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Notes from building Intakes: the costing problems resellers and makers actually have, and what we did about them.
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How to track the true cost of a storage unit (or pallet, or estate lot)
One price for a pile of unknown stuff, sold a piece at a time over weeks. Why every common way of costing a mixed lot goes wrong somewhere, what a sound method has to do, and how Intakes handles it.
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Knowing what your handmade product really costs: recipes, materials, and the number tax season asks for
Soap, candles, sewn goods, small-batch anything — the cost of one unit is the number every maker needs and few have. How a spreadsheet and Stocksmith (formerly Craftybase) handle it, and how Intakes does.
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Tracking a reseller business: the spreadsheet, the crosslister, the bookkeeping app, and what each one cannot tell you
Most resellers run on a spreadsheet plus one or two apps. Here is what each is actually for, where the cost numbers fall through the cracks, and what Intakes does differently.
Looking for what changed in the product, release by release? That is the changelog. The evergreen explanations of how Intakes models things are the concepts.