Set a cost price on every item (Advanced item costs and Quick Fill)

This article walks through the Advanced item costs screen, where you can record a full cost breakdown for each item, source and purchase date included, and shows how to use Quick Fill to step through every item that is still missing a cost.

Where to find it

Advanced item costs lives on its own page and gives you more detail per item than a quick inline edit does. For each item you can record the cost you paid, where you sourced it from, and the date you bought it. These details feed the margin and estimated net figures shown elsewhere in DashVue, so it is worth keeping them current.

Entering a cost, source and purchase date

1. Open the item you want to update from the item costs list.
2. Enter the cost price you paid for that item.
3. Enter the source, for example the supplier or where you bought the stock.
4. Enter the purchase date.
5. Save the entry so the cost is applied to that item.

Once saved, the cost feeds straight into that item’s margin and estimated net calculations.

Quick Fill for items missing a cost

Rather than hunting through your listings for the ones without a cost recorded, Quick Fill steps you through them one at a time. It surfaces each item that is missing cost data and lets you enter the cost, source and purchase date for it before moving on to the next one. This is the fastest way to close the gaps after a bulk import or a batch of new listings, since you only ever see items that actually need attention.

One cost per item

Keep this in mind if you resell the same product from different suppliers or at different times. The single cost you enter is what will be used for every margin and profit calculation involving that item until you change it.

See the related articles below for more on tracking costs and stock.