Guides
Guides
What you need in order to bill correctly, explained with real numbers rather than theory.
Reviewed August 2026
A consignment spreadsheet, and where it breaks
The columns a consignment sheet needs, why the obvious layout bills the wrong amount, and the three points at which a spreadsheet stops coping.
What is inside
- 1The layout
- 2The mistake the layout is designed to prevent
- 3Where it breaks
- 4If you are staying on the sheet
Reviewed August 2026
Consignment or wholesale: which one to offer
Wholesale pays on delivery, consignment pays on what sold. The difference is who carries the risk — and what each is worth once you count the trips.
What is inside
- 1What each one costs you
- 2The cost nobody counts
- 3Who should be on which
- 4What to actually do
Reviewed August 2026
Is selling on consignment actually worth it?
Whether a consignment shop earns you anything, worked out from sell-through, the cost of the counting trip, and the stock sitting on their shelf.
What is inside
- 1The break-even, in one division
- 2Cost one: the trip that sells nothing
- 3Cost two: your stock, on their shelf
- 4The six-visit test
- 5When the answer is clearly yes
- 6When it is clearly no
Reviewed August 2026
What consignment selling is, and how the bill works
The shop pays for what sold, not for what you dropped off. How consignment works, how the amount owed is calculated, and where most people get it wrong.
What is inside
- 1The sum
- 2What you deliver today is not part of it
- 3Replacements are never charged
- 4How much to leave
- 5When to move a shop to direct
Why trust this
Built on a real round, and checkable
Artisanly came out of a cookie round in Mexico, written by the people who drive it. The promises below are not marketing lines — each one is enforced somewhere you could go and read.
A stockist's address is never published
The public where-to-buy page shows shop name and town. No street address, no coordinates, no map link. The three keys it may print are pinned in code and asserted in tests, because a stockist did not agree to be listed.
A driver sees only their own shops
Enforced by the database, not by hidden buttons. Another partner's shop does not appear even if somebody guesses the address, and an audit walks every table to prove no route around it was left open.
Both sides agree before you drive off
The count is taken in the shop and the receipt is printed there. The bill is not something reconstructed from memory at home and sent three weeks later.
Nothing to pay to find out
Signing up asks for an email and a password. Free under 25 stores, no card, no trial clock, and no features switched off — the free tier is the whole product.
Start with one shop
The sum works the same with one as with fifty. Add the rest whenever you like.
Free under 25 stores. No card to start.