How Can I Combine Two Cooking Shows and Account for Mileage and Expenses?

[sailortena]

I had a cooking show 35 miles away that I only got $80 of orders at. The host never got any more orders. On Saturday I did an open house that only generated like $75 in orders. I want to combine the two together as one show.

Ultimitely I would just put myself as a host since I did that for my open house, but what about all the mileage I did for the other show? I charged two different sales tax rates for each show, and didn't collect direct shipping charges from the one I drove to.

What would you recommend that I do? I want to tally the mileage I did for one show and the cost of all the ingredients I bought for the massive cooking spree I did for my open house brunch.

 

[jrstephens]

If you are going to put it under your name and get the FPV I would not worry about the milage. As far as direct shipping, will you see the host, so, you can just get the prodcuts to her and have them all shipped to you as host?

Taxes - was the $80 show less or more than your open house taxes. If it was more I would just keep the difference for having to get the prodcuts to the host.

Do whatever you are comfortable doing.

 

[tlennhoff]

Since technically you did 2 cooking shows you can probably put the mileage in but make sure to make a note somewhere that you did that.

 

[sailortena]

Sales taxes is more to my house than the one I drove to. I need to see the hostess anyway to give her a Decorator Bottle Set that a guest wanted. She was so desperate to have it that I sold her my unopened box.I could put her as a co-host maybe? That way I can put in the mileage and claim the ingredients for my open house as a show expense? I need to have the show shipped to me anyway since her orders didn't qualify.

 

[bbauman07]

Yes you could put her as a co-host, you could also put her as the host and just have it shipped in c/o to you.

 

[crystalscookingnow]

If you wanted to charge the customers from the show (not your open house) the sales tax for their area, you can do that in PP. When you are entering the order, you will see a button for 'Special Tax' next to the Sales Tax Total. If you click that, you can enter the special tax for the customer & then select 'Use Special Tax'. That way they will only be charged the tax % for where they're located. The tax should be calculated based on where the items are being sold. So, they were technically sold at the hostess' location. I would put her as the co-host just for business purposes. In case you were to get audited or something, you could be able to show that those orders were sold through her.

Or, create one large individual order & send it to your order, then do the same for your open house.

 

[tlennhoff]

Putting her in as co-host is an excellent idea. This will also get her the 10% PHD and book her for a 2nd show - maybe she'd be more successful the 2nd time and if she does it withing 6 months of the 1st she'd be able to get 2 host specials.