On Demand Education Sessions

• Slide Deck
• 2022 ABACUS Report
• Budgeting and Monitoring Workbook
• 2022 ABACUS Snapshot

• Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo, Greenlight Bookstore - Brooklyn, NY
• Gabriel Moushabeck, Booklink Booksellers Inc. - Northampton, MA
• Sarah Hutton, Village Books - Bellingham, WA
• Tina Ferguson, Face in a Book - El Dorado Hills, CA

Join ABA CFO PK Sindwani, a former bookstore owner, and our accounting staff for our session designed to jumpstart your ABACUS submission. In this session, you’ll receive step-by-step instructions to fill out your ABACUS survey, tips on how to find your information to complete the survey, and ways to find time to report.

Attend a forthcoming workshop with PK for one-on-one assistance with filling out the 2023 ABACUS Survey the submission deadline of July 21, 2024.

• Monday, June 17, at 4:00 pm ET
• Tuesday, June 25, at 8:00 pm ET
• Tuesday, July 9, at 10:00 am ET
• Wednesday, July 10, at 5:00 pm ET

ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On March 14, 2024, Emily Autenrieth (A Seat at the Table Books) discussed Calculating Sales for Store Sustainability.

• Automatically and electronically organize publisher invoices to reduce paperwork and free up time.
• Provide access to invoice information 24x7, enabling you to manage invoices when it’s most convenient for you.
• Provide electronic invoices, allowing you to verify shipments and raise claims for damages or shortages at the point of delivery.
• Allow payments to be prepared and remittances received and stored electronically.
• Link with QuickBooks, enabling automated entry of invoice data directly into QuickBooks.

A big challenge for all bookstores is the volume and management of publisher invoices. In this session, you’ll hear from Batch colleagues and current Batch users about how they save time and money using Batch to manage their invoices and prepare payments to publishing partners. The session will include discussion and demonstrations with focus on how Batch:
- Automatically and electronically organizes invoices to reduce paperwork and free up time.
- Provides access to invoice information 24x7, enabling you to manage invoices when it’s most convenient for you.
- Provides electronic invoices, allowing you to verify shipments and raise claims for damages or shortages at the point of delivery.
- Allows payments to be prepared and remittances received and stored electronically.
- Links with QuickBooks; enabling automated entry of invoice data directly into QuickBooks.

Whether your store or a portion of your bookstore is classified by the IRS as a nonprofit or not, you can still raise funds by applying for grants. Come to this session to learn more about the art and science of grant writing for both nonprofit and for-profit bookstores.

This financial modeling workshop will help you evaluate potential new initiatives for your business. Whether you think it’s time to expand your space with another physical or pop-up location, you want to begin or increase your offering of used books or non-book items, or you’re considering adding a cafe or bar, this workshop will walk you through the financial analysis to help you make sound business decisions. Preliminary work in the Strategic Planning Series: Part I, Part II, and Part III will benefit attendees of this session.

Book fairs come in all shapes and sizes. If well planned, they can be a profitable undertaking for a bookstore. In this session, booksellers with profitable book fair models will discuss different store models and how bookstores with established relationships with local school districts can analyze and optimize profitability.