Practical guides on fuel reconciliation, tax strategies, and store-side margins, written by the team that does this every day.
Profitability & Revenue
A car wash can be the highest-margin line on your site or a quiet drain. Here is how to track its revenue, direct costs...
Profitability & Revenue
Card fees take a big share of a fuel margin, so many owners look at surcharging or cash pricing. The two are not the sam...
Profitability & Revenue
Break-even tells you the monthly gallons and store sales you must reach before you earn a dollar of profit. A worked exa...
Profitability & Revenue
The cost to open a gas station ranges from a few hundred thousand dollars to well over ten million, depending on the rou...
Profitability & Revenue
There is no single price. Cost depends on what you need done, how many stores and transactions you have, and how clean y...
Profitability & Revenue
Card fees are a percentage of the whole sale, while your fuel margin is cents per gallon. That mismatch is why fees take...
Profitability & Revenue
SBA-backed loans are one of the most common ways to buy a gas station. Here is how 7(a) and 504 loans differ, what lende...
Profitability & Revenue
Buyers pay for numbers they can trust. Selling a gas station well means clean books, clear tank records and a price you...
Profitability & Revenue
A gas station business plan has to show lenders how fuel, the store and your costs fit together. Use this template to bu...
Profitability & Revenue
You do not need a 40-line report. Ten numbers, reviewed in the same order every month, tell you whether fuel, the store...
Profitability & Revenue
A typical US gas station sells a few thousand gallons a day, but the range between a quiet rural site and a busy highway...
Profitability & Revenue
Tobacco margins are 15-20%. Prepared food hits 40-60%. If you are not tracking margins by category, you cannot see which...
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