End the Guesswork in FBM Profitability With Business Analytics
Calculating shipping costs to countries without a dedicated Amazon marketplace – like Austria or Switzerland – has long been a guessing game for FBM sellers. Without precise tracking, it’s time-consuming to determine costs per order, making accurate profitability calculations unnecessarily complicated. And while Amazon offers some tools, they’re vague and lack the level of detail sellers truly need.
SELLERLOGIC Business Analytics ends this guesswork.
With our latest import update, you can now log the exact shipping cost for every FBM order, giving you a complete and reliable profitability picture — even for destinations without a dedicated marketplace.
The update also solves another major challenge: fluctuating costs caused by different packaging needs. FBM shipments may go out as single parcels or bundled together, which makes per-item costs vary and forces constant recalculation. With our new type of import aimed at FBM shipping costs, you can assign costs to each item within an order, ensuring accurate profitability regardless of shipment structure.
Track Costs with Pinpoint Accuracy
You can now import costs with full precision – for every product, order, and marketplace. On the Import product settings page, in addition to the existing Product costs, you can choose between:
Both import types are also available in the automatic import feature on the Auto import product settings page.
Seller Scenario: How Product, Order, and Item Costs Work Together
Imagine you ship an FBM order with two board games to Switzerland.
With the update, you now have three different ways to record the FBM shipping costs for this order — only one method may be used per order. This way, you can choose the logging method that best fits your workflow, ensuring accurate and transparent profitability calculations for every FBM shipment.
Here’s how the costs break down in this example:
1) Product Costs Level (applies to the product in general)
2) Order Costs (applies to the entire order)
3) Order Item Costs (applies to each product in the order)
Your Immediate Benefits
True Insights
Get profitability reports based on real margins, not estimates. By being able to log exact FBM shipping costs, you gain accurate insights for smarter pricing, ads, and restocking decisions.
No More Margin Mysteries
FBM shipping often made profitability unclear due to varying destinations and packaging. With our new import types, you can log both order-level and item-level shipping costs — for a complete and precise margin view.
Set It And Forget It
Save time with Auto Import. Pull cost files from external sources via URL (even password-protected) and schedule updates as often as you need.
Automate Your FBM Cost Tracking
If you regularly ship FBM orders to countries without a dedicated marketplace, keeping your cost data accurate quickly becomes a chore that takes up an unnecessary amount of your time. Use Auto import product settings in SELLERLOGIC Business Analytics to set up a scheduled import that updates your Product costs, Order costs, and Order item costs automatically from an external file. This way, your recurring shipping rates get logged without manual entry — giving you real, up-to-date margin insights every day. See the full setup guide here.
Final Thoughts
SELLERLOGIC provides you with the full financial picture — right down to the cent. Whether it’s logging the exact shipping cost of an order or breaking it down to the item level, you now have the functionalities within Business Analytics to eliminate guesswork and see your true margins every time. Many of our users asked for this, and we listened. Just as Amazon is known for its customer-centric approach, we’ve made customer focus and value creation our guiding principles as well. This only works with your valuable feedback. So let us know if you have any questions or thoughts, we’re always happy to hear from you.
