Assign Costs to Multiple Items After They Sell

Seller Ledger on October 7, 2026

In our continued efforts to make it easier for customers to track their inventory costs, we now offer the ability to assign costs to multiple items after they sell.

How do I assign costs to multiple items?

For both periodic and continuous inventory trackers, simply go to the Inventory -> Sold view, which has been redesigned. This screen allows you to add costs to items after they have sold, which we have offered for a while. But now, there’s an additional option.

To add costs to multiple items, check the boxes in the left column and click the “Add costs” button at the top:

Clicking that button brings up a list of options for how you’d like to handle those costs:

For sellers with large transaction volumes, this should speed up the process of updating your cost of goods..

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Track Cost of Goods Sold for Product Bundles and Kits

Seller Ledger on September 8, 2026

With all the recent simplifications and improvements we’ve been making to inventory tracking in Seller Ledger, it’s time to roll out something that many sellers have been asking for: the ability to track cost of goods sold for product bundles and kits.

If you use continuous inventory tracking in Seller Ledger, you likely already have the individual costs of various items you have listed for sale.

  • But what if you decide to offer several of those items for sale in a bundle, at a discounted price?
  • If that bundle sells, how do you remove the multiple individual items from inventory and make sure they show up in cost of goods sold?
  • And then how do you look at profit for that bundled order, or those individual items?

Fortunately, Seller Ledger now helps you with all of this.

Tying a bundle sale back to its underlying products

To link a sold product bundle with its individual items, simply go to Inventory -> Sold, find the sale for the bundled product, and click “Add costs”.

You’ll see a new option in the list, called “Match multiple items”. Click that option to bring up a dialog box where you can select and add each item from inventory that belongs in that bundle.

Click “Save” and Seller Ledger will remove those items from inventory and update your cost of goods sold total.

See your profit per order

Now, when you go back into your marketplace account, click “Expand” on the bundled order. You’ll see how much money you actually make on that order.

eBay Bundle Discounts

As it so happens, this update is particularly well-timed. eBay announced its bundle discount feature as part of its September 2026 Seller Update.

Thanks again to all of our customers who requested this functionality. Stay tuned for more product updates.

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Just Type in Item Costs to See Your Profit

Seller Ledger on August 11, 2026

A lot of sellers would love to see how much profit they make on each product, but aren’t so excited to track every inventory purchase from acquisition through sale.

To help those customers, we’re pleased to announce a new option that allows any seller to simply type in item costs and see their profit on any sale, after it’s already been made.

How can I enter my item costs?

To be able to take advantage of this feature, you do need to turn on inventory tracking. While you will technically be using the “continuous” inventory approach, you can skip a lot of the steps.

Once you have inventory tracking turned on, simply go to Inventory -> Sold and you’ll see a list of your recent sales, with an “Add costs” button in each row. Click on that button for a sale and choose the bottom option: “Enter a cost”

This will bring up a simple form where you can just record the amount you paid for that item, and we’ll handle the rest. You can also assign a specific vendor name and change the purchase date, but it’s your choice. If you want to simply type in the costs of as many items as you can, as quickly as you can – you can now do so.

As soon as you click “Save”, you’ll instantly see your gross profit. And your cost of goods sold will increase by the amount you entered.

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Load Inventory Costs from Your Spreadsheet

Seller Ledger on August 5, 2026

If you have built or bought a spreadsheet template for tracking your product purchases and costs, you can now use that to get a jump start on automating your eCommerce accounting and getting better insights into your net profits. Seller Ledger now lets you upload inventory costs from your spreadsheet.

To start, this feature only works if you have inventory tracking turned on and want to see your profits at the item-level. If you are writing off cost of goods sold as you go, you’ll be more interested in just uploading a list of expenses.

However, if you’ve already been tracking each purchase and sale, you’ve made the investment to see your profitability per item.

Update

Since this article was originally published, we’ve released a much more flexible approach to CSV file formats. You can learn more about that here.

How to upload your existing inventory costs from your spreadsheet

Just go to the Inventory tab in Seller Ledger, and you will see a new “Inventory uploads” sub-tab. Next, open your existing inventory purchase spreadsheet and save it as a new file, in a CSV format. And make sure to rename any of the columns to match our layout.

Pro tip

If you don’t already have unique SKUs for each item in your spreadsheet, we strongly recommend adding them. They are the secret to automating the matching of sales to cost, reducing inventory and calculating cost of goods sold.

That’s it. You’ve just jump-started your switch to a more automated method for tracking your profits on each sale/item.

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Better Manage the Products You Sell

Seller Ledger on July 9, 2026

To better help you manage the products you sell, Seller Ledger has added a new view under the Inventory tab. In addition, for those of you who are not tracking inventory (i.e. using a “cash-based” approach) and writing off cost of goods sold directly, you’ll notice that the Inventory tab now has more useful features.

Finding your products

Clicking into the Inventory tab, you will see a new sub-tab called “Products”. For those of you already tracking inventory, it will show to the right of the other tabs.

For those of you writing off cost of goods directly, you’ll also have access to the new Products tab, just without the extra Inventory tabs:

Editing your products

Click into your products tab to a see a list of every product that you have either sold or loaded purchase/cost information for. We show you each product’s name, SKU, how much has been sold and on what channels.

You can sort by product name, by SKU, number sold or revenue.

If you have multiple copies of the same product that use slightly different names, now you can correct that. The same holds for cases where you are missing SKUs or using the same SKU for different items. Correcting those makes it possible to fully automate your cost of goods sold and see your profit per order.

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