Consignment tracking for leather workers
Eight pieces in a boutique are worth more than three hundred loaves. Counting is easy; remembering which one sold is not.
Worth knowing: the app schedules visits weekly, fortnightly or monthly, and nothing slower. The arithmetic is unaffected — it is the same subtraction — but the round will flag a shop before it is genuinely due. If your trade moves at this pace, better to know that before signing up than after.
In leather, consignment is the norm in boutiques and galleries, and the reason is price: nobody buys eight bags at fifteen hundred pesos outright to see whether they sell. The commission is higher too, typically thirty to forty per cent.
The sum, in your numbers
- On the shelf last visit
- 8
- Still there today
- 5
- Sold
- 3
- Price per piece
- MX$1,450
- Owed
- MX$4,350
Leather breaks nearly every assumption the other pages in this section rest on. Nothing expires, nothing spoils, there is no cold chain and there is no hurry. What there is: expensive pieces that move slowly.
Counting is not the problem. Remembering is
With eight pieces in a boutique, nobody needs help counting to eight. The problem is a different one: which of the eight sold. The brown hand-stitched wallet and the plain black one are not worth the same, do not get replaced at the same speed, and do not tell you the same thing about that shop’s customers.
So it is worth carrying each model as its own product rather than one line reading “leather pieces”. The subtraction works the same either way; what changes is that by the third month you know that gallery only moves belts.
The outstanding money is what hurts
MX$4,350
outstanding after one visit
Three pieces, at one thousand four hundred and fifty pesos each, from a shelf holding eight.
In a bakery that figure is weeks of accumulated account. Here it is one visit, to one boutique, with eight pieces on the shelf.
And because the next visit may be months away, this is the trade where the balance is most easily lost track of. Per-shop balances are kept summed at all times, without you having to open anything.
What this app does not do for you
Artisanly’s calendar schedules visits weekly, fortnightly or monthly, and nothing slower. If you restock a gallery every three or four months, the round will flag that shop before it is genuinely due, and you will be dismissing reminders.
The counting and the balances work perfectly at any pace — it is the same subtraction. It is the reminder that is not built for you yet. Better to know that now than a month into paying for it.
Common questions
- I only have eight pieces per shop. Why would I want an app?
- Not for the counting — for the money and the gap. Three pieces sold is four thousand three hundred and fifty pesos outstanding, and three months can pass between one visit and the next.
- Can I set a different commission per shop?
- Yes. Commission is set per shop, which is exactly what this trade needs: a gallery at forty per cent and a neighbourhood shop at twenty-five.