Discogs is here, and your records fill themselves in
The third marketplace PalmFlow connects to, and the first one built for a specific kind of seller. If you deal in records, this is the one.
- Connect it in Settings → Integrations → Discogs, approve it on their side, and every record you have for sale comes across as an inventory item — its price, its condition, the label, the catalog number, the sleeve.
- Your sales come across too, and keep coming. When a record sells, the order turns up on its own with the buyer, the postage and the 9% Discogs took, sitting against the record it sold. The first sync reaches back ninety days.
- Then there's the part that helps even when you're adding a record by hand. Open any item, hit Edit, and there's Fill from Discogs above the details. Search the pressing, pick it, and the label, catalog number, format, barcode, genres and cover art land in the fields. Fifteen million releases, so it's almost certainly in there.
- The catalog number is the one worth caring about. It's what a collector searches, it's the thing most likely to be mistyped off a sleeve, and now you don't type it at all.
- Every listing keeps the currency it was priced in. Sell in euros and your records stay in euros rather than being quietly turned into dollars on the way in.
- It all runs one way, from Discogs into PalmFlow. Editing a record here won't change your Discogs listing, and PalmFlow can't put a new record up for sale there — that one's still on your list.
- Discogs sales carry no tracking number, because you buy your own postage and mark the parcel sent yourself. So these sales skip the ship queue: they arrive shipped the moment you say they are, rather than waiting for a carrier scan that was never coming.
- The 9% Discogs takes is in the fee calculator too, including the part sellers forget: it comes off the shipping as well as the record.