Jewelry

01

One number, the whole board

Type the 24K rate and 22, 21 and 18 follow by fineness, with every buy rate a set percentage under the sell rate. Yesterday's board is still there, and the chart shows where the metal has been going.

02

Old gold is not a discount

Weigh the customer's chain, test it, agree the deduction, and the credit comes off the ticket at your buy rate. Behind the scenes the metal lands in stock as scrap and the sale stays booked at the full value of the goods.

03

Buying gold, by the book

Purity test, deduction, cash out, and the seller's identity document encrypted the moment it is typed — only the last four digits ever come back. The register is there when the regulator asks.

04

VAT the way gold is taxed

Tax the whole ticket, or only the workmanship with investment-grade gold zero-rated, or nothing at all. The receipt, the invoice and the VAT return all agree.

05

The bench and the crucible

Custom orders, repairs and resizes with deposits held for the customer until collection, and melt batches that carry the cost of every lot into the bar and count the loss in grams.

06

Grams in, grams out

The report a gold shop actually trusts: what left the safe and what came back into it, karat by karat, beside the day's takings and the margin on every piece sold.