Often yes — and for longer than most vendors will tell you.
Often yes. If your stock is manageable and you know it by heart, if you sell mainly on the premises and keep the list alone, there is little reason to change. The tipping point is not a number of pieces, but the moment your photos become more important than your descriptions.
A spreadsheet can do everything the law asks. The problem is not what it can do, but what happens as stock grows: the description sits in column C, the photo in a folder on your phone, and every question means assembling two things.
It usually tips on one of four: the photos matter more than the description, a second person joins, you start selling online, or the VAT return becomes detective work. As long as none of those four applies, switching is time you never get back.
Written on 9 September 2026. This answer describes a way of working, not a legal obligation: it contains no VAT rule, no rate and no deadline. What you must keep by law does differ per country — that is on the stock list page, with the source and check date per country.
This is an explanation, not tax or legal advice. Put your own situation to your accountant.
Usually not well. Ordinary stock software is built around an article number with a quantity behind it, a reorder point and a minimum stock level. With unique pieces the quantity is always one, there is nothing to reorder, and a minimum stock has no meaning.
Per piece. What you record is its own number, a photo, the purchase price and the date it came in. Those four together replace what an article number with a stock count does for series. Everything you want to know afterwards — your margin, your time to sell, your buying rate — follows from those four.
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.
Free up to 10 pieces, no card number and no end date.