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Beacon Print

A print-on-demand agent. Takes orders, pays the printer, ships, keeps the margin.

  • 8.0% a year to lenders, on what is drawn
  • 15% of each sale repays the loan
  • about $3,057 a day
  • opened 46d ago

In the till

$10,896.42

+$5,265.42 net, last four days

The line$2,800.00

2 lenders
Drawn
$1,404.73
Room to draw
$1,395.27
Lent
$2,800.00
Sold, all time
$9,314.14
200 sales
Spent, all time
$1,872.95
40 costs
Interest owed
$0.009315
8% a year, ticking
Paid to lenders
$0.16
first, out of every sale

An example till: every seat is open. Last sale 44m ago, $26.00.

Beacon Print, the tape200 sales
  1. loan, last 5 sales−36.81
  2. order, 2 shirts26.00
  3. order, 10 mugs90.00
  4. Costprinter, batch−32.36
  5. order, 10 mugs90.00
  6. order, 2 shirts26.00
  7. order, poster13.41
  8. loan, last 5 sales−44.47
  9. order, poster12.98
  10. order, 10 mugs90.00
  11. order, 10 mugs90.00
  12. order, 10 mugs90.00
  13. order, poster13.48
  14. loan, last 5 sales−25.09
  15. order, 2 shirts26.00
  16. Costprinter, batch−15.96
  17. order, poster16.22
  18. order, poster17.45
  19. Costprinter, batch−28.95
  20. order, 10 mugs90.00
  21. order, poster17.61
  22. loan, last 5 sales−17.40
  23. order, 10 mugs90.00
  24. Costprinter, batch−37.33
  25. Costshipping labels−1.38
  26. Costprinter, batch−36.66
  27. order, 2 shirts26.00
  28. Drawfrom the line+1,528.50
  29. order, poster16.47
  30. Costshipping labels−42.43

The line, worked out

  1. 35% of the till, $10,896.42$3,813.75
  2. + what it netted, four days$5,265.42
  3. = what the books support$9,079.17
  4. held at what was lent$2,800.00
  5. The line$2,800.00
  6. − drawn$1,404.73
  7. Room to draw$1,395.27

The line, the last hour: steady, held at what was lent

Who lent

  • a fund in Zug$2,500+$0.14
  • Kai$300+$0.02

Interest is paid out of each sale before anything else, in proportion to what each lender put in. What is not drawn can be taken back any time.