Comments on: Jewelry Accounting https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/jewelry-accounting/ free jewelry tutorials, plus a friendly community sharing creative ideas for making and selling jewelry. Mon, 03 Oct 2016 01:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.15 By: Rena Klingenberg https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/jewelry-accounting/#comment-480170 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 01:34:23 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=46241#comment-480170 In reply to Deborah Blake.

Thanks for asking, Deborah! If you’re using a pencil and notebook system, see the comments below this post: How to Keep Track of the Cost of Goods Sold – you’ll find some excellent tips for keeping good records. 🙂

]]> By: Deborah Blake https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/jewelry-accounting/#comment-480155 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:18:43 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=46241#comment-480155 As a beginner, what would be the cheapest way and program? I’m using a notebook and pencil.

]]> By: Donna Jadis https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/jewelry-accounting/#comment-479544 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:21:59 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=46241#comment-479544 I love Jewelry Designer Manager! It IS a big bother to get it set up, and it can take time to keep it set with entering all purchases and then entering all parts that go into a piece, but it helps me with pricing, customer tracking, accounting for shows and historical record keeping. Barbara Carleton (hope I spelled that right) the owner of JDM, is wonderful, helpful and is continually improving her product(s). Start with a lower level of JDM and I can almost guarantee that you’ll want to upgrade as you get used to using it. (And, really, I’m not on their payroll… I tried several different products even after setting up JDM, and I haven’t found anything that works better for me.)

]]> By: Sarah https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/jewelry-accounting/#comment-478086 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:31:44 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=46241#comment-478086 I use BeadManagerPro and really like it. It’s a real bore to enter in all your stock at the beginning, but once you’ve done it it really pays off. It’s v good to keep track of inventory and to price up finished work – it works out your hourly rate to include things like depreciation and marketing costs as well as your time. I’d say that’s the biggest plus – working out what a wholesale/retail price should be. (Of course, you can adjust it to whatever % you want). You can also use it to produce catalogues and line sheets for selling to retailers. There are other functions, but I don’t use them. They’ve also been really quick to answer queries. The other point is to look at what computer system you use – I use a mac, but some programmes don’t work with them.

]]> By: MyCarolAnne Artisan Jewelry https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/jewelry-accounting/#comment-476748 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:46:21 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=46241#comment-476748 CraftMaker Pro is a very good software to keep track of your inventory and images. I have not had the time to put it to its complete use, but I have experimented with it and have found it to do a great deal.

]]> By: SeaBea https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/jewelry-accounting/#comment-476573 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:53:18 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=46241#comment-476573 I use Jewelry Designer Manager and it really helps me be more organized with the record keeping. I don’t by any means push this program to its limits. I just do the basic functions. The hardest part is being responsible about entering new things as soon as I have them. You don’t want to get behind on entering your data or it can get overwhelming or you could accidently omit to enter something.

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