Manage Your Candle Business with our Candle Business Tracker!

Welcome to the
Candle Business Tracker

Roy Juers & Stephanie Sterling,
Senior Director
Inc
"Flame and Fortune"
Team Founders

Thanks for all your patience, enthusiasm, suggestions, donations, and testimonials!

It means so much!

IMPORTANT:
The Tracker is an Excel 2003-based document, but will soon be available only as an Excel 2007 file.

Your computer must have Microsoft Excel©, or a program capable of "reading and writing" to Excel documents
(such as OpenOffice©)
in order to use it.

If you're already familiar with the Tracker (or have used a prior version), and are ready to purchase the 2010 Version,
Skip this Introduction and Purchase Below!

Track Your Candle Business
Inventory, Expenses, Mileage & Potential Taxes & Deductions

As a business owner, one of our primary responsibilities is to keep track of the following items, which are universal to almost every business that sells a product;

Income from Sales,
Expenses, and how they translate into deductions on a tax return,
Mileage, if you claim use of a vehicle as an expense for your business,
Inventory of all items available for sale, and
Potential Total Income and Self Employment Taxes.

For some, this type of thing is better done by accountants, or by using a paper ledger or spreadsheet. Paper spreadsheets have a large margin for error, though, due to the many manual calculations that have to be made. And if errors are discovered along the way, they must be found and fixed at the source. This can be overwhelming for many.

Enter the Candle Business Tracker document! We used Microsoft Excel® 2003 to create a multi-tab tracking spreadsheet. Take a look at all the benefits you can enjoy, by using the Candle Business Tracker to keep your business organized!

View Year-To-Date totals for your income,
Enter your expenses like a checkbook, categorizing them into columns shown on the IRS Schedule C, for much easier tax return preparation
View your potential Self-Employment Tax on your profits, on any given day
Enter your mileage from business trips, and see it automatically transfer to your expense spreadsheet
Keep track of all your inventory of Jar Candles, Melts, Votives, Specialty Candles, and Bath & Body products, whether you purchased them, sold them, used them to promote your business, or used them personally.
Add to (or subtract from) your inventory on any day of the year.
Look at your inventory either on a product basis (meaning jars, votives, etc) or by scent name.
Have quick access to all Stock numbers available for each product
Have quick access to a list of all fragrances and their descriptions
Keep track of customers during the year, and their orders
"WOW" your accountant with your organization, and make tax time easier, since you'll have an idea in advance, what your year-end results might be.
All formulas are protected from accidental deletion or corruption.
It's very easy to use! If you can write numbers into the rows and columns of a checkbook or a ledger, then you can use Excel. Because that's really all you have to do... enter numbers & some dates, and the spreadsheet does the rest! Don't let its size or layout intimidate you!
Registering for the Tracker also gives you access to my "Tax Deduction Guide" ! It covers the Schedule C line-by-line, discussing different kinds of expenses you may be able to deduct for your business. It's built from excerpts of the National Association for the Self-Employed website.

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2010 Candle Business Tracker!

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1) Click the secure "Buy Now" button below. You'll be directed to the official Pay Pal website. The page will show the CBT as the product, and royjuers@mac.com as the email address where your $20 will be sent.

2) When your purchase is complete, you'll be directed to the Tracker Registration Page. It's VERY important you complete the short registration form, & click the link in the confirmation email you'll receive.

3) If you need to cancel your Pay Pal purchase, click "cancel" rather than closing the window. You'll be directed to the Purchase Cancellation page, and given a choice to either go back to Pay Pal or come back here.

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IMPORTANT NOTES!

CBT Version 10.3.0503 is the last CBT released as an Excel 2003 file! Soon, it will only be available in Excel 2007!

If you have Excel 2003 (or earlier), you can use all CBT versions up to and including version 10.3.0503; However, for any future Tracker versions, you MUST upgrade your computer to Excel 2007!

If you have Excel 2007 already, you can all CBT versions.

By Clicking "Buy Now" you signify you understand the statement above about the Excel 2003/2007 issue, and agree to the Terms & Conditions...