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Creator sample-request decision sheet

One sheet covers one request. Keep a blank CSV register of every request beside it, and see the decision diagram. Every field starts empty: nothing here is a real request, count or result.

Keep personal addresses and private contact details in your authorized system, not on a printed sheet.

1. The request as received

Request ID

Received (date, time, time zone)

Channel and sender account

Product, variant and quantity asked for

Their words, pasted verbatim

What they offered in return, as stated (leave blank if nothing)

2. Supply

The inventory owner counts. Spare units = on hand minus reserved for named commitments minus unusable or needed back.

Count owner and count date

Units on hand

Units reserved (name each commitment)

Units unusable or needed back

Spare units after reserves

3. Fit against criteria written before the request

Copy each criterion from your written list. Mark met, not met or cannot tell, and keep the address and capture date of what you looked at.

Criterion 1 and result

Criterion 2 and result

Criterion 3 and result

Evidence address and capture date

4. Reply and record

Reply chosen

Reply sent (date, time, time zone)

Terms stated in the reply

Promised in writing

Explicitly not promised

Follow-up date and owner