Gross margin tells you what a product costs to make — not what it costs to sell. This guide walks through a structured, five-layer method for calculating true net margin per order across Shopify, Shopee, Lazada, and TikTok Shop, accounting for packaging, last-mile delivery, payment gateway fees, and platform commissions.
Shopify’s product reports reveal variant-level data that can expose which SKUs are quietly eroding your catalogue margin. This guide walks through how to find underperforming variants, calculate true contribution margin across channels like Shopee, Lazada, and TikTok Shop, and take deliberate action to protect profitability.
Most e-commerce operators price on supplier invoice cost and never see the full picture. This guide breaks down every component of true landed cost — freight, duties, brokerage, GST, 3PL receiving and more — with a worked per-unit calculation, a multi-channel margin comparison across Shopify, Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop, and practical steps to build landed cost into your buying process before every purchase order.
TikTok Shop affiliate commission rates tell only part of the story. This guide shows how to extract creator-level data from TikTok Shop Affiliate Analytics, build a full cost model that includes platform fees, samples, returns and fulfilment, and calculate the true cost per converted order — the metric that reveals whether each creator partnership is actually building or destroying margin.
Learn how to use TikTok Shop Traffic Source Reports to separate organic revenue from paid ad spend, calculate true contribution margins by source, and make smarter budget decisions across your ecommerce channels.
Most Shopee sellers judge ad performance by blended ROAS and never realise individual listings are losing money on every sale. This guide walks through a practical process for using Shopee Seller Centre Traffic and Business Insights reports to calculate listing-level contribution margin, identify which SKUs are draining your ad budget, and reallocate spend toward listings that are genuinely profitable.
Blended average order value hides more than it reveals. Learn how to build Shopify custom reports that segment AOV by customer type, sales channel, and loyalty status — then connect those figures to contribution margin to identify which segments are actually profitable.
Learn how to use cohort analysis in Shopify Analytics to measure repeat purchase rate by acquisition channel. Discover how to segment cohorts by channel, connect retention data to contribution margin, and decide where to allocate your marketing budget for long-term profitability.
Most e-commerce businesses set prices without accounting for every variable cost, leaving margin to erode through fulfilment fees, platform commissions and return costs. A SKU-level cost card fixes this by documenting every per-unit cost before you set a selling price — across Shopify, Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop.
Before opting into a Shopee, Lazada or TikTok Shop promotion, every seller needs a structured profitability analysis. This guide walks through how to calculate contribution margin at promotional pricing, determine the break-even volume uplift required, assess cash flow impact, and compare outcomes across channels — so you can make the decision with numbers, not assumptions.
