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How-to guides for the Hub, your webshop and your channels

Step-by-step guides on importing stock, connecting your channels and till, pricing per channel and getting paid.

Latest guides

Hardware & infrastructure

Scanners and label printers: what the shop floor needs

A scanner speeds up the crate. A label printer makes the older half of your stock scannable at all. What to look for in both.

4 min

Inventory & catalogue

Where the catalogue data in your shop comes from

The public sources behind the artist, title and year on every record page, how pricing is handled, what you may do with the data, and what happens when a record is unknown.

4 min

Inventory & catalogue

How cover and item photos work in the Hub

The difference between the shared cover of a release and the photo of your one copy, where covers come from, why a cover is sometimes missing, and what you control.

4 min

Getting started with the Hub

Setting up your store with the Hub

From an empty account to a live shop: what to set up in which order, and what can safely wait until after launch.

4 min

Getting started with the Hub

The one-off Discogs import at onboarding

What the import copies from Discogs, what it leaves behind, and what changes the day after.

3 min

Scan and Go

Scan and Go: three routes to add a record

Barcode, photo or keyboard: how a record gets into the Hub, and why the pressing stays your call.

3 min

Till & shop floor

Connecting your till to the Hub

The till stays the place where you sell. Connect it once and every sale at the counter removes the copy from all online channels.

3 min

Till & shop floor

Fair mode: sell offline, keep stock accurate

Take crates to a record fair without a record being sold twice: offline before you leave, back online the same evening.

3 min

Sales channels

Setting prices per channel

One copy, one base price in the Hub, and a markup or discount per channel to absorb commission and shipping. How the rule works and how to choose the numbers.

3 min

One inventory, multiple channels.

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