Well, week one of the Go-Live with new company-wide software went pretty well. One of the guys from the software company sat with us the first three days fixing things that didn’t work as we found them and helping us learn to do our jobs in a new way. It was draining, since every broken piece seemed like a major trauma. There is still so much to learn.

This software is all wrapped around a big SQL database. Membership, meetings, inventoried products, accounting, marketing – if we do it, it’s part of the db now. It was entertaining whipping out financials for things we’d just sold out of the system. Sort of the Gee Whiz affect all week. That part was pretty damned cool.

There is still a whole lot of work and tweaking to do, but we’ve gotten off on the right foot and have a good handle (mostly) on all of it. I know far, far more about accounting than I want to, now.