Share inventory with other shops

What other shops can see

• Your available remnants: the stone, the size, the photo.
• Roughly how far away you are, in whole miles.

And what they cannot see:

• Where the piece is in your yard. Your A-frame locations never leave your shop.
• What you charge. Your retail price is not what you would sell to another fabricator at, so no price is shared at all.
• Anything you have hidden from your own storefront. If a customer cannot see it, neither can another shop.
• Anything sold or on hold.

Turning it on and off

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   Step 1. Open Settings and find Shared inventory.

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   Step 2. Tick “Share inventory with the network.”

   • Result: Your available pieces become visible to other sharing shops, and the Network page fills with theirs.
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   Step 3. Decide whether to include pieces you have not photographed.

   • Off by default. A shop hunting a 40 by 30 in a colour you have does not need a photo to pick up the phone, so if most of your yard is un-photographed, turning this on is the difference between being findable and not.
   • Result: Those pieces now appear too, with their stone and size but no picture.

Using it

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   Step 4. Open Network in the menu and search the way you would search your own yard.

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   Step 5. When you find a piece, use the contact details on the card to call the shop that has it.

   • The network shows you who has it and how to reach them. Everything after that is a conversation between two shops, the way it already is.