Insights
Insights
News and updates from the Rundoo team
The best POS systems for lumber yards in 2026
A buyer's guide to lumber yard POS systems in 2026, from Epicor BisTrack, ECI Spruce, and DMSi Agility to Flitch, GenetiQ, and Rundoo, with a plain answer on which kind of yard each one fits.
Board foot calculator: how to calculate board feet
A working board foot calculator plus the formula with examples you can check, the nominal vs actual trap in softwood, the quarter-inch tally in hardwood, and how a lumber counter turns a price per thousand into a price per piece.
BOPIS for independent stores: buy online, pick up in store
Buy online, pick up in store works for an independent hardware, garden, paint or feed store when the website reads the same live inventory the counter sells from, and the rest (staging, notifications, payment) is will-call process your team already knows.
Credit card surcharge laws by state (September 2026)
Surcharging is legal in most of the US, but the card networks, your state, and your processor each get a vote, so here are the caps, signs, and receipt rules, with the statute linked for every state that has one.
Cycle counting: how to stop closing the store to count
Cycle counting replaces the dreaded once-a-year full count with about an hour of daily counting that keeps on-hand numbers honest, catches shrink while the trail is warm, and never closes the store.
Dead stock inventory: how to find it and clear it
Dead stock is retail inventory that has stopped selling, and here is the routine to define it by days since the last sale, size it in dollars, clear it without wrecking your margins, and keep the next batch from piling up.
Texas ag exemption and farm tax exemptions at the counter
The farm tax exemption belongs to the farmer, but the audit risk belongs to the store, so here is how to collect the right document, exempt the item rather than the person, and keep a paper trail that survives an audit, with Texas and nine other farm states.
House accounts: limits, statements, aging, finance charges
What a house account is and how to run one well: credit limits and terms, monthly statements, a worked AR aging report, and how finance charges are calculated and regulated.
Inventory turnover ratio and GMROI for hardware stores
How to calculate inventory turnover and GMROI with a worked example, why turns differ so much between fasteners, power tools, and seasonal, and why GMROI is the better lens for a supply store.
QuickBooks POS discontinued: what to switch to in 2026
Intuit discontinued QuickBooks Desktop Point of Sale on October 3, 2023, and it still opens but gets no patches, support, or payments, so here is how a supply store picks a replacement that keeps the books in QuickBooks.
Reorder point and safety stock formula, with examples
The reorder point and safety stock formulas worked through one lawn fertilizer SKU, then fixed for the weekly distributor truck, late deliveries, and the season, and translated into min and max.
Resale certificate and sales tax exemption certificate guide
A resale or tax exemption certificate only protects your store when you take it complete, check that the purchase fits the buyer's business, verify the number where your state offers a lookup, and keep the paper where an auditor can find it, and contractors are where the rules get tricky.
Simple assembly in Rundoo: how to repot, pre-bag, and build a new product without breaking your cost of goods
Rundoo is not manufacturing software and we will not pretend otherwise, but a purchase order that balances to zero will turn four components into one finished product, carry the whole cost of goods across with it, and leave you room to mark up the work.
How to tell AI to find a product to promote, then build the program around it
We asked Dooey to write the memo on picking a product to promote and turning it into a real program, then ran it end to end on our demo store, where a product that looked like dead stock turned out to need two different offers.
Meet Dooey: The Story Behind the New Name
The AI that reads your store's numbers, catches the errors, and runs the busywork now has a name of its own: Dooey, because it does things.
Garden Center POS Systems: 5 Best Compared (2026)
A buyer's guide to the POS systems garden centers and nurseries run in 2026, from Comcash and Rain to Rapid Garden POS, Square, and Rundoo, weighed against living inventory, bulk goods, and a spring rush that arrives whether you are ready or not.
How a paint store POS should handle tinting, formulas, and color matching
Why a general retail POS fails to handle tinting, and what color matching, formula sync, and catalog search should actually look like when the sale starts with a gallon and a fan deck.
