Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
It’s been a crazy busy time around here………… not just here in my own little world – but everywhere! As a business owner, the last quarter of the year is always crazy busy. There’s so much to do in that last quarter and we feel the pressure from everywhere and from all the “business coaches” …
Negative thoughts about the bookkeeping for your handmade business will keep you stuck! Learn about 6 common negative thoughts about bookkeeping and how to overcome them. Bookkeeping isn’t sexy or glamourous – and everyone can come up with a bazillion excuses (oops, I meant REASONS) to avoid doing their bookkeeping. The more times that you …
Tracking pattern sales in QuickBooks provides you with critical information about your pattern sales.
Tracking pattern sales using Wave Accounting can help you so you can figure out where to focus your knit or crochet pattern designing efforts. This tip provides you with step-by-step instructions and a short how-to video for setting up and using Wave Accounting to track your pattern sales. What is Wave Accounting? Wave Accounting is …
In this post I talked about the importance of “owning your sales information” so you can focus your pattern design and marketing efforts on patterns and platforms that generate the most revenue for you by tracking your pattern sales in spreadsheets.
Tracking sales at craft fairs can be totally overwhelming – especially if you’re trying to do EVERYTHING by yourself! Here’s a tip for something I do, that helps me when tracking sales at craft fairs and makes my bookkeeping easier!
Do you use PayPal? Sell on Etsy? If you do, say hello to the 1099-K! There are big changes ahead because the IRS and State governments don’t want you to forget about their share of your sales. All you handmade, creative, and craft business owners who: sell finished items, digital patterns, or services on places …
How to categorize craft business expenses is really pretty simple. By the time you finish reading this post you’ll be ready to tackle the task at hand. Categorizing craft business expenses can be totally overwhelming and confusing for new handmade, creative or craft business owners. Heck, even some of us who’ve had a handmade business …