Product Cost from API - Verify

[MeasuredInc]

Hi Shopify Team,

Could you please confirm if the API calls made below are correct for getting the Product Cost. While comparing the product cost extracted from the calls below to the "Cost" field in the Shopify UI, they are not aligning.

Please the urls of the calls made for getting cost currently

Call 1 - "/admin/api/2019-04/orders.json "   -  We get the product id and variant id from this call at line item level

Call 2 - "/admin/api/2019-04/products.json" –  We make this call using the productid. Then once we receive json object, we extract inventory id using variant id.

Call3 - " /admin/api/2019-04/inventory_items/{inventory_item_id}.json"  We make this call using the inventory item id, and extract cost.

Is there something wrong with this approach ?

[Visely-Team]

Hey there,

Why wouldn't you just get the cost you have at the line item level (you also have discounts and tax information)? Would you shed some light on what you are trying to achieve.

[Measured · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I am not able to see any "cost" present with lineItem's object. But, there is "price" present with lineItem. So, is this "price" same as the "cost" which we get from 

/admin/api/2019-04/inventory_items/#{inventory_item_id}.json

 Thanks.

[Philhutch]

This does not work as the cost price is a lot less then the price shown in line items.
If you look at cost price in the products csv export this is the price needed. Not all clients fill this in but this would be the price I would look for and the solution above about looking it up in the inventory seems the only way to do that?