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Reports and profit

Reports: sales, profit and where it sold

What each part of the Reports page shows, how to change the period, and what estimated fees mean for your profit.

Written By Justin

Last updated About 1 hour ago

Reports shows what you sold and what you made over a period, where it sold, what's still for sale, what's been sitting too long and what you owe consignors. Fees marked "estimated" come from your own fee rules, until eBay tells us what it really charged.

To open it: on a phone, tap the More tab, then Reports. On a computer, it's in the sidebar.

Pick a period

Along the top: 30 days, 90 days, This year, 12 months and All time. It opens on This year. The period changes the sales figures. What's for sale now, slow movers and consignors are always as they are today.

Download CSV gives you a spreadsheet of the sales in the period.

Sales

The dark card shows your sales total for the period and how many items sold. Selling 3 copies of one card counts as 3.

The bars are always the last 12 months, whatever period you pick. Tap a bar to see that month's numbers.

Beside it are four tiles:

  • Profit: after fees, consignors' shares and what you paid, with your margin.
  • Average sale (or Average per copy when some sales were of several copies).
  • Fees, or Fees, estimated: marketplace and card fees (see below).
  • Consignors’ share: their part of the sales, and how much you still owe them.

Only sales with a price count.

Where it sold and what sold

  • Where it sold splits your sales by where they happened: eBay, your website, in the shop, or the other places you record sales. With more than four places, it shows the biggest three and puts the rest together as Other.
  • What sold shows sales by item type, with how many sold and the profit on each.
  • Most profitable sales lists your five best sales in the period.

How profit adds up

This card walks from sales to profit, line by line: Sales, plus Shipping paid by website buyers if you have any, minus Marketplace fees, Consignors’ share and What you paid for the items sold.

If items sold with no purchase price, they count as $0, and the card says how many. Add what you paid to those items to make profit accurate. What you pay for postage isn't recorded, so it isn't taken off.

What "estimated" means

For eBay sales, Lotmaster uses the fees eBay actually charged, once eBay reports them. Until then, and for sales everywhere else, fees are estimated from your fee rules in Settings → eBay and fees, under Fee rules.

  • Marketplace fees (estimated): every fee in the period is an estimate.
  • Marketplace fees (partly estimated): some eBay sales have real fees and the rest are still estimates.
  • No label: every fee is real.

The note at the bottom of the page says how many eBay sales use real fees, and shows your fee rules.

For sale right now

  • Asking value: what your items for sale are priced at.
  • You paid: what they cost you.
  • Typical time to sell: for sales in the period, the usual number of days from when an item came in (the date you acquired it, or else when you added it) to when it sold.
  • Longest unsold: the oldest item still for sale.

Asking value and You paid leave out consigned items. A line under them gives the consigned items' asking value and roughly what your cut would be, and counts kept items and items with no price paid or no asking price.

Lower down, For sale, by type, Where it’s listed and How long it’s been sitting break your stock down further. Tap a place in Where it’s listed to see those items in Inventory.

Slow movers

Slow movers lists your oldest unsold items, with a button for each: Relist for an ended eBay listing, List for an item that isn't listed anywhere, or Open. If eBay listings ended without selling, a line at the top takes you to relist them.

Watched, no buyer yet shows eBay listings with two or more watchers after two weeks up. On eBay, send them an offer or drop the price a little.

Consignors

At the bottom, each consignor has a card with what's for sale, what you've paid out and what you owe. See Consignment: track consigned items and pay consignors.

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