Just wondering if anyone has used, or knows of some decent, easy to use, software for logging and tracking money in and money out in business?
One of my hobbies is silversmithing (http://www.etsy.com/shop/madebychris) - and it's starting to bug me that I don't have better records of money in and out. When I make something I know roughly the amount of materials and the cost of them, and I can pre-empt the listing/selling fees and postage on the internet, but it's all getting a little muddled up.
I'm looking for something that I could enter a "product", which would contain several costs (materials, time, listing fees, postage) that I can enter, date, and then add a price and date when sold.
Everything I've seen so far it's more just single items, not composite items.
you're best off just doing it in excel
all of the pro-software is too expensive
and most of the free software won't do what you want (or do it well anyway)
1st column is description (product, material, cost etc..)
2nd column is debt
3rd column is credit
4th is a running total
just stick a few lines gap in between different products to separate them out ;)
I thought of doing that, but hoped there'd be a little "cleaner" way of doing it. Thanks.
i would personally use a spreadsheet for something like that.
As you buy more materials by weight, you can add it to current materials & work out the average price paid.
Then once crafted, you can weight it again to see how much material you used based on the average price.
You could always tie it into a database of completed pieces so you get a rough idea how much the item was if you needed to make another