<prompt> Human: Hi, everyone! Im a long time lurker of the sub, but when this came up I thought of you guys first. So, to start, my wife and I are both in the education field, but are trying to look into other avenues for employment other than teaching. We started this small in home business, if you can even call it that, last year around Christmas. My wife is quite crafty and she makes these felt Christmas trees for kids to play with. Last year we sold around 20 to friends and family for 20 cash, and had a few out of state orders that we charged 25 with shipping for. We started a Facebook page that centers more around our philosophy of learning rather than actually selling things, but we do sell a handful of items from time to time. Anyways, yesterday my wife decided to open up a pre-order sale on the trees to see how much interest we had. We posted the link on a few other FB pages, but didnt pay to advertise or anything. By last night we had almost 200 orders at 28.50 a piece with about 10 more coming in every hour! we are not equipped to handle this kind of volume, but I do have a little background in business and management, so I have some ideas as to where I should start. Our dream is to have an educational organization that sells products, holds classes for kids, holds seminars, lobbies for education, and maybe even a schoolcenter some day. I would like to parlay this into getting our organization off the ground, but I dont know where to start? I think in the future we would be more of an NGO rather than a non-profit, but Im not sure of all of the differences. We dont expect to get rich, but this will need to pay or basic expenses if we do it full time. Do I need to set up a separate PayPal, bank acct., PO Box, etc. today? I need to get invoices out so I dont lose sales, but can I do this from my personal account? Is there a better way to send invoices? Also, a big thing is taxes. If all of our money comes in through PayPal what kind of recording do we need to do? Are expenses deductible? I guess my questions are numbering and rather broad, but I need to start making quick decisions and there isnt a lot of great info that I find reliable. Thanks for any help and feel free to PM me!  <response>: Make sure you take a step back and slow down. You went from 200 orders of a felt Christmas tree to operating an NGO in one sentence. 