Stock value & ledger: what your unsold stock is worth

Stock Value shows what everything currently sitting on your shelf is worth, both at what you paid for it and at what you expect to sell it for, so you can see at a glance how much capital is tied up in unsold stock rather than working for you as cash.

Stock at cost and at retail

Every active listing you hold is valued two ways. Stock at cost multiplies each item’s quantity by its recorded cost price, giving you the total amount of money you have spent on stock that has not sold yet. Stock at retail does the same using your listed selling price, giving you a rough sense of the revenue that stock could bring in if it all sold at current asking prices. The gap between the two is a quick, if approximate, view of the gross margin sitting unrealised on your shelf.

Where your capital is tied up

Because stock value is broken down at item level, you can see which products or categories are holding the most capital rather than just a single total figure. This is useful for spotting stock that is expensive to hold relative to how quickly it sells, and for deciding what to discount, bundle, or stop reordering. It also flags uncosted units, meaning items with a quantity on hand but no cost price recorded, so you can see how much of your stock value is currently invisible to the calculation and go and fill in the missing cost prices.

Landed cost and kit or bundle COGS calculators

Two calculators sit alongside the stock value figures to help you get accurate cost prices into DashVue in the first place:

• The landed cost calculator adds freight and duty on top of a unit’s purchase price, so the cost price you record reflects what the item actually cost you to get onto your shelf, not just the invoice price from your supplier.
• The kit or bundle COGS calculator works out a fair cost price for a listing made up of several components, so bundled or multi-part listings carry a realistic combined cost rather than being left uncosted or costed against a single component.

Feeding accurate cost prices in through these calculators improves the reliability of stock value, capital tied up, and every other profit figure that depends on cost of goods sold.

The movement ledger and its honest limits

The movement ledger reconstructs how stock has moved in and out over time, giving you a rough history of stock-out alongside the current stock-on-hand figures.

For day-to-day decisions, that recent window is usually enough to see whether a product is moving. For a full historical audit or for stores with more than 5,000 active listings, keep your own external stock records alongside DashVue rather than relying on the ledger alone.

See the related articles below for more on keeping cost prices accurate and reading your profit reports.