How do I keep track of my Bricklink orders?

Question

I just noticed "This order will be purged from the BrickLink website on …" on the bottom of one of my Bricklink orders.

How do I keep track of the inventory I bought on Bricklink after the orders are deleted? Can I somehow create an inventory from them? I just want to know which bricks I bought in an accessible manner.

Answer 1

Good answers here. As all of them suggest to download ordered items and manage your orders in an offline manner.

Another way is to, keep track of your collection (sets and loose/extra bricks) online in Rebrickable. Here you you have an option to import orders directly from Bricklink.

Click the Import/Delete Parts button on the Part List page that you want to import into.

Choose a file or external site to import from.

From a Rebrikable help guide.

Answer 2

If you go to your order overview, you can click on Download

On the next page select the checkbox 'Include detail items'

This should give you and overview of all orders including exact parts bought in each transaction.

Answer 3

To add to @user18321’s answer, here are two other ways:

1. Within BrickLink: go to each order and click on “Add to Wanted List”. Now add the pieces to either a new wanted list (perhaps under the order number?) or dump all your orders into one big Wanted list (e.g. “Purchases”).
2. Using BrickStore: download this free software, give it your BL credentials, and it will download your orders for you (Using “Import”>”Bricklink Orders”). It has a great UI that allows you to manage your collection, and amongst others allows you to pull up current cost values for the items you own (ctrl-A ctrl-G).