Spreadsheet or app for reselling inventory?

Ask any reselling group and the consensus is the same: a spreadsheet does this for free. On the maths, that’s right. Any cost split, any margin, any report you’re willing to build, a sheet will hold it.

What it won’t do is look. Photograph a pile of finds and a sheet gives you a photo, not eight named items.

The rest is what it costs you to keep up. A sheet wants you at a keyboard with a free evening, typing every line yourself. ItemLogue reads the receipt in the checkout line and has the haul itemised before you’re home.

Same arithmetic either way. Your evening goes back to your hobby, your family, or the next sourcing trip.

A lot of resellers are juggling a job, sometimes two, and family responsibilities on top, and that hour at the desk has to come out of something else. Others have the hour and just don’t want to spend it on a spreadsheet.

For someone that busy, spreadsheet time is hard to find. The sheet holds the numbers just fine, it just never gets fed.

A few weeks in, the last few hauls still aren’t typed up. The P&L you can see is missing all of that, and it still counts an item you returned as inventory, so what it does show isn’t right either.

You get that hour back by photographing the receipt instead of typing it in. It reads the numbers, you don’t have to.

That’s what keeps the books current: you update them as you go, not in a sit-down session with a spreadsheet. And current books are ones you can rely on.

Group by where you bought it, then by category, then tap a number to see the items behind it. No setup, no formulas. What’s actually your best sourcing channel, garage sales, estate sales or marketplace? That one you can answer from the couch.

That’s the loop. Less typing, so the books stay current. Current books show you where the money came from, and that tells you where to go next weekend. Do that a few times and you’re buying more of what actually pays.