Discogs inventory management
Every record you have for sale becomes real inventory: priced, graded, catalogued and costed. When one sells, the order arrives with the fee Discogs took.
Your Discogs shop, as real inventory
Discogs is one of PalmFlow's three live integrations, alongside eBay and Shopify. Connect it and this is what comes across.
Your listings become inventory
Every record you have for sale imports as an item: the price in the currency you listed it in, the media condition, your listing comments, the label, the catalog number, the format, and the sleeve as the photo.
Sales arrive with the money attached
When a record sells, the order turns up on its own: the buyer, the shipping address, the postage, and the real fee Discogs charged, sitting against the record it sold. The first sync reaches back 90 days.
Records fill in their own pressing
Search 15 million releases from the item editor and the label, catalog number, format, barcode, genres and cover art land in the fields. The catalog works whether or not you have an account connected.
Profit per record, not per shelf
Cost basis is per item, so what you paid for a record follows it to the sale. Fees and postage come off automatically and the margin is a number you look up, not one you work out later.
Why records are different
A general-purpose inventory tool gets these wrong, and each one costs you either accuracy or an evening.
One listing is one physical copy
Discogs has no quantity field. Three copies of the same pressing are three listings and three items, each with its own condition and price, not one row with a count that hides which copy actually sold.
Every listing keeps its own currency
There is no shop-wide currency on Discogs. A listing priced in euros stays in euros, and the exchange rate is locked onto an order at the time of sale, so a March sale doesn't get revalued in July.
The 9% includes the postage
This is the one sellers get wrong. On a $12 record with $5 shipping the fee is 9% of $17, not of $12. PalmFlow doesn't estimate it. Discogs reports the real figure and that's what gets stored.
There is no tracking number
Discogs orders carry no tracking, no carrier and no fulfillment record anywhere in the API. You buy your own postage. So these sales skip the ship queue instead of waiting on a carrier scan that was never coming.
What it will not do
The Discogs connection is import only. Here is exactly what that means, so it doesn't surprise you later.
One way, Discogs to PalmFlow
It will not put a record up for sale on Discogs, and it will not take one down. Listings and orders come in; nothing goes back.
Live listings stay as they are
Change a price in PalmFlow and your Discogs listing keeps the price it had. eBay is the only channel PalmFlow pushes back out to: title, price and photos.
Not a crosslister
It does not copy a record onto other marketplaces. Sales from anywhere else can be logged by hand or brought in by CSV, into the same profit numbers.
What Discogs actually takes
A $25 record with $5 postage, sold through Discogs Payments. The commission is charged on both halves, which is the part that surprises people.
| Record price | $25.00 |
| Postage the buyer paid | $5.00 |
| Discogs selling fee: 9% of $30.00 | −$2.70 |
| Discogs Payments processing: 2.9% + $0.30 | −$1.17 |
| You receive | $26.13 |
There is a $0.10 minimum and a $150 cap per order, so above roughly $1,667 the commission stops growing. Run your own numbers on the fee calculator, which carries the same schedule, including the cap.
Common questions
Does PalmFlow sync with Discogs?
Yes. PalmFlow imports your Discogs listings as inventory items and pulls your Discogs orders in automatically, each carrying the buyer, the postage and the 9% fee Discogs charged. The first sync of your sales reaches back 90 days.
Can PalmFlow list a record on Discogs for me?
No. The Discogs integration is import only. PalmFlow reads your listings and your orders and never creates, edits or removes a listing on Discogs. Editing an item in PalmFlow will not change your Discogs listing.
What does Discogs charge a seller?
Discogs takes 9% of the item price plus the shipping the buyer paid, with a $0.10 minimum and a $150 cap per order. Discogs Payments adds processing of 2.9% plus $0.30 on top. On a $25 record with $5 postage that is $2.70 in commission and $1.17 in processing.
Do I need a Discogs account to use the release catalog?
No. The catalog search runs on PalmFlow's own Discogs application credentials, so any signed-in PalmFlow user can fill a record's label, catalog number, format, barcode, genres and cover art from 15 million releases, including sellers who list records on eBay and have never sold on Discogs.
How much does it cost to manage Discogs inventory in PalmFlow?
The Free plan covers 50 active records and one marketplace connection with no credit card. Pro is $19.99 a month for 500 active records and three connections, and Ultra is $39.99 a month for unlimited records and connections. Only records still in your inventory count toward the limit. Sold ones drop out.
Does PalmFlow track two copies of the same record separately?
Yes. Discogs has no quantity field, so one listing is one physical copy. Each copy imports as its own item with its own condition, price and cost basis, which is the only way the profit on a specific pressing stays correct.
Put your records where they count.
Free for your first 50 records. No credit card. Discogs is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with PalmFlow (see trademarks). Fees change; check Discogs' own pages for current numbers.