For an antiques and vintage dealer, the real work is not just buying and selling. Just as demanding is everything that follows: tracking stock, making invoices, preparing export documents, working out margins and, at year end, arriving at the right stock value.
Free up to 10 pieces, no credit card needed.
For Jerome Leadlay of Jerome Leadlay Antiques, that paperwork grew into an ever bigger problem as the stock grew.
Every piece is unique. A classic stock list works while there are few items, but quickly becomes unmanageable with hundreds or thousands of one-off objects. It became ever harder to know at any moment:
International sales brought extra paperwork. For export, this information had to be correct and at hand:
When that information is spread across spreadsheets, documents and e-mails, pulling it together takes a lot of time.
After a sale, the same information had to be entered again: item details already in the stock had to be processed once more for the invoice. That meant:
Much of the trade is international, so prices regularly had to be converted. Done by hand, that risks:
For many antiques and vintage dealers the margin scheme is a necessary but complex part of the paperwork. For each piece it must be clear:
At the end of the period, everything has to be ready for the VAT records.
At every year end the same question came back: what is the stock worth right now? With data spread across several systems, that takes a lot of checking and searching.
With Vintro Pro, each piece is registered once. The data stays in one place and is reused for:
The biggest gain was not a nicer stock list, but bringing several business processes together in one system. What used to be spread across files and documents became one way of working. That brought:
“Before I used Vintro Pro, the big problem was the hours of admin. I created every product again and again: for the invoice, for customs, for stock management. Now I create a piece once, and the invoice, the customs papers and my stock all take it from there. Those hours are gone — an enormous time saving.”
A British antiques dealer who trades in antiques and vintage as Jerome Leadlay Antiques.
Stock tracking, invoicing, export documents, commodity codes, margin VAT and stock valuation.
No. Each piece is registered once, and that data is reused for stock, invoice and export.
Free up to 10 items, with no end date. No credit card needed to start, and you can stop at any time.