Know what your stock is worth, and what a build actually cost. PartsBox values your inventory from the prices you enter when adding stock, and updates the total as stock moves.
For every part, PartsBox tracks the total you paid for the stock you added, the average price per unit, and the current value of what is on hand. Add these across the database and you have the value of the whole inventory at any moment — for insurance, for your accounts, or to decide what to reorder. Prices entered in several currencies are converted, so the totals come out in your own currency.
Value reports cover both parts and storage locations, so you can see what a single cabinet, a shelf of reels, or the stock at a contract manufacturer is worth. A part with stock cannot be archived, so the reports never silently lose inventory. Any report exports to CSV or PDF with table export.
By default, valuation uses the average cost method: all stock of a part is treated as interchangeable, and its value is the weighted average of what you paid across every purchase. This is a sound approximation, but it cannot tell one purchase from another when prices move.
Lot control makes valuation exact. Each lot keeps the price you actually paid, so the value of your stock is the sum of real lot costs, not a blended average. When a build consumes parts, PartsBox attributes the cost of the specific lots it drew from — the part source strategy you choose, such as FIFO, decides which lots go first — so you get the true material cost of each production batch. Splitting a lot carries its cost with it. This is what accurate cost-of-goods-sold and build costing require, and what an accounting standard that asks for a defined valuation method expects.
Inventory value reports are on the Essentials plan and up. Exact per-lot valuation comes with lot control, on the Control plan; below it, valuation uses the average cost method.