12. Managing Your Inventory

One of the challenges of selling online is keeping track of what you have available to sell. In business terms, that means managing your inventory—making sure that what you promote on a given marketplace or website actually exists and can be shipped to customers.

Inventory management doesn’t have to be difficult, although there are some issues unique to craft sellers—such as your ability to make more of what you offer and the challenge of selling the same stuff across multiple sites. But those issues are easily dealt with if you’re somewhat organized, as you’ll soon learn.

How to Manage Your Craft Inventory

To sell online, you have to have merchandise available to sell. Now, given that you handcraft everything you ...

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