Studkeep

One stock for BrickLink, Brick Owl and your own shop

You decide where each lot is for sale: everywhere, or only on some stores. Studkeep keeps a single inventory up to date. When a lot sells on one store, the quantity drops on the others, with nothing to copy by hand.

Coming later: adding parts from a photo. See how

Why I'm building Studkeep

I sell parts on BrickLink myself. As soon as you open a second store, you have to keep track of which lot is listed where and report every sale by hand, or you end up selling the same part twice. Tools that do this exist, but they're mostly aimed at large stores and priced accordingly.

So I built my own, for stores from a few hundred to around ten thousand lots. It already runs on my store, and I'm now looking for a few sellers to try it with me.

What it does

  • You choose where each lot is listed. On all your stores, or only on one or two.
  • The stock is shared. A sale on one store lowers the quantity everywhere that lot is listed.
  • Orders land in a single list, whatever the store, with the storage location of each part to pick.
  • It suggests prices from BrickLink's Price Guide. You have the final say.
  • It compares your stores and shows what differs: quantities, prices, lots missing on one side.
  • It starts from what you already have: your BrickLink store, your BrickStore (.bsx) files or a spreadsheet.
  • It sends nothing without your OK. Every change is listed before it's applied, and you can start in read-only mode.

Supported stores: BrickLink, Brick Owl, Shopify, WooCommerce and CSV files. eBay comes next.

An interface that fits your store

Every seller works differently. Studkeep doesn't force one screen on you: you set it up the way you work.

  • Windows you arrange yourself. On a large screen, open the inventory, orders and prices side by side. Move them, resize them, pop one out, or open two inventories at once.
  • Saved layouts. Four come ready (overview, adding parts, pricing, orders), and you can save your own.
  • Your own pricing rules. "If… then…", in the order you choose, with spreadsheet-style formulas: start from the last six months of sales, apply your margin, set a floor, round. Every price can be traced rule by rule.
  • Settings per store, such as each platform's commission.
  • On a phone, one page at a time, handy for picking an order in front of your bins.

In the works: recognizing parts from a photo

The slowest part of selling parts is adding them: finding the part number, the color, then creating the lot. I'm working on a tool that does this from a picture.

You hold a part up to the camera. The tool suggests the most likely BrickLink part numbers for its shape, Studkeep measures its color, and you confirm before the lot is created.

I'm training it right now, on 3D renders of almost every part and on real photos taken while I sort. Beta testers will be able to try it as soon as it's reliable enough.

The beta

I'll open it to a small number of sellers first. It will be free. In return, I'd like to hear what helps you, what gets in your way and what's missing.

Questions? Write to me at [email protected].