What’s the best app for tracking your profit?
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The discussion began with a request for Shopify apps that track actual profit rather than revenue alone. Suggestions included BeProfit, TrueProfit, AutoDS, Bloom, Mantle, ProfitLossDash, Lifetimely, and ClearProfit. Recommended capabilities varied, but commonly included incorporating cost of goods sold (COGS), advertising spend, shipping, fees, and custom expenses, with reports by product or time period. There was no agreed best app; several replies were personal recommendations or app promotions.
The latest exchange focused on a related accuracy problem: landed costs, which combine product costs with expenses such as freight and duties. One merchant said order profitability can shift after refunds and shipping, and asked whether landed costs update when duty or foreign-exchange rates change after a purchase order is entered. A developer explained that their app recalculates only when the purchase order is edited and does not track rate changes automatically. Another commenter advised checking whether tools can recalculate received orders and preserve timestamped inputs for historical reporting; they disclosed that their own app uses live duty and FX inputs. The discussion remains open, with no app selected or resolution on which tool handles landed costs best.
Hello there @Licommerce!
To track your actual profit on Shopify, not just sales, there are a couple of good options.
For something simple and easy to use, BeProfit is a popular choice. It pulls in product costs, ad spend, shipping, and fees so you can see your real profit per order or product.
If you’re running a lot of ads and want more detailed breakdowns, TrueProfit is another solid option.
For a basic overview, Shopify’s built-in analytics is fine, but it won’t show true profit unless you add all your costs manually.
Hi! If you’re looking for the best app to track your profit, I highly recommend AutoDS. It has a built-in profit tracking dashboard that gives you a clear breakdown of your earnings, costs, fees, and net profit in real time.
It automatically factors in: product cost, shipping fees, selling platform fees (like eBay, Shopify, etc.), order fulfillment costs, any additional expenses you input
You can view profit reports by product, supplier, store, or time period, which makes it super easy to know what’s working and where to optimize.
Hey! I’d recommend Mantle. It’s been really helpful to measure all of the basic customer acquisition and retention metrics.
Hey @Licommerce,
If you need an app that excels at tracking profit, Bloom is worth checking out. You can automatically factors in all the costs and expenses your business incurs, so the profit number is accurate.
You can also break profit down by product, order, or channel for any date range. Please share your requirements for a profit-tracking app, and I’ll point you to the best way to set it up.
Cheers!
Hey! I’ve tried a few, but the one I use most is AutoDS because it has a profit dashboard that updates automatically with fees and shipping costs. Makes it way easier to see what you’re actually making without spreadsheets.
I’ve tried a few profit tracking apps, and for me, TrueProfit has been the most practical so far.
What I like is that it doesn’t just show revenue, it actually breaks down COGS, ad spend, transaction fees, shipping, and other costs so I can see my real net profit clearly. That alone helped me avoid scaling products that looked good in revenue but weren’t actually that profitable.
Recently, they’ve also improved a lot in terms of UI and features. I’ve been using:
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Product Analytics to see which products are truly profitable (not just best-sellers).
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Marketing Attribution to better understand which ad channels are driving real conversions.
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Custom Costs: this is a big one for me because I can add extra costs (agent fees, packaging, apps, etc.) and get a much more accurate net profit number.
It’s not perfect, but for the price and what it offers, it’s been a solid option for my store.
Just sharing my experience and it might be worth testing with the trial to see if it fits your workflow
Hey there! Another option worth looking at is ProfitLossDash. It gives you a real-time P&L by pulling in all your Shopify fees, syncing your Google and Meta ad spend, and letting you add custom expenses on top of that.
A couple things that set it apart: unlimited orders at a flat rate so you’re not paying more as you scale, and it locks in your historical product costs so if your COGS change your past margins stay accurate instead of getting recalculated.
Definitely worth trying out if you’re looking for something simple and accurate 
Depends on what level of analytics you need.
If you want LTV analysis, cohort reports, and predictive models: Lifetimely or TrueProfit are the established options. BeProfit is solid too with good custom reporting.
If you mainly just want to see your daily P&L with real COGS and ad spend baked in use ProfitLossDash
The things I’d look for in any profit app: does it pull TOTAL ad spend (not just attributed), does it track COGS per variant (not averaged), and does it timestamp costs so historical data stays accurate when costs change. Those three things are where most tools quietly get the numbers wrong.
Hey @Licommerce
Most of the profit tracking apps out there do a decent job, but most of them also charge $29-99/month which kind of defeats the purpose when you’re trying to protect your margins.
I’ve been using ClearProfit recently and it honestly surprised me. It pulls in your COGS, shipping, payment fees, and ad spend from Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snapchat automatically, then shows you your actual net profit in real time. The part I found most useful is seeing profit broken down per product and per variant, because you’d be surprised how many “best sellers” are actually bleeding money once you factor everything in.
The whole thing is free too, no order limits or paywalls. Setup took maybe 5 minutes.
Worth trying: ClearProfit – Profit Tracker - Shows real profit by combining all revenue and expenses | Shopify App Store
Best,
Moeed
We kept running into cases where an order looked profitable at first and then slowly wasn’t anymore once refunds and shipping got involved. After a while I stopped fully trusting the dashboard numbers and kept opening individual orders to sanity check them.
What ended up working for you here? I’ve tried a couple of profit apps and none get landed cost/duty right curious if you found one that does.
What are you finding that isn’t “right”? How is it you expect that landed cost is correct?
Further, because you tried those apps, I’m sure hoping you communicated with them to tell them your concerns and gave them an opportunity to explain why it is they calculate and cannot change or at least gave them the opportunity to change. Apps having that feedback is crucial.
Fair question. It’s less that the number is wrong and more whether it stays right. Does FyreTrail’s landed cost recalculate automatically if a duty rate or the FX rate moves after the PO’s already in, or is it locked in at whatever it was when it was entered?
Landed Cost only recalculates when the store changes various costs on a Purchase Order. If the store changes the PO it’s expected (by the store) that the landed cost should also change. I will say that we do not automatically track duty rates or FX rates within the app. Doing so would lead to the problems you’re calling out.
@vizuliiss that’s a sharp follow-up, and it’s worth separating two different failure modes people lump together as “landed cost is wrong.”
One is a bad formula (duty or freight allocated incorrectly). The other, which sounds like what you’re actually asking, is a stale formula: the number was right the day the PO was entered, but duty rates and FX rates move after that, and if nothing revisits the PO, your “landed cost” quietly drifts from reality. That staleness problem is bigger than most tools account for, especially with how often duty rates have been moving this year.
A few things worth checking in any landed-cost tool, regardless of which one you pick: does it store the duty rate and FX rate as separate inputs (not baked into one “cost” number) so you can tell why a number changed later; can you re-run the cost calc across already-received POs when a rate changes, or only on new ones going forward; and does it timestamp the inputs so historical margin reporting doesn’t silently rewrite itself.
Full disclosure: I work on Marginify, which tracks duty/FX as live inputs rather than locking them at PO entry, so a rate change flows through without re-keying the PO. Happy to walk through that if useful, but even if you go another direction, those three checks above are the ones I’d insist on.