Financial Settings
Profixo's alerts are only as accurate as the numbers behind them. The Financial Settings page (under Settings in the app) is where you tell Profixo about the costs that Shopify doesn't track directly. You can set these during onboarding or any time later.
Sensible defaults
Every field has a conservative default, so Profixo works out of the box. Tuning them makes your alerts more precise.
The fields
Shopify plan monthly fee
Your monthly Shopify subscription cost. Used to understand your fixed platform overhead.
Platform & processing fee
The percentage and fixed fee charged on each transaction (for example, 2.9% + $0.30 for many payment processors). Profixo subtracts this from every order's revenue.
Default margin fallback
When a product has no cost of goods entered, Profixo can fall back to an assumed margin so it can still estimate profitability — but only as an estimate, at lower confidence. Entering real costs is always better. See Product Costs.
Outbound shipping cost
Your typical cost to ship an order, including any free-shipping subsidy you absorb. Shipping gaps are a common hidden leak.
Return / return-label cost
The cost you incur when an item is returned, including return shipping. This feeds refund and return-drain detection.
Why accuracy matters
Consider a product selling for $40 with $22 COGS. On paper it looks profitable. But add a 2.9% + $0.30 processor fee, $6 outbound shipping, and an allocated $5 of ad spend, and the real margin is razor-thin — or negative. Financial Settings is what lets Profixo see that.
Update these when your costs change
If you renegotiate shipping rates, switch processors, or change your Shopify plan, update these values so alerts stay accurate.
Next steps
- Enter your ad spend and allocation.
- Add product costs (COGS) for the highest confidence.