What are COGS sources in TrueProfit?

There are three sources that the app can sync COGS data for your products: From Shopify, CJ Dropshipping, or manually edited in TrueProfit.

Shopify source

If you manage the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) of your products in the Shopify admin using the Cost per item field, TrueProfit will automatically pull and update this data in the Cost of Goods settings.

If you've just installed TrueProfit for your store, don't forget to recalculate your synced COGS to apply product costs to orders in the past.

How to edit COGS on Shopify:

From your Shopify admin, open the Pricing setting of a variant.
Enter a COGS value in the Cost per item field.


By default, all product COGS data is sourced from Shopify. Any future changes made to the Cost per item field on Shopify will be updated in TrueProfit accordingly.



Note: If the Cost per item field of a variant on Shopify is empty (value equals 0), the default source for these variants will be Manual.

CJ Dropshipping source

If you have connected your CJ Dropshipping account with TrueProfit, the app will retrieve COGS data from your fulfilled orders and apply it to the matching products in the Cost of Goods setting. To find which order the product's COGS is synced from, open the Orders Report and find the most recent order that you fulfilled from the CJ source.

Note: At the moment, TrueProfit can only match COGS data from orders that include one product only.

Manual source

If you don't set a Cost per item value on your Shopify admin, the default source in the app will be Manual.

To change source for a product or variant, simply click on the Source dropdown and select Manual

This means the variant/product's COGS will use the manually entered value to calculate costs for future orders in your store.



With the manual source, you can set up advanced COGS setting like bundled COGS and COGS in the past.

Applying your changes in product costs to all orders in the past

All the edits you made to a product/variant will be saved and applied to future orders only. If you want to apply new costs to orders in the past as well, you will have to recalculate all past orders in TrueProfit.

Recalculate past orders means applying new changes to all orders that match for all products. If you want to manage different product costs in the past, add COGS periods like the instructions above.

How to recalculate past orders for one or multiple products

Step 1: Select the products or variants that you want to recalculate using the checkboxes at the left of the table
Step 2: When a product or variant is selected, you can see the Re-calculate product past orders button shows up at the top of the table
Step 3: Click Re-calculate product past orders to start applying and recalculate COGS for all orders in the past of the selected products/variants

Updated on: 31/12/2024