Trade accounts · 2 min ·
Contractor Charge Accounts: Credit Limits and Net 30 Terms
How hardware stores run contractor charge accounts: setting credit limits and pay terms, trade pricing, statements, and keeping overdue balances small.
AUTHORProduct and trade guides
Hardware Store POS Editorial Team
We write every guide on this site from the actual settings screens of the software: product import templates, unit and sub-unit setup, rack and position fields, customer groups, credit limits and pay terms, quotations and stock transfers. Where an article touches tax, we link the tax authority's own page and date the check. We don't publish customer numbers or ratings we can't prove. This profile will list named authors once the owner adds them.
How we write
- Written from the product's live configuration screens
- Reviewed against the published tax authority sources linked in each article
Topics
inventory for hardware storesunits of measuretrade and contractor accountsVAT and sales tax setupPOS migration
Guides by editorial team
Trade accounts · 2 min ·
Contractor Quotes to Invoices: A Faster Quoting Workflow
How hardware stores and supply yards can quote builders faster: live prices, trade groups, units per line, PDF quotes, follow-ups and one-click conversion.
Switching · 3 min ·
How to Import 30,000 SKUs Into a New POS Without Chaos
A step-by-step plan for moving a big hardware item file into a new POS: cleaning, units, categories, batches, opening stock, and checking it before go-live.
Inventory · 4 min ·
How to Organize Hardware Store Inventory With Bin Locations
A practical system for rack, row and position bin locations in a hardware store: naming, labelling, importing and keeping 30,000 items findable.
Inventory · 3 min ·
Selling by the Box, Piece and Foot: Units of Measure in a POS
How base units and sub-units let one hardware item sell by the box, piece, foot or metre, keep stock right, and price packs deliberately. With examples.
Tax & markets · 3 min ·
VAT and Sales Tax for Hardware Stores: UAE, USA, Pakistan
How tax works at a hardware counter in the UAE (5% VAT), the USA (state and local sales tax) and Pakistan (sales tax), and how to set it up in a POS.