Hello from Biloxi, MS

Hello everyone! It is so great to find a website for scrap metal dealers. This is pretty neat! I grew up living in the scrap business. My grandparents started the business in Biloxi, MS back in the late 60s and then my dad bought it from his father and is still in it today. My brother and I are about to start a new location and so now I want to get more heavily involved in meeting other dealers, watch the market, read comments from others thats been in it for very long time and so on. I pretty much know the ins and outs of running the office part of paying customers, identifying metal, running the smaller machines, driving roll off truck, and my favorite, piddling in the tin pile picking up all the nonferrous that people throw out!! More of my concern comes to the accounting and quick books questions as i already read post of people mentioning what they use to keep track. I plan to do my own bookkeeping as I am very good with numbers and keeping track of inventory. I know I am young but i literally been in this business too long and know that you should always keep track of inventory. So if anyone wants to comment on what they use for accounting and do you use the same program for your customer tickets? Our business now uses quickbooks only to watch outgoing checks and incoming deposits. That's it. Then we used Scaleit (highly recommend) for our weighing tickets. We will be starting off small at our new location and really dont mind doing paper tickets because i've done it years in the past but i do want a good accounting program to keep track of everything so i can manage my taxes at the year of the end. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.