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!
Learn bookkeeping basics for your handmade or creative business from a handmade business owner and professional bookkeeper with 30+ years of experience.
It seems that when it comes to handmade or creative businesses everyone offers up all kinds of advice on:
Few people talk about the behind the scenes stuff – like setting up and using a system to track your financial information.
If they do, it’s either more of a passing thought, like:
Oh, you need to keep track of your finances
OR, the information that they do offer about bookkeeping is JUST PLAIN WRONG, like:
Including the sales tax you collect is included in your income!
OR, they offer you a free downloadable spreadsheet – but don’t tell you HOW to use it!
Sure, these people mean well – but they just have NO BUSINESS offering bookkeeping advice, because they aren’t bookkeepers!
This means that, potentially, you could run into a LOT of trouble.
I’m here to change that.
It’s my goal to help you handle all of your bookkeeping tasks with confidence.
Bookkeeping for designers is very different than for product makers – especially when it comes to keeping track of the cost to design a knit or crochet pattern. Designers have SO MANY questions: If so, the Bookkeeping for Designers – Free Training session is for you! How to sign-up for the free training: Once 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.
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 …
Revenue and Profit are two totally different things in your handmade business. Don’t get confused between these two terms. To get straight to the point. Revenue is the money you make by selling your finished items or patterns. Profit is what’s left after paying your expenses. Many handmade business owners get totally confused by the …
Finished items inventory is this weeks topic. If you’ve been wondering how to track your inventory of finished items using spreadsheets, I’ll teach you how in this blog post. Keeping track of inventory is tough. There are so many moving pieces that you need to keep track of. Materials and supplies that you buy and …
The results for the quiz asking if your bookkeeping needs are simple or complex ARE IN!!!!!!! Are you excited? I’m so excited to share the results with you. In case you missed last weeks blog post, which was a Quiz: Your handmade business bookkeeping – Is it simple or complex. If you missed it, you …