The A&D book keeps itself
An acquisition when the work order opens, a disposition when the customer collects, both through FastBound. When a sync fails you get the real error and a retry, not a silent gap in the book.
Point by point.
- Acquisition on intake
- A firearm crossing the counter into a work order is recorded as an acquisition without anyone having to remember to go and do it.
- Disposition on pickup
- It leaves, the disposition is written. The moment the book needs updating is the moment somebody is already at the screen.
- Both sides of a transfer
- Move an item between two of your licenses and both books are written — a disposition on the sending side, an acquisition on the receiving side — as one tracked transfer.
- 4473 from available items
- Start a 4473 against an item FastBound says is actually available, with machine-gun types flagged, rather than typing a serial into a second system and hoping.
- Dealer receiving
- Firearms arriving from a distributor or another dealer for an end customer get their own intake path, their own status workflow and an NFA flag.
- Driver's license scanning
- The PDF417 barcode on the back of a license fills the customer in — no transcribing an address at the counter with somebody waiting.
How it actually works.
The decisions that matter once you are using it every day rather than looking at it on a slide.
A failure is loud, not silent
A failed sync keeps the real error text and the attempt count, and is flagged for retry. A gap in the book you cannot see is worse than one you can.
The bench doesn't block on FastBound
Intake, the bench and the counter carry on if FastBound is unreachable at that moment. The sync catches up; the shop does not stop.
A nightly reconciliation
A scheduled sync runs against FastBound daily, in incremental or full mode, so drift is found by the system rather than by an inspection.
Credentials are per license, encrypted
FastBound credentials live encrypted against the license they belong to, not in a shared configuration file.
What this is and is not
BenchMaster records to FastBound; FastBound is the electronic A&D book of record and its rules are the ones that apply. This is automation of the entries you would otherwise make by hand — it is not legal advice, not a compliance guarantee, and not a substitute for knowing your own obligations as a licensee.
Come and see it
on a real counter.
Thirty minutes, screen shared, your questions. If BenchMaster is wrong for your shop you will know inside the first ten minutes, and we will both have saved a week.
Talk to the people who use it every day