Tracking Pattern Sales Using QuickBooks (How To)
Tracking pattern sales in QuickBooks provides you with critical information about your pattern sales.
Tracking Pattern Sales Using Wave Accounting (How To)
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 …
Tracking Pattern Sales in Excel or Google Sheets (How To)
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
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!
How to categorize craft business expenses
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 …
How Inventory Works (and Why It Matters) in Your Handmade Business
Learn how inventory works in a handmade business, why your supply stash is money sitting on the shelf, how tracking it reduces stress at tax time, and why a tax pro might say “just expense your purchases”.
(Originally published 12/08/2021 and updated for 2026 for better clarity).
Sales Tax – What Craft Business Owners Need to Know
What craft business owners need to know about sales tax. In a nutshell, Sales Tax nexus happens when your business has some sort of connection to another specific state(s). That connection can be either physical, economic, or both.
Are discounts hurting your craft business?
Some people will tell you that discounts aren’t really good for your craft business, that they devalue your biz and your abilities. Others are of the opinion that sales and promotions work, so why wouldn’t you discount your items?