For resellers & flippers

Messy buying, item-by-item selling — and a profit figure you can trust.

Storage units, pallets, estate lots, thrift finds, or ordinary wholesale stock. Record the buy at the price you paid, sell before you have finished counting, and know what every piece really cost — fees, shipping and the box included.

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How it works

Intake → Prepare → Sell → Know, in a reseller’s terms

  1. 01

    Intake

    Record one item, a wholesale order, or a whole mixed lot with every purchase cost beside it.

  2. 02

    Prepare

    Inspect, identify, label, and place inventory as it becomes ready.

  3. 03

    Sell

    Reserve and sell the exact piece; its cost follows it onto the sale.

  4. 04

    Know

    See what each item and channel actually earned.

Why it fits

Built around the buy nothing else handles

Most inventory tools assume you know what you bought and what each thing cost the day it arrived. A reseller often knows neither for weeks. Intakes is shaped around that.

The mixed-lot buy

Sell before you finish counting — without pretending the cost is final.

  • A $1,500 storage unit or pallet, recorded as one purchase — contents still being unpacked.
  • List and sell items while the count is unfinished; their profit is clearly marked provisional.
  • When the intake closes, the price spreads fairly across everything you found.
  • Items you already sold receive their final cost automatically.
How mixed-lot costing works, step by step

Intake 1042

Open

Storage unit · one price, contents unknown

Purchase total
$1,500.00
Unpacked so far
138 items
Already sold
21 items

Costs stay provisional until you close — keep unpacking, keep selling.

Sale 2087

Completed
Vintage denim jacket
$45.00
Cost
Provisional
Profit
Provisional
✓

On close, $1,500.00 spreads fairly across all 138 items — including the 21 already sold, whose profit updates to the final figure.

WC

Wool coat, camel

SKU-1042 · Intake 1038 · Unit 2 of 12

Available · Shelf B-3
Sells in a $2.00 box? The box lands on that sale’s profit — the margin is told the truth.

Landed cost

How this exact unit got its number

Purchase
$40.00
Freight
$6.20
Duty
$3.40
Handling
$0.00
Unit cost $49.60

Every fee where it belongs

The margin on a $45 jacket is told the truth

Freight and a buyer’s premium on the purchase spread across its items. The marketplace’s fee and the postage you paid land on the sale. The box is counted too. What is left is what you actually made.

  • Name your fees in your own words — final value fee, promoted listing, buyer premium — and report on them by that name.
  • Shipping you charge and shipping you pay are two lines, so the gap between them is visible.
  • Damaged and lost stock keeps its cost, so a write-off is a real number on its own line.

What is sitting

Slow stock, ranked by how long it will take to sell

Not by last-sale date, which misreads both your steady sellers and your dead weight. Days of cover — today’s pile at its recent pace — reads both right, so you know what to discount and what to stop buying.

  • Profit by item, by channel, by size or colour, for any period.
  • A bestsellers report with the items that never sold at the bottom.
  • A low-stock watch on the things you restock, with an email when they run out.

Slow-moving inventory

Sellable stock ranked by days of cover — how long the stock on hand lasts at its recent sales pace

ItemStockSold (90d)Days of cover
Knit beanie, grey 36 0 — No sales in 90 days
Wool scarf, plaid 27 4 ~608 days
Leather belt, brown 12 9 ~120 days
Canvas tote, natural 25 58 ~39 days
A steady seller with deep stock is slow; a dusty one-off that sold yesterday is not fast. Days of cover reads both right.

Intake 1042 — history

Nobody had to write any of this down

  1. Maya closed the intake

    Costs recalculated on 138 items — including 21 already sold · today, 2:14 PM

  2. Dan added a whole-intake adjustment

    Buyer premium +$36.80 · today, 11:03 AM

  3. Maya reopened the intake

    “Forgot the auction fee” · today, 10:58 AM

  4. Dan added 12 units of Wool coat, camel

    Line 4 · yesterday, 4:41 PM

Corrections are honest — history is never quietly rewritten.

Corrections

Forgot the auction fee? Reopen, add it, reclose.

Every affected cost recalculates — including on the pieces you already sold — and every change is on the record with who did it and when. Nothing rewrites history silently, and nothing needs re-entering.

  • Returns recorded as goods back in and money back out, in the month it happened.
  • Un-complete a sale to fix it. Pull a prepared batch back.
  • Erase what you never actually received; write off what you lost.

Questions

What resellers ask first

I buy storage units and pallets. Do I have to count everything before I can sell?
No. Record the buy as one purchase at the price you paid, open it, and start listing and selling as you unpack. Profit on those sales is marked provisional until you close the purchase; when you do, the price spreads across everything you found and the sold items get their final cost.
Do I have to use the preparation step?
Only if you want to. A flipper ticks "make available now" when the purchase opens and the goods go straight onto the shelf. The station is there for anyone who inspects, photographs or shelves across many locations — and it stays out of the way for anyone who does not.
What about marketplace fees, shipping I charge, and the box?
Each lands where it belongs. Fees and shipping are recorded on the sale — in your own words, so eBay’s final value fee is called that — and packaging is bought like any other stock and counted into the profit of the sale it shipped in.
I sell on eBay and Etsy. Do my orders come in on their own?
The order import takes your marketplace’s own export — eBay’s orders report, Etsy’s order items download, and several more — and turns each order into a draft sale priced exactly as the marketplace priced it. It is being switched on workspace by workspace now, with connected accounts next.

Know what you really made on every flip.

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