One of the methods to make your hand-crafted jewelry or bead business more successful is by instituting a degree of control and order over your beading supply and clients so that you know precisely how much you’re spending in supplies and you can price your jewelry correctly. By keeping track of how much you spend on your beads you can use specially developed bead jewelry software package to not only automatically figure out your cost-per-bead for you but you can also keep track of bead income and always be aware of where you’re getting the cheapest jewelry supplies from! There are lots of jewelry small business computer software programs available on the market, but only a few of them are custom tailored to the inventory hassles and nature of making handmade jewelry. Some are very pricey and have lots of features and some are very inexpensive but lack some basic capabilities. Always try to see screen shots or, even better, a demonstration online video to get a feel for how the software program works ahead of time. Here are a few functions you’ll definitely need to have in any software program you purchase to manage your home made jewelry business:
Capability to Track Stock and Jewelry Supplies: Your software program should be able to keep track of free beads and materials as well as created pieces if possible. It takes a little bit of time to enter all your existing stock at first, but then it is a breeze and it saves you so much time in the long run when you find yourself wondering whether or not you still have a certain type of bead that you can’t locate at the moment. This is naturally the most important characteristic so that you can keep a record of what you have, what you require and what you are out of.
Hand made Jewelry Costs Calculator: No more estimating at costs! If you have all your bead stock in the software program then you should be capable of list out all the beads you used in a certain jewelry pieces and the software should give you an instant price of goods and even come up with some recommendations on pricing. So if you used 30 Swarovski crystal bicone beads, 1 glass handmade ring and 22 silver bali beads you would key in those numbers into the software and it would immediately tell you how much you spent on beads for that piece.
Capability to Store Photographs of Your Jewelry Pieces: Any good software program will permit you to store photographs of your beads and creations so that you can go back and research them. It might even help in jewelry restoration if a bead is lost and you want to see if you can find a specific type of bead without actually seeing the bead directly.
Now that you are aware of what to look for you may need to read some reviews of the various jewelry software available at this time. Those are the minimal elements you should be searching for when you go seeking at buying a jewelry software for your business.
Want to learn about other capabilities you should have in your jewelry business software? You can read over 120 articles about running your own handmade jewelry business at the Bead Jewelry Blog.