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Handling old documents

by melly887 Mar 3, 2016 1:22AM PST

Hi, I own a small restaurant in Toronto. I have one doubt ..What is the best way to handle the old documents?. The old bills vouchers proposals and all. it is a pain to handle all the bundle of documents I am thinking about getting the documents digitized. I recently read a case study by Ash conversions . It looks like getting documents digitized make job a lot more easier. Can anyone help me?. Is there anyway to organize the documents. My nephew suggested me to go for a color coding system but that may take a lot of time.

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What is old?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 3, 2016 9:35AM PST

Here, once a document is about 2 years old it's history and simply filed until it may never be needed for a tax or other situation. It costs to digitize so in the bankers box it goes with a good label to note what time period it covers.

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Re: digitize

by Kees_B Forum moderator Mar 3, 2016 3:11PM PST

It's a pain to handle and backup all those folders or disks with all thoses image (or whatever you scan it to) and to search the one you need a few times a year. And it costs a lot of money.

Kees

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