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title: How to see what your stock is worth
url: https://tideswell.xyz/docs/inventory/stock-value
description: Value the stock you own at what your deliveries really cost, see which part is estimated, and download it for your accountant.
---

> Documentation index: fetch https://tideswell.xyz/llms.txt to discover every page before exploring further.

# How to see what your stock is worth



**Selling › Stock value** tells you what the stock on your own shelves is worth. It prices each unit
from the deliveries you received against purchase orders in Tideswell, at what they cost to land.
It sits beside the other stock pages covered in <Ref to="inventory" />.

Your workspace may use its own word for purchase orders; **Settings › Terminology** shows both.

The header says when Shopify last counted the shelf, such as "Stock as counted by Shopify 2h ago,
priced from your own deliveries."

## Before you start [#before-you-start]

You need:

* The Store and Purchase orders modules on. The **Stock value** row shows only while both are. See
  <Ref to="workspace-admin/modules" />.
* Your Shopify store connected. See <Ref to="get-started/connect-shopify" />.
* **View purchase orders and the buying calendar**, which starts at lead. The page is built from
  what each delivery cost, so it needs the same permission as seeing those costs. See
  <Ref to="workspace-admin/permissions" />.
* Your own locations confirmed in the open-to-buy feed settings, as below. Confirming them needs
  **Change stock, receiving and store settings**, which also starts at lead.

## What if the page asks which locations are yours? [#what-if-the-page-asks-which-locations-are-yours]

Press **Choose your locations**, switch on your own locations, and confirm them. Until then the page
reads **Tell us which locations are yours first** and shows no total.

Shopify holds stock at every location it knows about, including suppliers' shelves for dropship
items and anything you hold on consignment. None of that is yours to value.

**Choose your locations** opens **Buying › Data feeds › Open to buy**. Press **Feed settings**,
switch on each location you own, and press **Confirm**. The steps are in
<Ref to="store/open-to-buy-feed" />.

## What do the four tiles mean? [#what-do-the-four-tiles-mean]

Together they split the shelf by how well each unit is priced:

* **Stock value**: the whole figure, proven and estimated together.
* **Proven by your deliveries**: units matched to a delivery you received in Tideswell with a
  cost, at that delivery's landed cost.
* **Estimated at Shopify's cost**: units no priced delivery of yours explains yet, priced at the single
  **Cost per item** Shopify holds for each one.
* **Units we still cannot price**: units with neither a delivery nor a Shopify cost. They carry no
  value.

Under the tiles, a short paragraph puts the split in sentences and names any products showing more
received than is on the shelf. That usually means stock left without selling through Shopify, or a
delivery was booked twice.

The same paragraph counts the units left out as not yours to value. Those sit at locations you have
not claimed, are items Shopify keeps no real count for, or are ruled out by the marks in your
open-to-buy feed settings.

## How is a unit priced from your deliveries? [#how-is-a-unit-priced-from-your-deliveries]

Tideswell starts from the count Shopify holds and matches it to your newest deliveries first. The
oldest units sell first, so what is still on the shelf is the most recent stock.

Landed cost is the unit price plus the unit's share of freight and duty on the order. At Fairgreen Golf
Co., 40 merino quarter-zips are on hand. The last delivery from Kaimen Knitwear brought 30 at $24.10
landed, and the one before brought 50 at $22.80.

The 40 are valued as 30 at $24.10 and 10 at $22.80, which is $951.00, or $23.78 a unit. A unit
from a delivery booked without a cost is never valued at zero: it counts as estimated instead.

## What does the table show? [#what-does-the-table-show]

One row per product, with the most valuable first. The columns are **Product**, **On hand**,
**Landed cost**, **Proven**, **Estimated** and **Value**.

Under each product's name sit its supplier and how many variants it has, plus a count such as **3
not priced** when some units carry no value. **Landed cost** is the blended landed cost of the proven
units only, so Shopify's single cost never mixes into it.

Click a product to see each variant on the shelf, with the deliveries its units came from: how many
units, the date received and the landed cost of each. A lot code and expiry date show where the
delivery recorded them.

## How do you make more of the figure proven? [#how-do-you-make-more-of-the-figure-proven]

Receive deliveries against purchase orders in Tideswell, with their costs filled in. Each delivery
you book in moves the units still on the shelf from **Estimated** to **Proven**. See <Ref to="purchasing/receive-a-delivery" />, or
<Ref to="phone/receive-a-delivery" /> to do it from the iPhone app.

To price units in **Units we still cannot price**, receive them on a purchase order or enter a **Cost
per item** for them in Shopify. See <Ref to="inventory/restock-cost-and-corrections" />.

## How do you search and download? [#how-do-you-search-and-download]

Type in **Search products or suppliers** to narrow the table. **Download CSV** saves the rows on
screen, so search first if you want one supplier's stock.

The file keeps the proven and estimated parts in separate columns beside the total, so an accountant
can see which part your deliveries prove. Its columns are:

* **Product**, **Supplier** and **On hand**.
* **Units your deliveries cover**, **Units estimated**, **Units not priced at all** and **Surplus
  units**.
* **Landed unit cost (USD)**, &#x2A;*Proven by your deliveries (USD)**, &#x2A;*Estimated at Shopify cost
  (USD)** and &#x2A;*Total stock value (USD)**. The headings carry your store's currency.
