Stock value & ledger: what your unsold stock is worth

See what your unsold stock is worth at cost and retail, where capital is tied up, and use the landed cost and kit COGS calculators.

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

DashVueAsk DashVueAIOVERVIEWShipDashboardCalendarSTOCKStockRepricerSELLINGOrdersOffers3ReturnsMessagesFeedbackFINANCEReportsTax centreExpensesCost of GoodsInsightsSettingsSAccountseller@example.comSTOCKStock value & ledgerWhat your unsold stock is worth at cost, how it's moving, and tools to cost it right.Stock at cost£4,120412 units on the shelfStock at retail£7,850if it all sells at list priceActive SKUs38lines with stock on handUncosted units40no cost price set40 units have no cost priceYour stock-at-cost figure leaves these out, so it is understated. Use the landed-cost calculator below to set a true cost price.Where your capital is tied upYour stock ranked by cost value - the cash sitting on shelves.Retro Game Console8 in stock · £1,200 at retail£640Vintage Denim Jacket12 in stock · £1,080 at retail£540Wireless Keyboard15 in stock · £675 at retail£375Ceramic Plant Pot40 in stock · £560 at retailNo cost setStock-at-cost splitHow your shelf value breaks down.£4,120at costRetro Game Console£640Vintage Denim Jacket£540Wireless Keyboard£375Other items (34)£2,56540 uncosted units are not in this split.Movement ledgerRetro Game ConsoleStock in and out over time for one item, with a running balance.Find an item…Opening 14In 0Out 6Now 86 movementsRetro Game ConsoleDATEMOVEMENTCHANGEBALANCE28 Jun 2026Sale-1824 Jun 2026Sale-1919 Jun 2026Sale-110Landed-cost calculatorYour true COGS per unit, including freight and duty.ITEM PRICE (BATCH)£100.00UNITS IN BATCH10Kit / bundle COGSAdd up the cost of a bundle's parts to price it and check the margin.1.£5.00x2
The Stock value & ledger page with the headline valuation tiles highlighted: stock at cost and at retail, then the capital breakdown and stock-at-cost split, the movement ledger, and the two costing calculators below. Figures shown are placeholder demo data.

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.

The ledger is reconstructed, not a full audit trail

DashVue does not hold a native, complete record of every stock movement. Instead, the movement ledger reconstructs stock-out by joining your last 120 days of sales to your listings by item title. Sales older than 120 days will not appear in the ledger, and because matching is by title rather than a unique listing or batch ID, relisted or reordered items sharing a title can be blended together in the reconstruction. The ledger also caps at 5,000 active listings, so stores above that size will not see a complete picture. Treat the ledger as a useful recent trend rather than a definitive stock audit trail.

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.

Last updated 2026-07-05.

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