Lots

What a lot is

A lot is one purchase: a sealed case, a pallet, a collection from a card show, a box from an estate. Enter what it cost once, roughly how many things came out of it, and a rule for sharing the cost.

Every sale matched to the lot then gets a cost. A case of 24 packs is one number to enter.

Landed cost

A lot has five cost fields. Their total is the landed cost, and that's what gets shared out.

Total paid

The price of the goods.

Inbound shipping

What it cost to get the lot to you. $60 on a $200 box changes the maths.

Tax

Sales or import tax you paid on the purchase.

Fees

Buyer's premium at auction, payment fees, anything the seller added.

Anything else

Petrol to the card show, the hotel, a grading bill. Anything you paid only because of this lot.

Leaving these out is the usual reason your margin looks better in the app than in your bank.

Unit count

The count is how many sellable things came out of the lot: packs in a case, cards in a box, pairs in a pallet. It sets the cost of one unit.

A rough count is fine to start. Change it any time and every sale from the lot is re-costed. Count the thing you sell: if you sell single cards from a case, count cards.

Unsold stock

Unsold units stay on the books at cost. That's your capital tied up. It's how Analytics can say a lot has returned 60% of its cost with half still in a bin.

A lot is finished when it sells out or you write off the rest. Until then, its return on cost is a running figure.