How does the profit tracker work?
Type a sale as you make it: the date, the platform, the item, what the buyer paid and what the item and postage cost you. The tracker works out the platform’s fees with the same rules as our calculators, for the day of the sale, so a fee change is applied from its own date. Your profit is what the buyer paid, less the fees, the postage you paid and what the item cost you.
Where a platform sells the buyer the postage label (Poshmark, Vinted, StockX and GOAT), the postage is not your money, so the tracker leaves it out of your profit, as the calculators do.
What do the totals show?
Your sales, fees and profit for every month and every platform, and for each item. Items with the same name, in any mix of capital letters, are added together, so a line you sell again and again shows as one row. The best and worst items show where your profit really comes from, and where an item cost more than it made.
Why keep a list of unsold stock?
Money tied up in stock is money you cannot spend. Add what you buy, with its cost and the date, and the tracker counts the days each item has waited. When it sells, pick it from “From your stock” in the sale form: its name and cost fill in, and it leaves your stock.
Where is my log kept?
Only in this browser. With “keep my log on this device” switched off, the log lasts until you close the page. Switched on, it is saved in your browser’s own storage (IndexedDB) on this device. We never see it, and nothing is sent to us. To use the log on another device, download a backup file here and restore it there. Read more in our privacy policy.
How do I import sales from a CSV file?
The quickest way is our template: one row per sale with the date, platform, item, sale price, postage charged, item cost and postage cost. Any other CSV works too, such as a marketplace’s sales report: choose the file, check which of its columns holds each figure, and import. Dates are read month first in the US and day first in the UK; amounts can include $ or £ signs and commas.
What do the tax-time totals add up?
For the period you choose, the US Schedule C style totals are gross receipts (what buyers paid you, not sales tax), fees, shipping and the cost of goods sold. The UK self-employment style totals are turnover and expenses (fees, postage and the cost of the items you sold). They are sums of your own log, nothing more: they are not tax advice, and they leave out costs the tracker does not know, such as packaging or mileage.
Want the fees on one sale before you list? Use the seller fee calculator to compare every platform side by side.