If your shop buys comics or toys or really anything else from people who walk in off the street, the Comic Shop Assistant Collection Buying module can be helpful. How? Read on, dear retailer reader...

The CSA Collection Buying module lets you create a record of what a seller brought in, how much you'll price it at, and how much you'll offer them. Once purchased, items on a collection can be easily added to an invoice for check-in (in the case of regular items) or be converted to inventoried back issues. The end goal is to let you know your profit margins on purchased collections. Currently, this works well for the back issues, but we have not completed the regular item calculations for profits.

In this section you'll learn how to:

  1. Create a buying collection
  2. Add standard items, back issues and custom items to a collection.
  3. Calculate your offer in trade or in cash.
  4. Lock a collection once it's been paid for or your offer has been refused.
  5. Push collection line items to your product catalog or your back issue inventory
  6. Review your profit and goals on a collection.