@stylesilver wrote:
I would love to be able to do that but I'm not that good on the computer side of things- I'd probably get them mixed up. When you've got 12 different Heart necklaces, or Arrow necklaces & 30 different Pearl necklaces etc the only way I can identify the different ones is by photos. I might look at the My Selling/ versus Selling Manager sections to see if I can find a good way there from keeping them separate there! Thanks
I've never used anything except My Selling so I've only ever seen the unsold stuff that needs to be relisted in Unsold. Anything I've sold is in a separate section - obviously called Sold.
Do you store similar items together? It would help if you give every different item a number and put it in your listing so you know exactly which one it was. For example, if you have 12 different heart necklaces you could call them H1, H2, H3, up to H12. If you make a new one call it H13. Label your photos when you do them and label the corresponding item.
I don't know how you store them but say you put them in open envelopes in a shallow box, you could write the number on the envelope and it wouldn't matter if you can't see what's inside. If the envelope is open at the top you could easily glance in if you need to.
When H7 sells, if you have this code number in the listing all you need to do is go to your box and pick out the envelope with H7 on it, then you double check it against the picture in the listing. If there are more envelopes with the same number on them then you'll know you need to relist it and you can either put a note against it in your sold list, or you can relist it on the spot (schedule it if you have no spare free listings).
For necklaces that have a pearl and are heart shaped, you could use a combination of letters and number, eg. HP1, always keeping to the same format. One example of this would be to always have the shape first and the components second, as I've done here. I don't know how feasible this is but you may be able to get some ideas of your own from it. If your items are suitable for storing in small envelopes kept upright in a shallow box (eg. shoe box), you could label the boxes with what's in them and it'd be easier to find them when they sell, plus you could see at a glance how much you've got of each type of stock.
I have a number on each of my items. The next item I buy gets the next number, regardless of what it is, but I stack them on the shelves according to theme. When they sell I only have to go through the shelves that have that theme stored on it. My items are bulkier than yours but it works on the same principle as keeping hearts together, arrows together, etc.
Some records are just as quick to do by hand as on the computer so don't worry too much about that. The main thing I do on the computer is sort my pictures into folders. When I number them I also put a couple of words as a description so that I can easily search and find them by keywords (in your case pearl, arrow, etc).
Something else I do is to shift pictures of sold items into a subfolder on my computer. If you plan on making more the same you could either leave the pictures where they are or shift them back to the main folder AFTER you replenish your stock.
