Inventory, manufacturing process, business success topics for small DTC manufacturers.
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Most bookkeeping tools are built for service businesses. Here's how to find one that actually works when you're making and selling physical products.
Thinking of setting up a spreadsheet to track your handmade inventory? Before you do, read this. Spreadsheets feel like the obvious choice — until they're not.
Inventory tracking is not just about manually counting your products and ingredients once every year - it can be so much more than this and can have massive benefits to your cake making business.
This guide shows you exactly how you can better manage your inventory and stock levels on Etsy.
If you store your inventory and product samples at home in a dedicated location, you should be eligible to claim for business use of this space without needing to meet the usual "exclusive use" test.
As a maker, one of the first things to realise is that you are not just a retailer of your goods - you are also a manufacturer of them. Why does this matter? Well for starters, it changes everything about the way you need to report your end of year revenue and expenses to the IRS.
We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each inventory valuation method, showing you the best one to use for your manufacturing business situation.
We show you why it's important to know the difference between your indirect and direct expenses when running a craft business.
The IRS doesn't care how small you are. If you make products from raw materials, you're required to track inventory. Here's what Publication 334 says — and the best way to keep track of inventory for your small business.
We discuss inventory shrinkage and how you can better manage inventory loss as part of your manufacturing process.
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We cover the need-to-knows of getting started with record keeping for your craft business.
Most inventory scanning advice assumes you have $500 to spend on a dedicated scanner. You probably don't. Here's how makers use QR codes — and when NFC tags make more sense — to track materials and products with nothing but a phone.
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