Upload Amazon Product Expenses (COGS)

Add Amazon product expenses as a Source to make daily unit costs available in your database and profit analyses.

Adding an Amazon Product Expense as a Source will make daily unit expenses available on your managed database. It will also add product expense reporting to your profit and loss analyses.

Where Product Expenses Data Appears

Datasets: your product expenses (COGS) are surfaced in the following tables:

  • FINANCE.FINANCE_PROFIT: Aggregated daily COGS used for overall profit calculations.
  • FINANCE.FINANCE_PROFIT_LEDGER: COGS represented as transactional events:
    • Negative COGS (-COGS) when a sale occurs
    • Positive COGS (+COGS) when a return is processed
  • FINANCE.FINANCE_PROFIT_METRICS: Used to compute profit metrics such as:
    • Gross Profit
    • Operating Profit
    • Net Profit
  • FINANCE.FINANCE_COGS: Provides detailed daily COGS data per product/channel.
  • FINANCE.FINANCE_COGS_SKU: SKU-level breakdown of daily COGS for deeper product-level analysis.
  • FINANCE.FINANCE_PROFIT_LOSS (Deprecated): Previously used for profit/loss reporting. Superseded by the tables above.

In the Dashboards:

  • Templates:
    • Seller Finances and Supply Chain on Power BI: Product expenses data will be included in profit and loss reporting.
    • Analytics Essentials on Looker: Product expenses data will be included in profit and loss reporting.
  • Any custom dashboard built on top of the tables above

Uploading Product Expenses

Download the CSV template

Click on Download CSV template then click continue ->

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Fill in the template

Fill in the template with:

  • Account ID: Seller Central Account ID.
  • Marketplace: Domain name.
  • ASIN: Product identifier.
  • Start/End Date: Duration the cost applies. You can upload COGS data for dates up to 5 years in the past or 1 year in the future.
  • Product Cost: Per-unit cost of goods sold.
  • Currency: Currency for the cost.

Save in CSV UTF-8 format.

Date Format

To avoid issues while parsing the imported file, please choose the date format you used:

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Number Format

To avoid issues while parsing the imported file, please choose the number (decimal seperator) format you used:

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Once it is done, you can continue with Add Product Expenses button on the bottom right.

Upload

Drag and drop the CSV UTF-8 format file.

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Review and finish

Datahawk will make a first review of your document and point out all the errors it notices

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Review and correct any errors on your side.

Click Finish.

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The system always uses the most recent upload to calculate final product expenses.

To Edit Previously Uploaded Data:

  1. Re-upload the updated values for the affected products and date range.
  2. The system will automatically overwrite the old data with your new submission.
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Updates take up to 24 hours. You can upload COGS data for dates up to 5 years in the past or 1 year in the future.

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