What you need to open a store: documents and equipment

Once you decided to do your own business. The dream of having a store always inspires hopes for commercial success and implementation of plans. When it comes true, the question arises about what it takes to open a store, what documents and equipment will be needed, so that everything will work properly. This article will help you understand these details.

Before entering into a lease agreement for a future trading department, you should consider whether the store's location is optimal for attendance and the availability of a target group of consumers. Of course, the place should be comfortable, spacious, with good lighting. Having solved these questions, you need to be patient and follow a certain sequence of actions:

• Issue authorization documents ;
• To think over the planning of the store in the form of an electronic project, which includes all aspects of the activity of the trading object;
• To accept reception of employees for work;
• Train employees;
• Place trading equipment for a store, equipment (computers, lighting);
• Install software (accounting system, antivirus programs, etc.);
• Place video surveillance systems, burglar alarms, fire fighting equipment;
• Fill the store with goods for sale;
• Place advertising signs;
• Inform customers about the opening.

The required package of permits depends on the form of ownership of the trading organization (LLC, CJSC, JSC), whether the place is leased or bought, and also from the lines of business.

The first thing you need to open a store is registration with the tax service attached to the registered person's location. According to the law "On state registration of legal entities" (art. 12), the executive body should hand over:

1. An application stating that the registration was completed in the form established by the Government of the Russian Federation with the signature of the applicant.
2. A protocol, contract or other document that is a decision to establish a legal entity.
3. Constitutive acts of a legal entity (notarized copies or originals).
4. Act confirming the legal status of an alien in the form of an extract from the register of foreign legal entities.
5. Receipt for payment of state duty.

The eighth article of this law informs that the registration is given up to five working days (from the date of submission of data to the registering authority). The options for providing documentation are described in the ninth article.

If you are planning to work in Moscow, then study what is needed to open a store in the Moscow City Government's resolution "On the Trade Register of Moscow" dated 27.03.01: all organizations of wholesale and retail trade, catering should be entered in the Commercial Register of Moscow and Obtain the appropriate certificate. For this procedure, it is necessary to provide: an application for entering into the Commercial Register (in it to indicate the type of trade enterprise, the direction of trade, product range or list of services, area), a copy of the registration certificate, lease agreement or ownership certificate and others.

When the assortment of products will be determined, it will be necessary to pass certification of goods in accordance with the Law of the Russian Federation "On certification of products and services." In addition, you will have to visit the sanitary epidemiological inspection and the fire department. And that's not all you need to open a store. Remained equipment.

Trade equipment for a children's store should not only meet all the security conditions, which are high demands, but also harmoniously fit into the design of the premises. If the room is small, then simple racks and counters are perfect. For large areas, choose wall racks. You should use open storefronts, so that children can touch the toys, they had the opportunity to better consider them. This significantly increases the level of sales.