Site map
Everything on the QuiltCounter website
Every page and every section of the home page, with a line on what you will find there.
Free tools, comparisons and working documents
- QuiltCounter compared with the systems quilt shops actually shop forMost software sold to your shop counts pieces, and a bolt is not a piece, so the honest comparison starts with how each system treats a partial cut.
- QuiltCounter vs SquareSquare suits a shop whose sales are mostly countable goods and who wants one familiar commerce platform, while QuiltCounter suits a shop whose money walks out in fractions of a yard.
- QuiltCounter vs Lightspeed RetailLightspeed Retail suits an owner who wants one deep retail system across a large and varied catalog, while QuiltCounter suits an owner whose hardest daily question is how many yards are left on that bolt.
- QuiltCounter vs Rain RetailRain Retail suits an owner who wants the shop, the web store and the class side living in one vendor's platform, while QuiltCounter suits an owner who wants one instrument that is exactly right about yardage.
- Free calculators for the cutting counter and the classroomTwo working tools for the two numbers that decide whether an independent quilt shop clears anything at the end of the month.
- Yard Margin CalculatorPut in your landed cost, your bolt length and the yardage you lose per bolt, and see the margin that survives to the register.
- Class Prep Hour PlannerCount the kit cutting and the classroom resets alongside the teaching hours and the class calendar starts to look like the job it is.
- Working resources for running a quilt shop by the numbersEverything here is built for one trade: an owner who cuts yardage all day, fills a classroom on weekends and orders from a rep three times a year.
- Bolt Count Reset ChecklistA shelf by shelf routine for getting your recorded yardage and your actual yardage to agree, and for keeping them that way.
Main pages
- Home: the full product story, pricing and the request form.
- Author: who builds QuiltCounter, his experience and how the product is maintained.
- Site map: this page.
Home page sections
- The counter: the four daily costs of an inaccurate bolt wall.
- How it works: import, count, cut and sell seats in four steps.
- Features: yardage, rosters, kits, reorder alerts, memberships and reporting.
- Integrations: point of sale, accounting, vendor orders and your website.
- A week on the counter: what the software does Monday through Sunday.
- Switching: how shops move over without closing for a day.
- Results: shelf accuracy, hours saved, seats sold and stock cleared.
- Shop owners: three named owners on what changed for them.
- Pricing: One Shop, Shop and Classes, and Two Shops, billed monthly.
- Questions: cost, onboarding, data, integrations, cancellation and bolt accuracy.
- Request a walkthrough: the form that reaches the shop team.
Bolt and Counter, the magazine
- Bolt and Counter index Reporting on the working economics, inventory craft and classroom side of running an independent quilt shop in the US.
- How do I set my price per yard when my wholesale cost keeps moving on reorders? Quilt shop retail pricing is built from landed wholesale cost, freight, shrinkage and the cost of holding a bolt.
- What does my state actually require me to collect in sales tax on fabric and class fees? Cut yardage is nearly always taxable retail, but class tuition, kits and shipped orders follow different rules.
- Why does my bolt count on paper never match what is on the shelf at inventory time? Yardage shrinks from cutting habits, unrecorded returns, class samples and shelf ends.
- Should I run beginner classes myself or pay a teacher a cut of every seat sold? Owner taught, flat fee teacher and revenue share each change your break even seat count and your labor law exposure.
- How do I build a class kit that actually turns a profit instead of eating my scraps? A kit is a manufactured product with a bill of materials, cutting labor and a yield loss.
- What do I owe a customer when a class is canceled or she drops out the night before? Registrations are prepaid promises.
- How did one shop cut its dead bolt inventory in half over a single fiscal year? A walk through of one independent shop's reset: how it classified aging bolts, staged markdowns by season, and changed reorder minimums so the problem did not come back.
- What happens to my shop when the big fabric collections shift to online only distribution? Minimum order quantities, designer direct releases and precut formats are reshaping what an independent shop can stock.
- What actually happens on the shop floor during a busy row by row or shop hop weekend? A close look at how a multi shop hop weekend runs: staffing the cutting counter, prepping the exclusive fabric, passport handling and the restock work that lands on Monday.
Legal and policy
- Legal notice: publisher identity, registration numbers, hosting and liability.
- Privacy policy: what the form collects, how long it is kept and your rights.
- Terms of service: subscription, billing, cancellation and data ownership.
Direct contact
- jimenezjulien42@gmail.com: reaches Jimenez Julien and the onboarding team.