About This Blog

We write about the inventory problems no one else thinks are worth explaining.

Mibowi Sayifi is a blog built around one conviction: the operational challenges of multi-platform handmade selling are genuinely complex, and makers deserve thoughtful writing about them.

Where this started

The idea for this blog came from watching makers navigate a very specific transition: the moment when an Etsy shop starts getting wholesale inquiries or decides to launch a Shopify store. That moment is exciting. It's also the moment when inventory management, which was already a little chaotic, becomes genuinely difficult.

Etsy has its own quantity system. Shopify has its own. A wholesale buyer has a purchase order with line items that don't correspond to any listing at all. When you sell something on Etsy, Shopify still shows your full quantity. When you fulfill a wholesale order, nothing updates anywhere automatically unless you go in and change it yourself. And you're doing this while also making the products.

Most advice says: buy inventory software. We wanted to explore what comes before that answer, and whether that answer is always right.

Three laptop screens side by side showing Etsy seller dashboard, Shopify admin, and a wholesale order spreadsheet in a tidy studio workspace

Our Approach

What you won't find here

No software recommendations

We don't have affiliate relationships with inventory tools. We don't think software is always the answer. We explore systems you can build yourself with tools you already have.

No glossing over the hard parts

The hard parts are the interesting parts. We don't skip the complexity to get to a tidy conclusion. We sit with the problem long enough to understand it.

No fake case studies

We don't invent fictional sellers with conveniently perfect outcomes. When we use examples, we're honest about what we know and what we're illustrating.

No watered-down explanations

You're a capable person running a real business. We explain things at the level of detail they deserve, not the level of detail that fits a listicle format.

Why It Matters

Overselling has real consequences for small makers

When a large retailer oversells something, they reorder from a supplier. When a handmade maker oversells something, they have to call a customer and explain that the item they ordered doesn't exist anymore. That conversation is hard. It damages trust you spent months building.

The stakes are different for makers. A bad oversell experience doesn't just cost you one sale, it can cost you the review, the repeat customer, the word-of-mouth referral. Understanding your inventory with clarity is not a nice-to-have. It protects something you've built carefully.

We write about these systems with that weight in mind. The spreadsheet we describe isn't just a spreadsheet. It's a tool for protecting your reputation and your relationship with the people who buy what you make.

A woman in her late 30s packing handmade ceramic products into shipping boxes in a bright home studio, organized shelves of inventory visible behind her

Start Reading

The real-number examples section is where things get concrete.

We work through actual inventory scenarios with real math, not hypothetical frameworks. See how the problems unfold and how different spreadsheet designs handle them.

See Real Examples

Scenarios drawn from the actual decisions makers face across platforms.

Questions? Reach out