Money
Portfolio P&L
See cash flow, realized profit, and inventory at cost by timeframe.
- Updated
- 2026-06-23
- Read
- 3 min
- Status
- Current
What the P&L page shows
The P&L page combines your Purchases and Sales into one portfolio view. Pick a timeframe and you get three answers at once:
- Cash flow — what you spent on cards vs what your sales brought in (before fees)
- Realized P&L — revenue minus eBay fees, shipping labels, and the cost of the cards that sold
- Inventory on hand — what you've bought, at cost, that hasn't sold yet
Why cash flow and realized profit differ
Cash flow counts every purchase dated in the period — including cards that haven't sold yet. Realized profit only counts the cost of cards that actually sold.
Buy a $500 lot in June and sell it in September, and June shows negative cash flow while September shows the profit. Neither number is wrong — the difference is the cost of inventory you're still holding, which the third block shows.
How realized profit is calculated
The statement itemizes everything: item sales plus shipping charged to buyers make up gross revenue, then final value fees, promoted listings, shipping labels, the cost of the cards sold, and any eBay adjustments are deducted to reach realized profit. Margin is profit as a share of revenue; ROI is profit as a share of what the sold cards cost you.
- Returned and cancelled sales are excluded from every number on this page.
- Buyer-paid shipping counts as revenue; the shipping label you buy counts as a cost.
Sales pending fee sync are excluded
A sale only counts toward realized profit once its eBay fees have synced — otherwise fees would read as $0 and overstate profit. Run a sync from the Sales page to include them.
Inventory on hand at cost
This is your all-time purchase spend minus the cost of cards already sold — the money currently sitting in unsold cards.
It's an estimate when some sold cards have a manually entered cost basis instead of a linked purchase.