Cost & Profit Tracking

Cost & Profit Tracking

Track what you paid for each item and see your profit everywhere — listings, orders, and dashboard.


Setting Costs on Listings

One at a Time

Click any listing to open the detail panel, then click Edit. The Item Cost field lets you enter what you paid. When you save, profit is calculated automatically from the selling price.

Bulk Import

For updating many items at once:

  1. Click Download on the Listings page to export your current listings as a CSV
  2. Open the file in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or any spreadsheet app
  3. Fill in the Cost column with what you paid for each item
  4. Save the file (as .csv, .xlsx, or .numbers)
  5. Click the Costs button and upload the updated file

The import matches items by FLUF ID — the download includes this automatically, so don't remove or change that column.

For large imports (over 500 items), the import runs in the background. You can track progress on the Bulk Jobs page.

Setting Costs on Orders

If you have past orders without cost data, you can add costs retroactively from the Orders page:

  • Inline editing: Click "+ Add cost" next to any order's amount to type in the cost
  • Bulk import: Click Import Costs to upload a spreadsheet with order_id, channel, and item_cost columns — export your orders first to get the right format

See the Order Cost & Profit Tracking guide for more details.


Where Profit Shows Up

Once costs are set:

  • Listings page: The Cost column shows what you paid, and the detail panel shows profit
  • Orders page: Each order shows profit (revenue minus cost)
  • Smart Pricing: Can use your cost as a price floor to protect your margins — set a minimum markup percentage so prices never drop below your cost

  • How Costs Flow to Orders

    When an item sells, the cost you set on the listing is automatically snapshotted to the order. This means:

  • Changing a listing's cost after a sale won't change the order's profit — the order keeps the cost at the time of sale
  • If you didn't set a cost before the sale, you can still add it to the order directly

  • Tips

  • Leave the Cost field blank to clear it
  • Currency symbols (£, $, €) are stripped automatically during import — just enter the number
  • The Download button respects your current filters, so you can export just a subset of listings
  • You can import .csv, .xlsx (Excel), or .numbers (Apple Numbers) files
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