You are not picking one product. You are picking between forty.
By the end of the week you have to choose two or three to actually buy, which means holding all of them in your head at once and comparing them properly.
You look at a lot of products in a week. Most people compare them in a spreadsheet: copy the title, copy the price, type in your costs, paste the link, then do it again for the next one. It works, but it takes an evening. Sourcebook does the same job in a few clicks.
Getting it wrong is expensive. Say a product loses 43 cents on every sale. Order a hundred of them and you are $43 down before you sell a single one. Most people find out six weeks later, when the boxes turn up.
−$43.00
One hundred units of a product that loses 43¢ a sale. Four numbers and ten seconds would have caught it.
Spreadsheet, calculator, or Sourcebook
| A spreadsheet | Calculator extensions | Sourcebook | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saving a product | Copy and paste it yourself | Not saved at all | One click |
| Comparing them side by side | Only if you build the formulas | One page at a time | Sorted for you, best first |
| Whose numbers it uses | Yours | Its own estimates | Yours, always |
| Time per product | About a minute | Seconds, then it is gone | One click, and it stays |
| Where your data lives | Your computer | Usually their servers | Your computer only |
| Price | $15 for a template | $20–40 a month | Free |
Saving a product
- A spreadsheet
- Copy and paste it yourself
- Calculator extensions
- Not saved at all
- Sourcebook
- One click
Comparing them side by side
- A spreadsheet
- Only if you build the formulas
- Calculator extensions
- One page at a time
- Sourcebook
- Sorted for you, best first
Whose numbers it uses
- A spreadsheet
- Yours
- Calculator extensions
- Its own estimates
- Sourcebook
- Yours, always
Time per product
- A spreadsheet
- About a minute
- Calculator extensions
- Seconds, then it is gone
- Sourcebook
- One click, and it stays
Where your data lives
- A spreadsheet
- Your computer
- Calculator extensions
- Usually their servers
- Sourcebook
- Your computer only
Price
- A spreadsheet
- $15 for a template
- Calculator extensions
- $20–40 a month
- Sourcebook
- Free
Stop keeping your product list in a spreadsheet.
Free, no sign-up, and it works on the sites you already buy from.