Managing your stock levels, reorder point, supplier, location and notes

This article shows you how to record and maintain the details that help you know when to reorder stock: quantity in stock, a reorder point, your supplier, a free-text location, and general notes, all set per listing in the stock cockpit.

What you can track per listing

Each listing in DashVue can carry its own set of replenishment details. These are separate from the listing’s eBay fields such as title, price, or description, and are meant purely to help you manage your own stock:

• Quantity in stock, the number of units you currently hold.
• Reorder point, the quantity at which you want to be reminded to reorder more stock.
• Supplier, a free-text field for where you source the item from.
• Location, a free-text field for where the item is physically kept.
• Notes, an open field for anything else worth recording against that listing.

Because supplier and location are free-text, you can use whatever wording makes sense for how you organise your own stock, whether that is a supplier’s name, a shelf reference, or a room in your house.

Where to edit these fields

Quantity, reorder point, supplier, location and notes live on the /listings stock cockpit, under the Stock and Sourcing tabs. Editing them is straightforward:

1. Open the listings stock cockpit.
2. Find the listing you want to update.
3. Switch to the Stock tab to set quantity in stock and the reorder point, or the Sourcing tab to set supplier, location and notes.
4. Enter or edit the values for that listing.
5. Confirm the entry to save it.

If you go looking for an /inventory page instead, you will be redirected straight to this same stock cockpit. There is no separate inventory page to maintain.

Why a reorder point is useful

Setting a reorder point gives you a simple threshold to watch per listing. Rather than checking every listing’s quantity by eye, you can use the reorder point as your own signal for when it is time to buy more stock from your supplier before you run out and start missing sales.

Important limit: this data never syncs to eBay

In practice this means you can use quantity in stock, reorder point, supplier, location and notes purely as your own private record-keeping layer for managing when and where to reorder, without worrying that changing a number here will alter anything live on eBay.

See the related articles below for more on managing your inventory and costs.