Vintro Pro
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Vintro Pro
NL · FR · EN
Legally no. Practically, with unique pieces, it is the difference between finding and searching.
The record-keeping duty in none of the four countries asks for a photo: what is asked is a description, the date, the price and the seller. But with unique pieces a description in words is rarely enough to find one among three hundred — and that is exactly what an inspection or a customer question asks you to do.
What the register asks, in all four countries
Asked
Not asked
A photo next to the purchase price turns a row in a list into a file: this piece, this price, this provenance. Without it the description sits in column C and the image in a folder on your phone, and every question means assembling two things.
A row in a list, or a file
Without a photo
Two things to assembleThe description sits in column C, the image in a folder on your phone.With a photo
One fileThis piece, this price, this provenance.There is a second reason. If you sell online you need those images anyway — and a photo taken at purchase shows the condition of the piece before restoration.
Then applying the margin scheme correctly becomes difficult or impossible. The scheme taxes the difference between purchase and sale. According to the Belgian FPS Finance, without proof of the purchase price the margin cannot be established, and the full selling price is taxed. In the UK, HMRC says so in as many words.
Adding a piece is taking a photo and filling in three fields; the rest can wait. Publish the piece and it appears on the marketplace with its own address, so you can forward or share that link. Marking it sold takes it off the marketplace by itself, without you losing the row.
Vintro Pro keeps, per piece, what you paid, when, and where it came from. Your stock list and your margin VAT build themselves while you work.
30 days free, no card number.