Want To Start A Business? Take A Look At Some Tips

You flip the open sign on the front door of your business, wait for the customers to pour in, buy all your stuff and fill your cash register with money. What a simple way to be in business and make a bundle of cash.

It really does sound so simple but the most important fact you forgot about is what are you going to do about your business security? Every business no matter what type needs some sort of business security in place.

Lets start with a few simple but often overlooked tasks:

1. What to do with the cash and or credit and debit receipts
2. Who is in charge of the money or credit and debit receipts
3. Do you need camera security
4. Do you need an alarm
5. Do you have a plan in place in case of robbery

These are just a few but let us explore them:

You open a business, depending on the size you should have a cash register – one that takes a code or a transaction to open. You either operate it yourself or hire an honest person to do that particular duty. Remember too many hands in the same cash drawer can and will lead to mistakes in the amount of cash or balance of the cash drawer either over or short. Also you should have a safe to put money and or receipts in.

You also deal with credit and debit receipts, which will usually go also into the cash drawer along with the money. You should regulate how much cash stays in the drawer and when it reaches a certain amount, count it and put it into the safe and do the same for the credit and debit receipts. Do this through out the day. You should do this yourself or have someone you can trust do this. Never have too much cash in a cash drawer, regulate the flow of the money.

These days every business should have some cameras working, pointing at the doors and a few throughout the business. Good systems these days will be ran by a digital storage system on a computer in another area of the business so as not to have to change a tape.

An alarm system should also be in place, not only for after hours but also some sort of panic button that can be pressed so as to alert the local police that you have a problem.

You should also have a plan for what to do if someone comes in to rob you. If you have employees they should be trained on what to do in case of robbery. One thing you should not do is resist. Just give them the money. Your business should be insured and it certainly is not worth a human life to save a couple of bucks. Use common sense. Also do not keep firearms on the premises. They will cause you nothing but grief, worry and hardship when misused.

Final note. When you open any type of business, make sure you are security minded so that you can enjoy being in business.