Add a line for cost of goods to a listing and sales reports
I run my business on the cash accounting system and I keep track of what I pay for each item that I sell. There is no place in a listing for me to put the cost of the items that I sell, other than the SKU, but I cannot put my cost there because you show the SKU to my buyers. I need a place to put my cost so that I can see it when I am making decisions to mark a price down. I also need that information in my sales reports that I download by CSV.
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People use Excel for all sorts of things but it was invented for what-if analysis:
Price, Highest Added Ship, Highest Actual Ship, Item Cost, and a formula to calculate Net.
When an item sells, cut paste it to a sold area.
I wouldn't rely on a .csv for accounting but I understand why some do; rather, I print the sales order (having the FVF there is nice), Paypal transaction on the back, Paypal shipping label transaction, and staple the in-store shipping receipt onto the sales order. You could attach cost and enter it all into an accounting system. And you'd have paper backup.
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