Margin and profitability

Revenue gets attention.
Margin deserves a closer look.

A sale does not tell you what it earned. Examine purchase costs, commissions and shipping fees to understand order-line profitability, then the contribution of products and channels.

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Three states. Not one misleading total.

When a cost is missing, an estimate should not become a certainty. CIAMA distinguishes calculated margin, fallback estimates and lines whose margin remains unknown.

Financial data coverage — an explanatory diagram.

Sales order lines

Calculated: The line has the information required to calculate its margin.
Estimated: A fallback estimate is used and remains explicitly identifiable.
Unknown: Missing information prevents calculation. These lines remain visible in financial coverage.

Unknown margin is not zero margin. An estimate is not a confirmed result.

Three cost categories to relate to each sale.

Purchases

The cost of the product sold.

Commissions

Available marketplace fees.

Shipping

Collected delivery costs.

These categories describe the operational scope covered, not your full accounting result.

Trace the costs behind the result.

Profitability views let you examine commissions, shipping fees and purchase costs. Explore periods or catalog dimensions to understand contributions instead of stopping at a business-wide average.

Views by channel and period
Analysis by product, brand, category or tag
Visibility into margin data coverage
Access to lines blocking calculation

Your deployment scope

An operational view, not a financial statement.

Included costs and rules depend on available data and configuration. Results describe covered operational profitability: they do not implicitly include all overhead, advertising expenses or accounting entries.

CIAMA is licensed software deployed on-premise. Connections, enabled features and adaptations are defined for your deployment.

Your questions, answered

Which costs are included?

The verified views detail available purchase costs, commissions and shipping fees. Actual and estimated costs are distinguished according to the data received.

What happens when a cost is missing?

A line may use a fallback estimate or remain unknown. Coverage and calculation errors show what is missing.

Can we analyse our most profitable products?

Catalog dimension views let you examine contributions. Rankings must be interpreted alongside margin coverage and missing data.

Look beyond revenue to what remains.

Purchase costs, commissions, shipping and missing information: let’s focus the demonstration on the costs and channels that matter to your business.

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