The Flip Tracker is the money view of your flipping: what you've committed to, what capital is tied up in inventory, and the ROI on everything you've sold. It's built entirely from the outcomes you record — no separate data entry.
The three stages
A flip moves through three stages, mirroring real life:
- Committed — you clicked "Going to pick up" (or marked it acquired) but haven't recorded what you paid yet. These sit in a "record what you paid" list so nothing falls through the cracks.
- In hand (capital tied up) — you've recorded a purchase price but it hasn't sold. This is real money parked in inventory, with how long each item has been held (aging) so stale capital is visible. Your in-hand items also get their own focused workspace on the Inventory page.
- Sold (completed flips) — money in, cost basis, net profit, ROI, margin, and days-to-flip per item, rolled into headline totals.
Recording an outcome
On a listing you've committed to, use Record what you paid (or Record Outcome) to enter the acquisition price and, later, the sale price and any repair/transport costs. That's what powers the tracker — and feeds Calibration, which compares what actually happened to what was predicted.
Re-listing what you bought
Once an item is in hand, each inventory row has a Draft a listing link that jumps to that listing's page and generates a ready-to-post marketplace title, description, and suggested price (grounded in the app's own analysis and sold comps). Each field has a Copy button so you can lift it straight into eBay / Facebook / OfferUp — the title even shows its length against the 80-character limit. Review before you post; it's a starting point, not gospel.
Business analytics
Once you've sold a few items, the tracker adds bookkeeping-style views over the same outcomes:
- Sell-through — what share of everything you've committed to has actually sold (low sell-through means inventory is piling up).
- Time to sell — median (and min/max) days from recording an item to selling it.
- Monthly P&L — money in, cost basis, and net profit per sale-month.
- By sale channel — how your flips performed per marketplace. You can buy on one site and sell on another, so record where it sold on the outcome (separate from where you found it).
- Net after fees — record the selling fees + shipping you paid on a sale and the tracker shows your true take-home alongside the fee-free net.
The sale channel and fee fields are optional — the per-channel and net-after-fees views simply stay empty until you record them. Fees are kept separate from the ROI cost basis, so they never distort calibration.
How the numbers stay honest
- Capital tied up counts only money you actually recorded spending — a committed-but-unpriced pickup shows as Committed, not tied-up capital, so inventory never inflates.
- Cost basis is acquisition + repair + transport, matching the rest of the app, so ROI here is consistent with calibration.
- It's read-only — it reports over your recorded outcomes and never re-scores anything.
The pipeline, end to end: Committed → In hand → Sold.