Shops and catalogs
If you hide COGS, the site can still look rich. The month will not.
People brief the selling price and skip what they pay. Then ads, postage, and processor fees eat the month. The tools we shipped, markup, break-even, only work if you type real costs.
Type what you pay per unit (or a honest range), then set markup and price. Do not ask the catalog fill to invent a profitable wholesale cost.
What counts as COGS
What you pay to have the thing ready to sell: supplier, materials, a packing component you always use. Not your rent, unless you want a fully loaded model, then be explicit.
Why it belongs in the brief
So Cipher does not pick a pretty number that is below cost. So you can reuse the same number in the markup calculator.
Ranges
If cost moves, use a range and a conservative selling price. Do not publish a price that only works on the lucky invoice.
Dropshipping COGS
The supplier's price plus their shipping to the customer if you do not control it. Still a number. Still yours to type.
Break-even is not an average
The break-even tool uses the numbers you enter. We will not paste a fake industry conversion rate. See the cost cluster.
Privacy
A public site should show selling prices, not your supplier invoice. Put COGS in the brief and the calculator, not in a customer-facing table.
Limits and caveats
We do not import QuickBooks. No accounting suite. Empty cells stay empty.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Shops and catalogs. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Questions people actually ask
Will the live site show my cost?
It should not, if you briefed selling prices. Check the preview.
What if I do not know COGS yet?
Do not pretend to. Use from-prices on services, or delay the cart.
Are processor fees COGS?
They are a cost of taking the order. Include them in break-even. They are not Bizzit's cut.
Does $12 count as COGS?
It is a fixed month. Put it in break-even as overhead if you want that model.