Hardware POS: key cutting, tool rental, and serials
The hardware counter runs on services a generic POS never planned for, from a two-dollar key cut to a chainsaw rental deposit to the serial number on a warranty claim, and here is how to keep every one of them at the register.
Bulk Feed Pricing by the Pound, Ton & Delivery
How feed stores sell bulk goods by the pound and the ton, write delivery tickets for farm routes, and carry producers on account, and why generic point of sale software fumbles every one of those jobs.
Ordering from Buttery, PACOA, and your farm-and-home distributors
How farm, ranch, and feed stores that buy from Buttery, PACOA, Wallace, and Orgill turn distributor ordering into a search and a scan instead of a portal and a clipboard.
Living inventory: tracking nursery plants by variety, size, and season
Why generic retail inventory fails a garden center, and how to track plants that come in a dozen sizes, shrink on the bench, and arrive from growers in waves you have to plan for.
Net-30 without the headache: contractor charge accounts for paint stores
Contractor charge accounts are the financial backbone of a paint store, and doing them right means house accounts, per-customer pricing, clean statements, real aging, and a way for painters to pay from their phone instead of the shoebox-and-spreadsheet workaround a general POS forces on you.
Hardware store inventory management: running 40,000 SKUs without losing the aisle
A working guide to hardware store inventory management, from clean distributor item data and honest counts to bins, labels, and reorder points that stop guessing before the shelf goes bare.
Rapid Garden POS alternatives for nurseries and garden centers
Where garden centers go when they outgrow Rapid Garden POS, which nurseries should stay put, and the living-inventory and charge-account questions to ask any vendor before you dig up your register.
Farm accounts, seasonal terms, and getting paid at harvest
How farm and feed stores run charge accounts on the growing calendar, from house accounts and per-customer pricing to statements, aging, and seasonal terms that let producers pay after harvest.
Farm Supply & Feed Store POS: 4 Best Picks (2026)
A buyer's guide to farm and feed store POS systems in 2026, from Epicor Eagle and Lightspeed to niche feed systems and Rundoo, judged by bulk units, charge accounts, and statements.
Rundoo distributor integrations: Emery Jensen, AllPro, House Hasson, and more
A spotlight on Rundoo's distributor integrations, leading with Emery Jensen and working through AllPro, House Hasson, Blish-Mize, and Lancaster, with every connection labeled as shipped or in progress.
Square or Clover for a hardware store? Where generic POS runs out of aisle
Square and Clover can get a young hardware store off paper, and the four moments a store outgrows them are predictable: SKU count, charge accounts, distributor catalogs, and purchasing.
Evolving product, evolving careers
Most sales orgs scale by ratcheting quotas until your best month becomes the floor. Here is why Rundoo's goals move with the business, and how careers compound alongside the product.
What AI does in a point of sale
Strip away the buzzwords and AI in a point of sale earns its keep three ways: it answers questions about your store, takes the next step when you ask, and runs the repetitive work on a schedule.
RockSolid MAX alternatives and how they compare
Where hardware and lumber stores go after RockSolid MAX, who should stay on it, and how two stores made the move without missing a day.
Hardware Store POS Systems: 5 Best Compared (2026)
A buyer's guide to hardware store POS systems in 2026, starting with your co-op affiliation and working through Epicor Eagle, Paladin, RockSolid, POS Nation, and Rundoo.
Ordering from Orgill through Rundoo: catalogs, EDI, and everything in between
What connecting a POS to Orgill involves, and how Rundoo automates the catalog, ordering, receiving, and price changes so the data moves itself.
How to switch POS systems without closing your store
The step-by-step playbook for changing your POS while the doors stay open: prep meetings, data migration, training, a go-live morning, and the two weeks after.
How much does a POS system cost for an independent supply store in 2026?
There is no honest single number, but every POS quote breaks down into the same six budget lines: hardware, software, payment processing, data migration, training and support, and the cost of leaving your current system.
