As part of the recent re-launch of the Access product page on Office.com, we've been showing off how Access can help you run your small business. We've published some new free database templates that you can use to organize your business, and we've also provided articles and videos to help you get started using them.
In this post,
Office Enterprise 2007, we'll focus on the Goods database template. If your business involves selling or reselling things, the Goods template is the one for you. Here's a quick video that gives a preview of how it works:
Download the template, enter your products, inventory levels, suppliers, and a few other details, and you're under way. The Goods template lets you track orders, print invoices, and restock the shelves. Lose some inventory due to damage or spoilage? There's a place to track that. Need to know how much you sold in the fourth quarter of last year? Click a button to run the report. And, of course, you can customize the database as your business changes, adding your own fields, forms, and reports.
To learn more about the template, see the article Cut expenses, manage inventory, and ship effectively by using the Goods web database template.
Stay tuned for information about our other business templates, and let us know what you think! What other templates or articles would you like to see? How can we better help you to get the most out of Access?
--Chris Downs
(updated 3/9/2011 to include the video)
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