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Multi-channel profit calculator: reconcile every channel without losing your mind

The hardest part of a multi-channel profit calculator is not the formula—it is alignment. Each marketplace speaks its own fee language; your warehouse and procurement run on another. Until COGS, returns, and tax treatment are comparable across channels, “net profit” is a collage of half-truths.

Why siloed channel P&Ls fail

Amazon optimises for its scorecards; Flipkart for its own. Your brand needs one definition of margin per SKU and per cohort. When finance allocates overhead differently than ops tracks inventory, you get heroic spreadsheets that nobody trusts when it is time to place the next PO.

What unified profit needs

  • Consistent SKU identity across listings, bundles, and ASIN or FSIN splits.
  • Return and liquidation flows attributed to the channel and batch that created them.
  • Inventory and procurement tied to sell-through everywhere you stock the product.
  • GST-ready traceability from marketplace documents through to your filings.
  • Time: refresh often enough to steer weekly decisions, not only month-end closes.

Built for Indian multi-channel reality

Profitru exists so sellers stop duct-taping exports from five systems. Connect the channels you sell on, bring returns and supplier workflows into the same picture, and let margin drive what you list, discount, and reorder—not whichever dashboard was updated last.

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FAQ

Multi-channel profit calculator

Dashboards, COGS, and one margin definition across channels.

Each platform optimises its own metrics and fee definitions. Without a shared SKU, COGS, and return story, dashboards will disagree—sometimes dramatically—on the same week’s sales.

Alignment: the same definition of margin everywhere you stock and sell. That requires inventory, returns, and procurement in the same frame as marketplace payouts—not a separate tab per channel.

Landed cost per unit should reconcile to one source of truth. Channel-specific packaging or promotions can change contribution, but starting COGS should not be three different numbers in three spreadsheets.

Profitru connects channels into one operational view: see margin, returns, and supplier workflows together so you place POs and discounts where net profit—not a single portal—says you should.

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