Nearly 30 Years of Helping Stores to Grow and Thrive

The History of Moneywell starts with the vision of Bill Greer. It is a web-based, Software-as-a-Service program that originates, tracks and reports transactions common to pawn shops, thrift and consignment stores, metal buyers, scrap yards and gun shows, etc. No special hardware or software is needed and since no contract is involved, the number of cash drawers and stores determines the monthly usage fee. Today, the Moneywell pawnshop software program serves businesses in 14 U.S. states and Canada.

Moneywell is the result of Bill Greer’s behind-the-counter pawn shop experience and 30 years of computer programming knowledge that began after graduation from Western State University in Gunnison, Colorado. He returned to Colorado Springs and joined CompuMart, Inc. as a programmer. In that role, he customized accounting programs for small businesses around the same time as the Apple II personal computer was launched.

At that point, Bill purchased his first computer and began writing computer programs for clients. In 1985, he wrote one for a local chain of pawn shops to automate the processes of hand-writing pawn tickets and manually reporting them to the Colorado Springs Police Department. Among other efficiencies, labor costs were immediately reduced by 50 percent.

He also wrote a computerized system for tracking student grades and attendance for a nearby elementary school, which continues to be used today. Later, he sold computer workstations and servers to businesses across Colorado as a reseller of products from Novell, a software and services company. Client projects during this time included maintaining the computer network for a municipal utility department and writing docket management software for a local city’s court system. He also developed websites across the MCI, Inc. enterprise.

In 2002, he established Data Link, Inc. to offer a range of Internet services, including domain registration, domain management, website hosting and email hosting. A few years later, he updated the code for his pawn shop program to make it accessible on the web via a browser. “Bill’s pawn shop program” was re-branded as “Moneywell” in 2013 after years of being known as either the “DL Pawn” program, “Transaction Link,” or “Version 3.”

Today, Moneywell leverages cloud redundancies and can be accessed using either a desktop computer, laptop or tablet. Data Link, Inc. also has expanded its service offerings to include a suite of website-related services and business loans for established Moneywell customers.

Bill lives with his teenage son in Colorado Springs. He enjoys tending to his backyard vegetable garden and playing racquetball.