Profit by item

How to use it

1. 1Press Add an item. Type its price, what it costs you to make, and how many you sell in a week. Six or more items make the chart useful.
2. 2If sample items are showing, your new line is first in the list. Type into it and your item is kept and the sample items go.
3. 3Type over the grey words in the name box. They are an example for the trade you chose in Settings, such as “Sourdough loaf” for a bakery. With no trade set, they say “Your most popular item”.
4. 4Read the four groups. Top earners: high profit and they sell often. Keep them as they are. Popular, low profit: they sell often but earn little each. Raise the price a little, or cut the cost. Profitable, rarely sold: put them where people see them. Low on both: cut them or change them.
5. 5Switch between Profit % and Profit per sale. A cheap item with a high margin looks different on each.
6. 6Press Make your best seller the reward at the end of the screen. It opens the Counter poster at the reward wording. This screen has no paid version.

What it does

• The lines that split the chart are the medians of your own items, so half your items are above each line and everything does not land in one corner. The one exception is an item sold for less than it costs you: it is never counted as high profit, however the rest compare.
• An item that costs more to make than it sells for is marked “Loses money on each sale”, and it never appears under Top earners. Fix the price or the cost on those first.
• If your list still holds items from the sample shop, a note at the top offers to remove them. It only offers an item whose name, price, cost and weekly count are all still ours — change any one of them and it is yours, and the note leaves it alone. Nothing is removed until you press the button, and you have ten seconds to undo it.
• Weekly profit per item is price minus cost, times weekly sales. The classic back office’s “earns you most” tile shows the top of that list.
• Items are kept with your shop, so the list is the same on every device you sign in on, and it is in your export file too.

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