u/KaiaAurion

Looking for free online database

My husband runs a screen printing business. He handles the printing, I handle the embroidery, so our “worlds” only connect as far as orders are concerned. I try to keep my threads and other embroidery needs very organized so I know what I have. He’s a little more… free.

We’re hoping to let our printing apprentice handle some more things on his own, but he’s young and has only been working roughly one day a week for about a year, so the chaos of the print shop can be overwhelming.

I’m looking for a simple database that can be hosted and accessed on multiple computers where we can catalog customer designs, ink colors, on hand garment quantities, and other things like that. The biggest thing is the ink colors as some of the customers are VERY specific. We’ve been using spreadsheets but they’re getting scattered and are rarely updated. Plus I don’t know if the apprentice would even know where to find them.

Bonus if we can have both the screen printing database and embroidery database accessible from the same “start” location so my husband can’t complain about having to keep track of a million links.

I have basic knowledge of SQL, and use Microsoft Access for some of my own stuff. But the price tag on Access sucks.

I appreciate any and all suggestions! Thank you!

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u/KaiaAurion — 7 days ago