Inventory
Describe it once,
properly
Fields built for the antiquarian trade rather than bent from a general retail system. Catalog a book on a desk, a shop floor or at a fair, and BookRouter takes it from there.
Assisted entry
Start a record with a few keystrokes
Key or scan an ISBN and the bibliographic record comes back from ISBNdb, cover image included where there is one. From there you fill in what sells the book: condition, binding, edition, signed, jacket, provenance, and whatever else your shop keeps track of.
Add your own fields for the things nobody else needs. Turn on type-ahead for the fields you repeat, so the fortieth Nonesuch Press entry does not get typed out in full. Drag images in and the whole team can be cataloging at once.
Power tools
Change ten thousand records at once
Bulk edit repricing, status, categories and more across a whole working set in one pass. Paste in a list of SKUs to build that set, or filter your way to it, then find and replace text wherever it appears.
Every bulk operation writes a restore point first. A sweeping change stops being a nervous one, because you can look at the result and put it back if it is not what you meant.
Images
Photographs that load anywhere
Every photograph is served from Fastly, a delivery network with servers all over the world, and resized on the way out. A buyer in Melbourne waits no longer than one in Boston. Thumbnails are made for you and the full-size original stays available for zoom.
Storage is ample and nothing expires. The hosted image has a real URL, which means you can use it anywhere else you like, including places we do not route to.
When it goes wrong
What stops a bad day becoming a bad month
Most inventory disasters are not dramatic. They are a truncated upload file, or a bulk change nobody meant to run that wide. These are the things that catch them.
A short file gets refused
A full-replacement upload that covers only a fraction of what you have in stock is almost always a broken file rather than a decision. BookRouter stops that one and tells you, instead of doing as it is told and deleting the rest.
Every sweep has an undo
Restore points are written before a bulk operation runs, not after somebody notices. Roll the set back and carry on.
It leaves whenever you want
Take a full backup of the catalog on demand, or export to CSV, XLSX or XML. Your listings, your images and your customer records belong to you, and they are portable whether or not you stay.
In and out
Bring it with you, take it away again
Inventory comes in from the formats the trade already uses, BookHound, HomeBase and UIEE included, or from a spreadsheet you map yourself once and reuse. Shops moving from another system usually arrive with a file nobody can read any more, and that is the normal case rather than the awkward one.
It goes out the same way. Twelve export formats, custom column layouts you define, and a one-click backup of the lot.
Included
The cataloging toolkit
All of it, on every plan, from a single record to an operation across the whole catalog.
What happens next
A record you only have to write once
The whole point of describing a book properly is that the description then does the work. Routing puts it on the venues, and every sale of it comes back to the same record.
We will set you up with a demo login so you can catalog a book in it, or send us a file from your current system and we will tell you how it would come across.