Office Supplies
A dealership office runs on paper in a way most businesses no longer do. Deal jackets, repair orders, warranty claims and title work all arrive as physical documents that need filing, bundling and finding again months later. These are the supplies that make that work.
Filing
3-tab file folders are letter size on 11 point stock in nine colours, 1/3 cut in assorted tab positions, 100 per box. The colour options are worth using deliberately: a colour per department or per year turns a drawer into something someone can search without reading every tab.
Reinforced hanging folders in green with 1/5-cut tabs handle standard filing. For anything thick, the box bottom version expands to hold full document packets, which is the one a dealership actually needs for deal files. A standard hanging folder holding a complete deal splits at the fold within a year.
If you run a colour-code system, the File Folder Storage Box is built to archive inactive colour-code folders, and month dividers keep the label ring book ordered January to December. See colour coded filing supplies for the system itself.
Letterhead or Laser Cut Sheets
This is the decision worth thinking about rather than defaulting on.
Custom Letterhead is pre-printed in colour with your dealership's details, produced in our own print shop. It saves toner on every page and looks like what it is: your stationery.
Laser cut sheets in red or blue are 20# white laser paper with a screen-printed design, 8-1/2in x 11in, that you print letters, invoices and customer communications onto. There is also a Thank You design for follow-up correspondence.
The stock designs cost a fraction of custom letterhead and give you colour on the page without a print run or artwork approval. The trade-off is that they carry a generic design rather than your name. For high-volume internal or transactional printing, the stock sheets do the job; for correspondence a customer keeps, custom letterhead earns its price.
Desk Supplies
Writing pads at 5in x 8in in yellow and white, narrow ruled and perforated, 12 pads per pack. The full letter-size canary note pad at 8-1/2in x 11-3/4in in wide rule suits write-ups and longer documentation.
Self-stick notes at 3in x 3in, 100 sheets per pad, 12 per pack.
Bundling and Fastening
Two paper clip sizes worth distinguishing. Non-skid #1 clips at 1-3/8in grip so bundles do not slide apart in a stack, which matters on a desk that gets moved. Jumbo smooth clips at 1-3/4in take the larger document sets a deal file generates.
Small binder clips at 3/4in hold what a paper clip will not, chisel point staples come 25,000 to a pack, and size 54 rubber bands in assorted sizes handle forms and supply bundling by the pound.
Service and Parts Counter
Coin envelopes at 2-1/4in x 3-1/2in, 500 per pack, hold keys, fobs and small parts. A named envelope beats a labelled tray for anything that must not go missing.
Direct thermal paper rolls at 2-1/4in x 85ft fit most thermal receipt and label printers, three rolls per pack.
Markers
7.5mm broad markers and 1.5mm fine point, both fast drying, water resistant, xylene free, low odour and ROHS compliant, in red, blue or black. The low odour and xylene-free specification matters in a closed office; the broad tip suits labelling boxes and parts bins, the fine point suits forms.
Feedback
Suggestion cards at 8-1/2in x 5-1/2in collect anonymous feedback from customers or staff, and are made for the Dealermarket suggestion box.
Paper
20# bright white copy paper at 8-1/2in x 11in for everyday printing and copying. Call us for case pricing if you get through more than a few reams a month.
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