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Inventory and Pricing Software?
Hi all,
I am back with yet another tedious business related question!
Do you use an inventory and pricing software? If so, which one?
I have recently bought the "Jewelry Designer Manager Pro" software and have found it to be very dissappointing. I am wondering if anyone else uses it? I'm sure I've seen postings about it before, but not sure where.
The main problem is that is uses a US pricing formula (and it is really odd!) to price finished jewellery and there is no flexibility to change this. It allows you to override and calculate your own prices, but that kind of defeats the whole object of the software. It basically means that I may as well keep my current Excel spreadsheets with pricing for finished jewellery and in that case there is no reason to have this "glorified inventory system" as I already have that, albeit in a simpler form, also in Excel.
So, my question is, if you use this, how do deal with the odd way of calculating prices for your finished pieces. Or do you use something else?
Would really appreciate people's input on this, I am ready to ask for a refund, but I would really like to be able to sort the problem instead...
Cheers,
Carin
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I'm afraid that as technology and I usually end up falling out, I don't use anything at all sophisticated Carin, so can't help.
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Thanks for replies!
Soo what do you guys use, Excel spreadsheets, pen and paper?
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We use a combo of Excel spreadsheets and Access, but then my OH was a programmer, so has sorted the whole thing out for us. We use a variety of ways of calculating prices, depending on what metal we are using, copper or silver etc, but can override/change the calculation so it suits what we are making. (Hope that makes sense?). Good luck with whatever you choose to do.
We did look at jewellery software, but thought they were overpriced for what they actually do.
Jules
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Similarly, I'm in the process of putting together a database to handle stock, contacts, SOR agreements, invoice issuing etc. Spreadsheets are not databases, although they do seem to end up used as them far too often.
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Hi, I am a novice jeweller - and also happen to write my own business software. I am curious to know what you want from 'inventory and pricing' software, i.e. what are you aiming to get from the software?
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Hi Larry
As a technophobic jeweller
I want a computer to handle all the inventory recording and calculate pricing from raw materials
So that I can get on and make jewellery instead
A textbook use case...
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