Paladin POS alternatives and how they compare
Where hardware stores go after Paladin, which stores should stay put, and the receivables question to ask any vendor before you switch.
How we think about reliability
Most software can be down for an hour and nothing is really lost. A point of sale doesn't get that grace. Here is what we do at Rundoo to keep yours up.
Paint Store POS Systems: 4 Best Compared (2026)
A buyer's guide to the POS systems paint stores run in 2026, from Decor Fusion and Epicor Eagle to Square and Rundoo, weighed at the tint machine, on the charge account, and in the vendor order.
What POS do Benjamin Moore dealers use?
Benjamin Moore dealers run a mix of Epicor Eagle, Decor Fusion, and newer cloud systems including Rundoo, and here is what a paint store POS needs to handle, from tint integration to CCP rebates.
POS data migration: what transfers and how it gets verified
The plain answer to the question every store owner asks before switching POS: which data comes with you, how accounts receivable and tax settings are handled, and how everything gets verified before go-live.
Epicor Eagle alternatives for independent retailers in 2026
Where hardware, farm, and lumber stores go after Epicor Eagle, who should stay on it, and what to ask before you sign anything.
Cloud vs on-premise POS for supply stores: reliability, cost, and control
A fair comparison of cloud and on-premise POS for supply stores, taking the back-office server's case seriously on reliability, all-in cost, control of your data, and the internet outage question.
Rundoo AAA framework: Analyze, Act, and Automate
Six months of leaning into AI-first as Analyze, Act, and Automate, here's what supply store owners are actually building once they stop asking what AI can do and start asking what to hand it next.
How Rundoo engineers pilot directly with clients
At Rundoo, engineers work directly with clients, because we believe the closer the engineer is to the client, the better the product.
Our Mission, Word for Word
That's our mission. We have refined each word over the last few years, and in this post, I want to outline the reasoning behind each word.
We're Not Going Anywhere :)
Where is this company going? What are your long-term plans? Do you want to sell Rundoo? The first time a retailer asked me these questions, I was a little taken aback.
The #1 Question Stores Have for Us
What actually happens when you switch to Rundoo? We walk through the entire process: your dedicated implementation manager, data migration, hardware, training, and go-live day.
How Rundoo Delivers ROI
We analyzed stores that switched to Rundoo and measured what changed: 17% revenue growth, 25% reduction in receivables, and 2% margin improvement.
Try AI First
Why Rundoo rebranded to AI-first, and how clients are using Dooey to analyze, act, and automate across their businesses.
Why we hire engineers from Waterloo
By their fifth or sixth co-op, Waterloo students have a floor high enough to come in and contribute real work. Here is why we have built our engineering hiring around that.
From Reports to AI: How an AI summary saved this store owner $4,200
How one store owner's 10-minute AI daily summary habit uncovered a $4,200 pricing error hidden in his reports.
A Practical Guide to AI for Store Owners
AI is better than ever, but the hype outpaces substance. A practical 3-week guide to using AI in your store.
Why I picked Rundoo over Meta
At a big company you get wide reach but narrow scope. At a startup you get wide scope but unknown reach. If you believe in the company, you can have both.
Where is the offline mode?
Rundoo does not have an offline mode. When WiFi goes out, clients connect to their phone's mobile hotspot or a purchased hotspot box. Some clients have moved to 5G WiFi over wired Internet for enhanced reliability.
Is the cloud more secure and resilient than my own server?
Moving your store's data off a server in the back office and into the cloud feels like giving up control. Here is why the cloud is dramatically more secure and more resilient than the box behind the counter, and why it is not close.
Hiring In Industry
Our philosophy on how we engage with applicants from the industry, including clients, partners, and prospects.
On day 1, change nothing.
The day you switch your POS is the worst day to improve your business. Bring everything over exactly as it was, then change things one at a time.
RUNDOO Culture
Our culture spells our name: Relentless, Unassuming, Now, Delightful, Optimized, Open.
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