Notes on profit, not just revenue
Working notes on WooCommerce cost data, margins and the parts of a store that decide whether a sale was worth making.
3.6%of a $45 order goes to card fees
Profit tracking
Payment gateway fees are quietly eating your margin
A 2.9% fee looks small on one order. Measured against margin instead of revenue, it is one of the biggest costs most stores never look at.
Aug 28, 2026, 4 min read
$28.88kept from an $80 order
Revenue isn't profit: what your WooCommerce dashboard doesn't show
WooCommerce Analytics reports what you sold. Here's the gap between that and what you actually kept.
COGSper product and variation
How to set up cost of goods sold in WooCommerce, the native way
WooCommerce already has a Cost of Goods Sold field. Most stores never fill it in. Here's how to populate it quickly.
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