{"id":2829,"date":"2016-05-07T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T02:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2016-05-07T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T02:31:40","slug":"tracking-photo-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/tracking-photo-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking photo sales&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want a better way to track sales of <a href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/limited-editions\/\">limited edition prints<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know some people who use a spreadsheet, others who have paper records. I want something a bit more robust. Ideally it would fit into my workflow easily (which is\u00a0one reason\u00a0I am not a fan of the spreadsheet) so a plugin for Lightroom would be perfect, but I cannot find anything{{1}}. Next choice would be a plugin for either <a href=\"https:\/\/koken.me\/\">Koken<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. But again, I have found nothing appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>So, me being so stubborn, I decided to write a program myself. Of course I am not a programmer, and the program seems to be growing in complexity, but\u00a0I am working towards something that will work for me.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of\u00a0positives with this approach:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I will (eventually) get a program that is &#8220;perfect{{2}}&#8221; for my needs.<\/li>\n<li>I will learn a lot about programming that may come in handy for future projects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The disadvantages are that it is taking a lot longer than I hoped, and I am still not sure how it will fit into my workflow. Eventually I&#8217;ll be able to post some progress and see if anyone else has a use for a program like this.<\/p>\n<p>[[1]]There are a number of plugins to track stock sales. which I guess could be pushed into service, except most of them are quite expensive.[[1]]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[[2]]For some definition of &#8220;perfect&#8221; and assuming I don&#8217;t give up on certain features.[[2]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want a better way to track sales of limited edition prints. I know some people who use a spreadsheet, others who have paper records. I want something a bit more robust. Ideally it would fit into my workflow easily (which is\u00a0one reason\u00a0I am not a fan of the spreadsheet) so a plugin for Lightroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}