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Run an online shop

Selling online scatters your records across a marketplace dashboard, a notes app and your memory. This pack keeps the seller's side on paper you control: the listing sheet, the stock count that agrees with it, the packing slip in the box, and honest logs of what came back and who's still waiting on you.

For: Etsy, eBay, marketplace and independent online sellers.

What “done” looks like: Done: your listings, stock, shipments, returns and open customer issues each have a current, downloadable record — and they agree with each other.

The flow

  1. Step 1Prepare your listingsProduct Listing Sheet

    Before the photos go up — SKU, title, price and quantity in one place.

    You decide: Your prices. The sheet doesn't add marketplace fees or taxes on top.

  2. Step 2Count what's in stockInventory Count Sheet

    Stock check — does the shelf agree with the listing sheet?

    Your products come over with the listed quantity as the expected count.

  3. Step 3Pack and ship ordersPacking Slip / Delivery Note

    An order ships — a packing slip with quantities and no prices.

  4. Step 4Record returnsReturns Log

    Something comes back — record what, why, and what you did about it.

    Returns you can't resell can move to the waste log — rows carry over and you delete the resellable ones.

  5. Step 5Track customer issuesCustomer Service Tracker

    A customer is waiting on you — keep the issue on one list until it's closed.

Packing orders on a Saturday? The packing slip and the returns log are quick fills on a phone at the packing table, and drafts survive a refresh, holding in the tab for up to three hours.

What you get

This is the actual Product Listing Sheet before you type anything — brackets are the blanks you fill. Every document downloads as PDF or Word.

PRODUCT LISTING SHEET
Shop: [Shop]
Date: [Date]
SKUItem / titlePriceQtyStatus
Prices are what you plan to charge. This sheet does not calculate marketplace fees or taxes.

What this pack doesn’t do

  • It won't calculate marketplace fees, shipping costs or sales tax — prices are what you type.
  • It's not a return policy. The log records what you did; a policy is a promise to customers that this pack deliberately doesn't write.
  • No marketplace-rules interpretation — Etsy's and eBay's requirements are theirs to define and yours to check.

Questions people actually ask

Is this an inventory system?
No — it's the paper layer. If you outgrow it, you'll know, and that's the point where a live inventory tool earns its subscription.
Why keep a returns log when the marketplace already shows returns?
The dashboard shows its side. Your log records the outcome you actually processed — including patterns dashboards miss, like one batch coming back damaged three times.
Do customer names belong in the CS tracker?
Reference orders, not people. An order number identifies the case without putting personal details on paper you might print or forward.

These are operating records. They are not a return policy, do not calculate marketplace fees or taxes, and do not interpret any marketplace's rules.