Your total collection value is the market price of every bottle we have a price for, added together, plus an estimate for the bottles we don't — and that estimate is your own collection's average bottle price, never what you paid.
⭐ Requires a paid plan. On a free collection the total is blurred with a Learn more prompt beside it.
What the total tells you
Each market price is the typical shop price for that bottle today, before sales tax. So your total is roughly what it would cost to buy your collection again at typical shop prices: a good starting point for insurance. It is not what you would get if you sold everything. Auctions take fees and merchants buy below their shelf price, so selling brings in less.
Your purchase prices are not part of it
This is the most common misunderstanding about the number. If a wine has no market price, we do not fall back to what you paid for it. We use the average market price of the rest of your collection. What you paid rolls up into a separate total of its own.
The two halves of the number
Bottles with a market price. Each one counted at its own price. Where you have set your own price for a wine, yours is the one used.
Bottles without one. Each counted at your collection's average market price. A wine usually has no price because it is rare, or popular in a country where our pricing data is thin.
See how much is real and how much is estimated
Open Home.
Tap the ⋯ beside Market value.
Tap About market value.
It tells you what percentage of your bottles we have market values for, what those bottles come to on their own, and the average price standing in for the rest. On Android, tap the question mark beside Market value. On app.invintory.com, hover the question mark on the home page.
Home → Market value ⋯ → About market value
Which bottles count
Counted | Not counted |
Bottles sitting in your cellars and fridges now | Bottles you have removed — consumed, gifted, sold and the rest |
Bottles from a delivery that has arrived | Bottles still in transit on a delivery |
Every bottle size, priced for its own format | Bottles on a purchase you have not finished entering |
Why the total moves on its own
Market prices update when new market data arrives, so the figure can move even when you touched nothing.
Removing a high-value bottle lowers it twice over: that bottle's price leaves, and the average standing in for your uncovered bottles falls with it.
Market prices are converted into your base currency at the current exchange rate, so rates move the total too.
Next steps
Understanding individual market prices — where a single wine's price comes from, and how to set your own.
Why did my collection value change? — what our market value means, and why it is not a selling price.
The difference between market price and purchase price — what each price means, and how to use them together.
Why the app and the export show different values — why the CSV total is lower than the app.