An inventory audit is a one-off review of your actual inventory data that shows where your cash is tied up, which SKUs are about to stock out, and which are sitting too long. TheBrandSpur runs it for ecommerce brands across Amazon, Shopify, TikTok and retail, and returns a ranked list of fixes with the money attached to each one.
This is not a stock count. We are not checking whether your shelf matches your system. We are looking at what your inventory is doing to your cash — what you have over-bought, what you are about to run out of, and what the gap between those two is costing you every month it stays open.
One-off · $1,500 · 3 business days max
Get your inventory auditWhat's included
What we look at
Eight things we look at, on your data, not a template.
Eight checks, one spreadsheet
- 01
Cash tied up, by SKU
How much of your working capital is sitting in each SKU right now, ranked largest first. Most brands have never seen this number broken out.
- 02
Stockout risk list
Which SKUs run out inside your supplier lead time, and what the lost revenue looks like if nothing changes.
- 03
Overstock and slow movers
What is sitting past the point of being useful, how long it has been there, and what it costs you to keep holding it.
- 04
Cover by SKU and channel
Weeks of stock on hand against real demand, so you can see the SKUs with four weeks and the ones with forty.
- 05
Reorder points against real lead times
Whether your current reorder triggers match what your suppliers actually deliver, or a number someone set once and never revisited.
- 06
Landed cost check
Whether the unit cost you are planning against includes freight, duty and storage, or only what the supplier invoiced.
- 07
Channel split
Where stock is allocated against where it is selling, and the SKUs that are out on one channel while sitting on another.
- 08
Ranked fix list
Everything above turned into an ordered list of actions, each with the money attached, so you can start at the top.
How it works
How the audit works
Five steps · 3 business days max
- Step 1
You answer a few questions
Revenue band, channels you sell on, and a couple of details about your catalog. Under two minutes.
- Step 2
You share read access to your data
Seller Central, Shopify, and your inventory sheet or system — whatever you have. Read-only is enough.
- Step 3
We run the analysis
Your own numbers, not benchmarks. Three business days at most.
- Step 4
We walk you through it on a call
Findings, the ranked fix list, and what we would do first.
- Step 5
You keep the output
No dashboard to log into, nothing to learn.
Who this is for
You probably need this if
Best fit
- Your best sellers stock out while your slow movers keep arriving
- You cannot say, without opening three tabs, how much cash is sitting in inventory today
- You are buying on gut feel because the data takes too long to pull
- Storage fees have gone up and you are not sure which SKUs are causing it
- You are planning a raise, a sale or a new channel and need the inventory position to be defensible
We work with ecommerce brands doing $1M to $50M a year, usually across more than one channel and more than one supplier. Below that, the audit tends to tell you things you already know.
How it differs
Inventory audit vs stock count vs cycle count
A stock count tells you what you have. An audit tells you whether it is the right stock, and what holding it is costing you.
| Comparison | Physical stock count | Cycle count | Inventory audit (ours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The question it answers | Does what is on the shelf match what the system says? | Are the counts for these SKUs accurate right now? | Is your money in the right SKUs, and what is it costing you? |
| What it looks at | Quantities on hand, across the whole warehouse | Quantities on hand for a few SKUs or locations at a time | Sales, stock, lead times and unit costs, by SKU and channel |
| Does anyone have to count stock? | Yes, everything at once | Yes, in small batches | No. We work from your data |
| How often | Usually once a year | On a rolling schedule, weekly or monthly | One-off, whenever you want a clear picture |
| Who normally runs it | Your warehouse team or an outside counting firm | Your warehouse or inventory team | TheBrandSpur, working from your data |
| What you end up with | A variance report and corrected book quantities | Corrected counts and error rates by SKU or location | A ranked fix list with the money attached, in a spreadsheet, plus a walkthrough call |
These are different jobs, and some brands need both.
What you get
What you receive
$1,500
One-off · No retainer
3 business days max
NDA signed before any access
Get your inventory audit- Walkthrough call
- We talk through the findings and what we would do first
- The spreadsheet
- Everything above in one file you can sort, filter and share with your team
$1,500, one-off. No retainer attached to it. If you want us to run the fixes afterwards, that is a separate conversation you are free not to have.
Audit done?
Now fix it.
A stock count verifies that what you have recorded matches what is physically there. That is an accounting exercise. This audit assumes your counts are roughly right and asks a different question: is your money in the right SKUs, and what is it costing you when it is not.
Yes, and it is the normal case. Most brands come to us with stock levels in one place, costs in another, and supplier lead times in somebody's head. We work with what exists, flag what is missing, and tell you which gaps are distorting the numbers. You do not need to clean your inventory data before the audit — that is often one of the findings.
We sign an NDA before any access is shared. From there we only take read-only access, so nothing in your account can be changed by us at any point. We never need admin rights, and you can revoke the access the moment the audit is delivered. Your supplier names, costs and margins are not shared with anyone outside the team running your audit.
Yes, though the findings look different. On a single channel the audit focuses on cash tied up by SKU, reorder points against real supplier lead times, and what FBA storage is costing you on slow movers. The channel allocation side of the audit matters more once you are selling in more than one place.
Three business days at most, from the point you give us read access to your data. The questionnaire before that takes under two minutes. Once the analysis is done we book a walkthrough call to take you through the findings and the ranked fix list.
The audit is $1,500, charged once. That covers the full analysis on your own data, the ranked fix list, and the walkthrough call. There is no retainer attached and no obligation to continue afterwards. If the findings point to work you want us to run, that is priced separately.
The fix list is ranked, so you start at the top and stop wherever you want. Most brands act on the first three or four items themselves. If something needs ongoing work — forecasting, supplier renegotiation, a warehouse move — we can quote for that separately, but nothing in the audit depends on you doing it.
Start with the audit
Answer a few questions about your brand and we will prepare the audit, then reach out to book a call.