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Most of the resellers I know track things in a mix of spreadsheets, notes apps, and memory. Cost of goods gets written down, maybe. Gas never does. Sales tax and the $40 of packing supplies from last month usually get forgotten. So the number everyone quotes at the end of the month is revenue, not profit. I spent the last year building an app to fix that for myself, and it's on the App Store now. It's called Sourcerer. Here's what it does in practice: Planning a sourcing day. A map shows thrift, vintage, flea, pawn, and consignment stores near you, with categories for what each store actually sells (based on what you and other users have bought there, not just the Google label). Estate and garage sales show up on the same map. You can build a trip from a few pins and get a route. During the trip. You start a trip, log mileage, and add items as you buy them. Each item takes a cost, an estimated resale price, and a photo if you want one. Buying three of the same mug is one entry with a quantity. Receipts can be scanned so you don't type prices in by hand. Where it gets useful. Gas for the trip, plus any expenses you attach to it (parking, tolls, lunch), get spread across the items you bought on that trip. So every item carries its real landed cost, not just the sticker price. When something sells, ROI is calculated against that. Selling. You can mark an item sold with a price in two taps, or build a proper multi-item sale with tax and generate a PDF invoice for the buyer. Refunds put the item back into inventory while keeping the original sale on record, so your history doesn't get rewritten. Local sales. There's a community board inside the app where you can post items from your inventory for local meetup. People can message you and tap "interested" to get your pickup area. No payments go through the app and there's no shipping, it's just a way to move stuff locally without re-entering it somewhere else. The analytics tab is the whole point. Revenue, cost, tax, gas, expenses, and the resulting true profit for any date range. Breakdowns by category too, which is how I found out my media flips were barely covering their own gas. A few honest caveats: iPhone only right now. There's a 7-day free trial and after that it's $10/month or $100/year, since the maps and store data cost me money to run. Store coverage is nationwide but richest around Houston, where I started it. I'd genuinely like to hear what's missing or what feels off. The people on this sub flip a lot more volume than I do, so if you try it and something annoys you, tell me and I'll fix it. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780601247   submitted by   /u/Inchardware [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/4 07:25:23