Gallery & culture
Selling art is not running a restaurant.
But the opening night is: wine, water, a few catalogues — and suddenly you need a till that does both without turning you into a snack bar.
Sound familiar?
- Two worlds, one tillA piece for 3,400 € and a glass of wine for 4 € sit in the same cash book. Most systems are built for one of the two.
- The opening night IS the monthOn three evenings things happen that never happen otherwise. A till that only makes sense in continuous operation is dead weight on 27 days.
- Consignment: whose is it right now?Works on consignment are not your stock — but they are in your rooms. No POS handles that properly on the side.
- The receipt still has to be rightThree glasses of wine are revenue with TSE obligations too. Doing that „on the side" creates a compliance problem.
What Qogusto does about it
One model Artwork and wine in the same journal
Both are transactions with their own VAT classification, both append-only, both in the same export. No second system, no manual transfer.
Event The evening as its own P&L
An opening has its own balance: what came in, what went out in drinks, what the evening cost. Not hidden in a monthly blur.
Consignment Third-party goods stay third-party
Consignment stock is tracked separately — it is not your inventory value, and on sale the system knows who is owed what.
Compliance The obligations run along
TSE signature, DSFinV-K, GoBD append-only — even if the till only runs three evenings a month.
Where are the limits?
Honestly, before you ask:
Not an art-trade CRM collector management, provenance, editions are NOT covered
One legal entity per organisation — several companies need several accounts
Stage we are at the beginning: the first venues shape it
Does a hospitality suite fit a gallery?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Four questions and we tell you straight.