Articles on fees, pricing and tracking sales, with sources
Articles on the arithmetic and the habits behind selling: fees, pricing, tracking sales, setting up a system, and printing. Each one lists its sources.
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What a sale keeps after fees: one sale worked through
One sale worked through: channel fees, processing, shipping, ads and product cost, at official rates.
Updated · 5 min read
How to work out profit per order
A plain, step-by-step way to work out profit per order: fees, shipping, packaging, ads and product cost, with a worked example and official US rates.
Updated · 5 min read
Sales tracking for small business: what each channel keeps per sale
Sales tracking for small business that shows what you keep per sale on your own site, a marketplace and a payment link, with official US fee rates.
Updated · 5 min read
Why your payout is smaller than your sales, and how it differs from profit
Your payout is smaller than your sales because fees, disputes, payout fees and timing come out first. See where the money goes, with official US fee rates.
Updated · 5 min read
Did the ad pay? How to read profit after ad spend, per order
An ad can bring sales and still lose money. Work out profit after ad spend per order, your break-even ad cost and break-even ROAS, with example math.
Updated · 5 min read
Ledger or monthly totals: two ways to track sales by hand
Log every order, or type each storefront's monthly statement: what each method shows, what it takes, and how to keep a month from counting twice.
Updated · 4 min read
Pricing a digital product across more than one storefront
The same file at the same price nets a different amount on each storefront. How to work the price out from the net you want, and what to check first.
Updated · 4 min read
The seven-day setup: one part a day
A setup order that takes one part a day. From day four, your own sales show their fees and net.
Updated · 3 min read
Complaints in reviews of Notion business systems, and what ours do about each
We read reviews of paid business systems built in Notion. Here is each complaint that came up more than once, and what our products do about it.
Updated · 5 min read
Printing the guides at the right size: 100%, Letter or A4
Two settings decide whether a guide comes out the way it was drawn. Which file to print, and which scale to choose.
Updated · 2 min read