See what your unsold stock is worth (stock value and movement ledger)
Read your unsold stock's cost and retail value, spot uncosted units, and see a per item movement ledger.
Your stock value page shows what everything currently sitting unsold in your shop is actually worth, both at cost and at retail, so you can see where your capital is tied up and which items still need a cost price before their numbers mean anything.
Cost value vs retail value
DashVue shows your unsold stock two ways. The cost value is the total of what you paid for every active listing, based on each item’s cost of goods sold (COGS). The retail value is the total of what those same listings are currently priced at on eBay. Looking at both together tells you two different things: cost value is roughly how much cash is tied up in stock you have not sold yet, and retail value is roughly what you would take in if everything sold at its current asking price.
The gap between the two is your unrealised margin across the whole shop, which is useful for spotting whether your overall pricing still leaves enough room for fees and profit once stock does sell.
Active SKUs and uncosted units
Alongside the value totals, the page counts your active SKUs, meaning every listing currently live and unsold that DashVue is tracking. It also flags uncosted units: listings that do not yet have a cost price entered.
Cost prices are needed for accurate figures
Any listing without a cost price cannot contribute a cost value, so it is left out of that side of the maths. If a meaningful number of your listings are uncosted, your cost value total will understate what you actually have tied up in stock. Go through and add cost prices to uncosted listings so the totals reflect reality.
Where your capital is tied up
Because the page breaks value down at the listing level rather than just showing one grand total, you can see which items or categories are holding the most cost value while sitting unsold. That is useful for deciding where to focus: items with a lot of capital tied up and slow movement are candidates for a price cut or a closer look, rather than being left to sit indefinitely.
The per item movement ledger
DashVue also reconstructs a movement ledger for each item, built from your last 120 days of sales. This shows how that item’s stock has moved over that period, giving you a sense of whether it is selling steadily, slowly, or not at all, alongside its current value.
What the ledger covers
The ledger is reconstructed from sales activity, so it only reflects movement DashVue has visibility of over the last 120 days. It also only covers your first 5,000 listings, so if your shop is larger than that, items beyond the first 5,000 will not appear in the ledger.
Keeping the figures reliable
The stock value page is only as accurate as the cost prices behind it. If you are seeing a lot of uncosted units or a cost value total that looks too low, work through your listings and fill in cost prices, ideally as soon as you list an item rather than after the fact. See the related articles below for more on setting and managing item costs.
Last updated 2026-07-05.
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