Shopify profit tracker or spreadsheet? A buyer’s guide
Run five checks on a single week of store data before replacing your spreadsheet or choosing a profit-tracking app.
Profit Inspector blog
Know what your store actually kept.
Practical guides for Shopify merchants who want to connect their sales, Meta Ads spend, and costs and make better decisions with the numbers.
Guides for your next decision
Find an example you can run against your own numbers.
How to Set Up and Test a Shopify Net Profit Dashboard
Take a 12-order sample to any profit dashboard and see whether its numbers hold up against Shopify, Meta Ads, and your supplier records.
Why High Meta Ads ROAS Can Still Lose Money on Shopify
A 3× result in Ads Manager can sit beside a loss in your store. Here’s how to calculate the difference and set a target based on costs.
How to track Shopify SKU costs when supplier prices change
Give every variant a cost you can trace to an invoice, and keep the old costs when a supplier raises prices.
Shopify payout vs profit and how to reconcile payment fees
Match the amount Shopify sent to the bank, then work out what the underlying orders earned after the rest of your costs.
How to Calculate Break-Even CPA for Shopify
Work out how much you can spend to acquire an order, what a discount does to that limit, and how many purchases a weekly budget needs.
Why Meta Ads and Shopify Sales Don’t Match
Separate an attribution gap from a reporting problem. Then match your ad spend to the Shopify sales and expenses it belongs with.
How to Reconcile Shopify Discounts, Refunds, and Payment Fees
Follow one partially refunded Shopify order from checkout to net sales, payment fees, and profit in a worked Canadian dollar example.
How to calculate landed cost for Shopify orders
Build a per-order landed cost from actual invoices, then calculate the acquisition cost your margin can support.
How to Track Profit Across Multiple Shopify Stores
Give every store its own profit report, then compare stores or prepare a portfolio view using consistent dates, cost coverage, and currencies.
Put the numbers to work.
Use a real calculation or a sample report as you read.
Open the free calculator Enter your order value and variable costs to estimate your break-even ROAS and maximum CPA.Open sample dashboard Trace Shopify sales, Meta spend, and each tracked cost through the same report.Read the reconciliation blueprint Follow the weekly blueprint to match sales, costs, and deposits in order.