We’re excited to roll out a powerful new tool that’s now available to active members of the LEx community: LExIndex – your window into real-time price and inventory trends.
Whether you’re keeping tabs on NZ Riwaka availability, determining the current value of your inventory, or researching the market before signing a contract, LExIndex helps you make smarter, data-driven decisions.
Here’s a taste of what you can do:
Track how prices and inventory levels have changed over time for any hop variety, product type, or crop year.
LExIndex is only available to actively participating members of the LEx community. If you’re seeing LExIndex in your account, congrats — that means you’re part of the club. This tool is a perk designed specifically for those who are helping to build and sustain The Exchange.
To get started, just look for the icon on any listing, or head directly to lupulinexchange.com/charts to build your own custom views.
And this is just the beginning.
Once you’ve had a chance to explore LExIndex, drop a comment below and let us know what new functionality, comparisons, or visualizations you’d like to see next. Your feedback will help shape where this goes from here. For example, with LExIndex enabled on your account, you can already see a breakdown of the top varieties by sales (or by listings), but maybe you’d like to see more detail, like this:
LExIndex is currently available to actively participating members of the LEx community – those helping to build and sustain The Exchange through recent purchases or by adding significant liquidity to the market. It’s not limited to buyers; many merchants and growers also qualify based on current engagement.
If you’re with a brewery, making a purchase is a quick way to gain access. Otherwise, your account just may not meet the criteria at the moment. We may expand access over time as the tool evolves.
This is very useful/pertinent information, and highly appreciated. I’d suggest hosting a webinar for the active participating members of the LEx community, with a quick demonstration, followed by a round of questions. Just a thought.
I like the pricing information. I do wish it showed pounds sold rather than just inventory. Inventory information is useful, but in my opinion pounds sold is more useful.
Awesome tool, thanks John! Any chance there’s an Export/Download feature coming soon? As Randy said, a “Days Listed” or similar metric showing how long inventory sits while posted would be interesting to track.
Thanks for the suggestion, Randy. Glad the historical pricing info helps. We’ve kept LExIndex focused on price and available inventory to protect seller confidentiality; in a thin market, even aggregated sell-through can get uncomfortably close to revealing individual activity.
For a directional look at varietal demand we already share an aggregated, time-lagged snapshot of the top 10 varieties by share of platform pounds sold (example here: Is the bottom in?).
Exports/downloads: not on the roadmap. Bulk exports make it too easy for marketplace data to end up “in the wild,” and they’re resource-intensive to serve. We’d rather keep the value with active LEx buyers and sellers via in-app views, filters, and alerts.
“Days listed” / time-on-market: agree it’s interesting. We built something similar for internal use years ago:
But this can be misleading without context (variety, crop year, lot size, re-posts, partial sells, etc.). We do already display how many days ago any given listing was posted and how many views it has. If there’s a specific cut that would help your purchasing decisions most, I’m all ears.
icon on any listing, or head directly to lupulinexchange.com/charts to build your own custom views.
