Drum shop inventory software

Drum Shop Inventory Software for Kits, Cymbals and Hardware

Drum stock breaks most inventory tools. A kit arrives as one box, sells as five pieces, and half your floor is cymbals and hardware with no serial number at all. Music Shop Suite tracks both kinds of stock properly and keeps rentals, repairs, and lessons on the same customer record.

  • Kits tracked whole or split into shells, hardware, and cymbals
  • Serialised items get history; consumables get quantities and reorder points
  • Practice-kit rentals with deposits, due dates, and return condition
  • Repair and refinish jobs with parts, labour, and approvals
  • Real margin per line, including trade-in kits you rebuilt

Split kits without losing the count

Selling a kit piecemeal is normal in a drum shop and disastrous in a spreadsheet. Splitting a kit in the Suite creates the child lines and retires the parent, so the count stays honest and the original cost is distributed across what you are actually selling.

  • Split a kit into sellable lines in one step
  • Cost allocation across the pieces for true margin
  • Original purchase and trade-in history retained

Cymbals, sticks, heads and the reorder problem

The fast-moving accessory wall is where margin quietly lives. Quantity tracking with reorder points means you stop discovering the empty peg when a customer asks.

  • Reorder points and low-stock views
  • Supplier and cost tracking per line
  • Category-level margin so you can see what accessories earn

Repairs, refinishes and rewraps

Workshop jobs get a work order with an agreed quote, parts, labour, and a status the front desk can read aloud to a customer on the phone.

  • Intake photos and agreed quote
  • Parts and labour on the job, not on a sticky note
  • Pickup-ready queue and job history per customer

Teaching and rentals on the same customer record

If you teach drums or hire practice kits, those students are the same people buying heads and sticks. Keeping it on one record is how you see a customer's real value.

  • Recurring lesson slots and attendance
  • Rental agreements with deposits and overdue chasing
  • Full purchase, repair, hire, and lesson history per customer

See the workbench before you sign up

Inventory, pricing, lesson bookings, and instrument lending all live in the same back-office dashboard — no separate apps, no re-keying between them.

Music shop inventory dashboard listing instruments with SKU, serial number, condition, cost, price and status
InventoryEvery instrument tracked by SKU and serial with condition, cost, retail price, and live status — for sale, on hold, in repair, or sold.
Pricing and margin report showing revenue, cost of goods, gross profit and per-product markup
Pricing & marginRevenue, cost of goods, gross profit, and markup per product so you price from real numbers instead of gut feel.
Instrument lending and rental tracker with borrowers, due dates, overdue badges and deposits
Instrument lendingLoans and rentals by unit: who has it, when it is due, what deposit is held, and which agreements are overdue.
Weekly lesson booking calendar with student lessons, teachers, rooms and attendance
Lesson bookingsA weekly teaching calendar with rooms, teachers, and attendance marking — plus the invoice that follows each lesson block.

Honest note

Back office, not a till

Keep the card reader you already have. Music Shop Suite runs the stock, workshop, hire, and teaching records around it.

Frequently asked

Can it handle kits sold as a whole and as parts?
Yes. A kit can be tracked as one sellable unit or broken into shells, hardware, and cymbals as separate lines, so a split kit does not disappear from your stock count.
Does it track cymbals and hardware without serial numbers?
Yes. Serialised items get serial-level history; consumables and unserialised hardware are tracked by quantity with reorder points.
What about drum lesson bookings?
Lesson scheduling, rooms, attendance, and tuition invoicing are included in the same $49/month plan as inventory and repairs.
Can I rent out practice kits to students?
Yes. Rental agreements track the unit, the holder, the due date, the deposit, and the condition on return.

Sign up today

Run your shop on one workbench — starting today.

$49/month, no contracts, no trial. Import your spreadsheet, invite your team, and have inventory, repairs, rentals, and lessons in one place tonight.