The other problem is that I co-own a gallery and for our gallery mailings we 3 owner artists put our personal mailing lists together along with names gathered at our gallery events. I can print labels for mailings or send them to a mailing service. Then I can add the names, addresses and info to my contact list which is also on Excell. I’ve been using Excell for about 11 years to record sales of originals and prints, names,addresses, phone no. One is deciding to carry on with Excell or to try to transfer all my info to a new system. For all the financial parts of the transaction, I use Quickbooks, which also had contact functions, but focussed on getting paid, not staying it touch for marketing purposes. Probably can be done by a more geekly person than me. I wish I could make Bento do a bit more on the sales end, so I could generate and invoice and track payments. For commissions the process starts with the contact and sales record - the inventory entry would be made last when the piece is done. A sales record has links to the contact DB and inventory DB, to avoid double data entry.
I keep and link separate databases: (1) contacts (actually in the Mac’s Address Book, which shares data with Bento automatically (2) artwork inventory (3) sales database. It works on iPod Touch, too.īento is a relational database, which means you can link fields to other databases. Sync works over WIFI, which is good if you have your Bento database on a different computer than you use to connect your iPhone/iPad to iTunes for its normal sync via cable. Jennie - I use Bento on both Mac and iPhone and it syncs very well.
I don’t know if they sync very well, but that’s a pretty big plus for me! It also has powerful event management aspects.Īs I use my iPad as a creative tool, a portfolio and presentation device and studio reference the fact that I can put bento on it as well is very enticing. There are artist database templates available on the website to download. It also enables me to customize it exactly how I want. I like that I can hook it directly into iPhoto which is where I keep track of all of my photographs of artworks, detail shots, concepts etc. i’d also like something that tracks my submissions as well, perhaps something a little more in-depth so i’ve been looking into bento. As it is that needs to be done manually for each piece. I would like to be able to create an exhibition, list what pieces are in it then have that exhibition appear under the image listing as well. Unfortunately there is a lot of double handling when putting together exhibition lists. It works well for tracking, for exhibitions, printing lists, portfolio pages and more. I’ve been using flick for years now and through several versions.
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