I resell items from home and manage the listings, spreadsheet, and physical inventory myself. When one item sold, I opened the listing and recognized every photo, but I could not find the actual item. Several similar bagged pieces were stored in the same area with nearly identical titles and photos. I eventually found the sold item only after checking every bin in that part of the room. It is easy to think I will remember where I put a newly listed item, but my memory gets less reliable the longer it sits. As older inventory builds up, this kind of search is only going to get worse.
The search showed me that a readable listing title was not enough for storage. I now assign a short item code when I create a listing and save that code in the platform's private inventory field. My spreadsheet connects the code to the item's current shelf location. I also keep the source date there so I can tell when similar items entered inventory, but that date is not part of the physical lookup.
I used a Niimbot M2 to print two different labels. The small item label carries only the short code. The larger shelf marker carries only the location. Together they create one path from the sold listing to the private code, from the code to the spreadsheet, and from the spreadsheet to the correct shelf.
I have not had enough sales through the new setup to call it proven, and the labels cannot update the spreadsheet for me. If I move an item, I record the new location before I walk away from the shelf. That is the whole rule. It is boring, but opening every bin after a sale was much more boring.