From Excel to a consignment system – without switching tills
Spreadsheets die when sellers multiply. How to move customers, items and balances into a consignment system and keep Zettle.
💡Key takeaways
- ✓Excel dies when payouts and status cannot keep up on Saturday
- ✓Move sellers, items and balances – keep the till you have
- ✓Migration is included so you do not lose a trading day
- ✓Put a sales period on what already hangs, so unsold gets a decision
Most consignment shops start in Excel. That is honest. Five sellers, a sold column, a paid column. Then Saturday arrives with three bags and a contact list in someone’s phone.
The spreadsheet is no longer a system. It is a risk. Wrong split. Double payout. A jacket that “sold” at the till but never landed on the right row.
You do not need to switch tills to stop that. You need to move ownership in.
When Excel stops being enough
Signs you already know:
- Payout is an evening job at the internet bank
- Sellers call because you cannot update status in time
- Unsold sits in a pile because nobody owns the list
- One person on staff is the only one who “understands the file”
- You stop taking more goods because admin does not scale
That is what a consignment POS is for – not more columns.
What to bring in the move
A consignment system is empty until it has your data:
- Sellers: name, contact, bank or Swish if you have it
- Items for sale, with price and commission
- Balances already earned but not withdrawn
- What is unsold and how old each item is
You do not have to clean the file first. Send what you have: Excel, a cash book, an export, even a phone contact list. We load it before you sell in the new chain. The move is included, at no extra cost.
The goal is that you do not lose a Saturday. Same terminal. Same acquiring. A new place where every item knows who it belongs to.
Keep the till
Switching POS at the same time as you move consignment is two projects. Do one.
Zettle or Express Retail keeps taking payment. Serculate takes the Excel job: registration, labels, portal, Swish, reports for bookkeeping. When something sells, the money is already split.
The first week after the move
Register new bags in the system, not the sheet. Ask the most active sellers to log in to the portal. Make a payout on the usual day so the balances check out.
Put a sales period on what is already hanging, so unsold becomes a decision instead of a surprise in three months.
Serculate is free until you sell. Then SEK 699/month, the same price at ten items or a thousand. No lock-in.
Tell us about the shop. Send the file. We move it in.
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