Vintro Pro · for antique dealers

Stock management for antique dealers

Every piece exists only once, with its own provenance, its own purchase price and its own margin. Vintro Pro keeps track of that piece by piece, from purchase to invoice.

An antiques business has no part numbers that come back. It has hundreds of pieces that each exist only once.

Ordinary stock software relies on a supplier who will deliver the same thing tomorrow and on a part number that comes back a hundred times. In the antiques trade neither is true: you buy a cabinet at auction, a dinner service from an estate and a mirror from a colleague — and not one of the three will ever come back.

That is why almost everybody ends up in Excel. It holds until roughly two hundred pieces and then breaks quietly: photographs do not fit in it, two people cannot work in it at the same time, and the purchase invoice sits somewhere other than the line it belongs to. See is Excel enough for your stock?

What it does for an antiques business

  1. One record per piece, with the provenance on it

    Photographs, dimensions, condition, period, purchase price and asking price. Where you bought it and from whom sits right there — which is exactly what a buyer asks for and what your register needs.

  2. A label with a QR code, at a fair as well

    Print to a Zebra or to a portable bluetooth printer, from your phone and without a computer. At an antiques fair you scan that code at the sale instead of copying a number across. More on that in trading at a fair.

  3. Margin VAT, kept up while you work

    Purchase price, costs and sale price sit on the same record, so your margin per piece falls out by itself. Read how the margin scheme works and what your register needs per piece.

  4. Your stock online, in three languages

    Tick a piece and it appears on the marketplace, with a description in Dutch, French and English. Antiques sell across borders, and buyers would rather read their own language.

In the app: your pieces sit under Stock, with the purchase price, the sale price and the provenance on the same record as the photographs. The label and the invoice then read from that one record.

Where it goes wrong without a record per piece

The purchase price is nowhere any moreA piece that stands in the shop for three years changes price in your head. Without a fixed record you end up selling it on instinct, and the margin you think you are making does not match.

The photographs are on the phone, the list is in ExcelAt every sale, every advertisement and every question from an insurer you search again. One record per piece makes that search unnecessary.

Pieces that stop moving go unnoticedWhat has not moved for two years costs space and money. The app shows it, so that you can decide — see dormant stock.

Do you sell across the border?

Then the rules diverge. The Netherlands requires a buyers' register, France a livre de police, the United Kingdom a stock book — and the thresholds above which you become liable for VAT differ sharply. The knowledge base has an article per country, with every figure checked against the government's own source.

What it costs

Free up to ten pieces in stock. No card number, and no trial that runs out. A small shop or a market stall can keep working in it for as long as they like.

Above that it is €19.99 per month excluding VAT, per business — with an unlimited number of pieces and an unlimited number of colleagues. The full pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

What software do antique dealers use for their stock?

Most use Excel or a paper book. Ordinary stock software does not fit, because it relies on part numbers that come back and on suppliers who deliver the same thing again. In the antiques trade every piece exists only once. Vintro Pro was built for that.

Can I bring my existing Excel list across?

Yes. You import your list in one go, with the columns you already have. Whatever is missing you fill in later; you do not have to put everything in order first.

What does Vintro Pro cost?

Free up to ten pieces in stock, with no card number and no end date. Above that it is 19.99 euro per month excluding VAT per business, with an unlimited number of pieces and colleagues.

Are you on the wrong page?

There is a page for every kind of business. They describe the same app, but from the work that you actually do.

Try it with your own pieces

You do not need a card number, and you can keep working in it for free up to ten pieces.

Rather talk it through first? That is fine too — we answer ourselves.