurants.
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To a new entrepreneur, everything appears overwhelming. This Airtable template was created to streamline your tasks and centralize your business's critical information. Multiple views are available, with information that is linked to other tables to ensure that the entire base has consistent data.
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You may start by copying the base and clearing the sample records, with the exception of the Expense Types table, which you may find useful as a lookup for the most common expense types. Expenses are linked to expense types, suppliers, and employees’ tables. Employees are linked to roles, expenses, and sales.
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For logging sales, start from the Table called Sales and manually enter the Invoice Number, then enter the details in the Sales Details table. At the moment, manual selection of the Invoice Number, per sale, is required to enter details. Sales records are linked to sales details, products, and clients’ tables.
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Essentially, you keep track of your expenses in the Expense Table, your employees' information in the Employee Table, your products or services in the Products Table, and your sales in the Sales Table. Furthermore, you can maintain a list of your suppliers and service providers, as well as your customers, in their respective Tables.
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Also, do explore the Template's additional views.
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The template enables you to keep track of all of your expenses, products, and sales in a single Airtable Base.
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This Template is meant to assist you in your day-to-day operations.
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Below is a list of the Template's main Tables:
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Here are the supporting Tables:
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Additional business tables (including inventory monitoring), compliance views, and dashboard applications are planned for this template in the future.
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Best of luck and have fun exploring.