The CollectIt Blog

Deposits protect your materials, your kiln time, and your sanity. Here's how to start taking them without the awkward conversation — and why your best customers won't mind at all.

Undercharging is the most common financial mistake pottery studios make. Here's how to calculate what your sessions actually cost, what the market will bear, and how to raise prices without losing customers.

Storing customer names, emails, and photos? Here's what the law actually requires of small studios — in plain English, without the legal jargon — and the four things to do this week.

An honest, feature-by-feature comparison of the leading pottery collection management tools — pricing, features, and which type of studio each one actually fits.

Spreadsheets and sticky notes work — until they don't. Here's an honest look at when manual systems stop serving you, what good pottery studio management software should actually do, and the questions to ask before you choose.

October arrives and suddenly every shelf is full, every kiln is booked, and customers want their pieces before the 25th. Here's how to plan ahead, manage the surge, and keep your shelves under control.

Getting someone through the door is the hard part — keeping them is where studios really grow. Here's what the research says, and exactly what to do in the 48 hours after a first visit.

Uncollected items are silently costing independent craft shops time, space, and money. Here's why it happens — and how giving customers a bookable collection slot increases pick-up rates by 40%.

Most small business owners run on gut feeling — and it costs them. Here's which metrics actually matter for planning stock, controlling wage costs, forecasting cash flow, and spotting growth before your competitors do.

25–40% of pottery customers say yes to staying in touch when asked at the point of drop-off. Here's why that number matters, and how to turn every session into a marketing opportunity.

You didn't open a shop to spend half your time hunting down people to collect their stuff. Here's how the patchwork of texts and DMs is costing you hours every week — and what a better system looks like.