Resources & Guides
Practical guides written for convenience store and fuel operators who want accurate inventory, a clean price book, and counts they can trust. No vendor spin — just what we see in the field across hundreds of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Northern California locations every year.
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Why Your Convenience Store’s Price Book Is Wrong — And What It’s Costing You
Most price book drift comes down to five root causes — from missed cost updates to unmatched local SKUs — and the errors are quietly costing you margin, compliance standing, and customer trust on every single transaction. Here is where to start fixing it.
Read the guide → CStoreOfficeCStoreOffice Inventory Setup: What Every Petrosoft Operator Should Know
Your item-file setup is the foundation everything else runs on — physical counts, margin reporting, and register accuracy all depend on it. We cover the built-in “Count by 3rd Party” workflow and the setup mistakes we see most often that silently skew your variance.
Read the guide → Inventory AccuracyHow to Prepare Your Store for a Professional Inventory Count
First time bringing in a professional count team? A handful of simple steps in the week before — receiving open orders, tidying the backroom, flagging problem areas — make count day faster, cleaner, and more accurate. Here’s the full checklist.
Read the guide → CannabisCannabis Inventory Audits in Oregon, Washington & California
What the law actually requires for licensed cannabis operators — OLCC (Metrc), WSLCB (CCRS), and DCC (CCTT-Metrc) reconciliation, gram-level weight tracking, and the verified counts that protect both buyer and seller during an ownership transfer.
Read the guide → Selling Your StoreHow to Prepare Your Convenience Store for Sale
A practical guide for c-store and fuel owners preparing to sell — brokers, books, line-item inventory valuation, account and vendor handoff, and the close. Includes a free two-part checklist set covering the documents buyers want and every account to transfer at closing.
Read the guide →Tools & Downloads
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Store Pre-Audit Prep Checklist
A free, vertical-agnostic checklist to get your store ready for a professional physical inventory count — faster counts, fewer errors, lower cost. Covers the two-to-three weeks before the count all the way through post-count review.
Download Free Checklist ↓Selling-Your-Store Prep Checklist
Part 1 of a two-part set for c-store and fuel-center owners preparing to sell. Every document buyers, lenders, and escrow ask for — financials, taxes, leases, licenses, loss runs, environmental, inventory valuation — plus a sequenced 12-month timeline to closing.
Download Part 1 ↓Account & Vendor Handoff Checklist
Part 2 of the set. A fill-in workbook for every vendor, login, contract, license, key, and code in the store — internet, alarm, POS, fuel, lottery, tobacco, processor, utilities, leased equipment, insurance, bank. One block per vendor.
Download Part 2 ↓Need help fixing yours?
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