Other Cost Input

You can capture "Other Costs" that are attributable to a connected e-commerce channel to provide a more accurate measure of marginal profit in the Analytics reports and Home screen dashboard. Some examples of these "Other Costs" could be costs from affiliate or influencer marketing, or even pop-up events and measuring it's impact on channel sales.

How to set this up

1. From a single store view, click Integrations in the side bar. From this page, select a connected channel to associate this "Other Cost" to:

1. From the channel connection details page, click the "Other Cost" tab. Next, click "Add Manual Cost"

1. Enter the details for the other costs by adding a title, a time range, category and cost type and value. Click Save after:

Item	Description
Manual Cost Title	Enter a name. This helps to list down all "Other Cost" items added to the channel.
Time Range	Include a date range for this Other Cost item. Based on this time range, AnyX will distribute the costs evenly between the dates for the Sales Channel Reports as an estimate.
Category	Unit Cost : Will be recorded and added in the unit cost column in the sales channel report and the report by product. Discount : Will be recorded in the discount column in the sales channel report and product report. Commission Fee : Will be recorded in the commission column in the sales channel report and product report. Logistics cost : Will be recorded in the column of logistics cost in sales channel reports and reports by product. Advertising Fee : Will be recorded in the advertising expenses column in sales channel reports and product reports. Other Cost : Will be recorded in the other cost column in the sales channel report and product report.
Cost Type	Enter the applicable cost type - Fixed or Percentage Fixed: The entered value is distributed proportionally by day (time range) and by product as a fixed value. Percentage: The entered % will be factored in and applied against the value of Revenue minus Discounts; for the given time period. It will then be added as a cost in the relevant column in the Sales Channel and Product reports based on what you selected in Category.