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COGSmith Ledger

Cost of goods. Mastered.

Profit reports, stock velocity, offline movement tracking, and channel mix intelligence. The reports WooCommerce never gave you.

Dashboard
Cogsmith Ledger dashboard stat tiles showing revenue, orders, AOV and items sold

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See it work

The problem

WooCommerce tells you revenue. It does not tell you profit. You can see that you sold a few hundred units last month. You cannot see whether those units made you money or lost it.

Without cost-of-goods tracking, your "best seller" might be your biggest margin leak. Most shopkeepers discover this the hard way — usually when they wonder why the bank balance doesn't match the WooCommerce dashboard.

Cogsmith Ledger fixes this by reading WooCommerce's own COGS fields and turning them into reports you can act on.

What it does

Profit reports per product

Revenue, cost, gross profit, and margin for every product — with SKU, category, and brand columns. Sort by any column. Filter by category or brand. Colour-coded margin pills flag losing products instantly. Margin distribution histogram shows where your margins sit.
Per-product profit table with margin percentages

Brand performance

Auto-detects WooCommerce 9.4+ core brands, Perfect Brands, or YITH. Per-brand revenue, margin, and share-of-revenue bars. Click any brand to drill into the products underneath. Empty state with install links if no brand plugin is active.
Brand performance table with revenue share bars

Stock velocity

Rolling 30-day sales velocity per product. Days-of-stock remaining with visual stockbars. Suggested reorder dates based on your configurable lead time. Filter by category or brand to focus on the products that matter. Urgent rows highlight in red when you're past lead time.
Stock velocity table with days-of-stock and reorder dates

Per-recipient email digests

HTML emails with plain-text alternative. Each recipient picks their own sections — warehouse staff get stock alerts, finance gets profit summaries, owners get the full picture. Daily and weekly schedules. SKU shown alongside every product name.
HTML email digest with revenue and stock sections

Exports in four formats

CSV, XLSX, PDF, and HTML. Every report, every format. Exports include SKU, category, and brand columns. Active filters carry through — export a filtered profit report and the file reflects exactly what you see on screen, with filter context in the header.
Branded PDF export with cog mark and data table

Stock alerts & thresholds

Immediate or daily alerts when stock drops below threshold. Global threshold with per-product overrides. Out-of-stock and low-stock tables with SKU, categories, and status pills. Exportable separately.
Stock alerts with low stock and out-of-stock tables

Offline movement detection

Two modes working together or independently. Manual stock counts let you walk the shelves and record what's actually there — the gap between WC expected and physical count is your estimated offline movement. Automatic detection hooks into WC stock changes and captures non-order-driven updates from Sage, QuickBooks, or any external sync. Both modes contribute to combined totals with a clear breakdown of where the signal comes from.
Reconciliation overview with offline movement tiles

Offline merchandising reports

See what's moving in the physical shops the same way you see what's moving online. Top offline products, categories by offline share, brands with online-versus-offline ratio. Sortable, filterable, exportable. Dashboard tiles show the channel mix at a glance — a dual-line chart comparing online revenue against offline movement value tells the story at a glance. All figures honestly labelled as estimated.
Brands offline report with online comparison

Free vs Pro

Feature Free Pro
Sales dashboard with sparklines & deltas ✓ ✓
Top products, categories, slow movers ✓ ✓
SKU column across all product reports ✓ ✓
Low stock & out-of-stock alerts ✓ ✓
Per-recipient digest configuration ✓ free sections ✓ all sections
Daily digest emails ✓ 4 sections ✓ 7 sections
Weekly digest emails ✓ 2 sections ✓ 4 sections
CSV, XLSX, PDF, HTML exports ✓ ✓
Per-product profit & margin reports ✗ ✓
Margin histogram & missing-cost warnings ✗ ✓
Stock velocity & reorder dates ✗ ✓
Brand performance & drill-down ✗ ✓
Category & brand filtering on reports ✗ ✓
Stock reconciliation (manual counts + CSV import) ✗ ✓
Automatic offline movement detection ✗ ✓
Offline merchandising reports & channel mix ✗ ✓
Email support ✗ ✓

Pricing

Free
€0 forever
  • Sales dashboard with sparklines & deltas
  • Top products, categories, slow movers
  • SKU columns across all reports
  • Low stock & out-of-stock alerts
  • Per-recipient daily digests (4 sections)
  • CSV, XLSX, PDF & HTML exports
Download Free Version

No license key required.

Recommended Pro
€99 /year
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Per-product profit & margin reports
  • Stock velocity & reorder forecasts
  • Brand performance & drill-down
  • Stock reconciliation & offline detection
  • Offline merchandising reports & channel mix
  • Weekly digests (all sections)
  • Email support
Buy Pro — €99/year

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Questions

Does it work with WooCommerce's built-in COGS field?

Yes. Cogsmith Ledger reads the _wc_cog_cost and _wc_cog_item_total_cost meta fields introduced in WooCommerce 10.3. If you're on an older version, you can set product-level costs manually.

What about multi-currency stores?

Cogsmith Ledger reports in your store's base currency. Multi-currency conversion happens at the WooCommerce layer before it reaches us. If WooCommerce records the order in your base currency, our reports are accurate.

Can different team members get different email reports?

Yes. Each recipient configures their own daily and weekly digest sections independently. Your warehouse manager gets stock alerts. Your accountant gets profit summaries. Nobody gets spammed with sections they don't need.

What's the difference between Free and Pro?

Free includes the dashboard, daily email digest, all four export formats, and stock alerts — for any sized WooCommerce store, indefinitely. Pro adds profit and margin reports, stock velocity and reorder dates, brand performance reports, weekly digests, and email support.

Will it slow down my site?

No. Cogsmith Ledger queries the database directly using optimised SQL on WooCommerce's HPOS tables, caches results in transients (5-minute TTL for reports, 30-minute for inventory), and never runs on the frontend. Your customers won't notice it exists.

What happens if I cancel?

Pro features disable. Your data stays. Recipients keep their configurations. If you resubscribe, everything picks up where you left off. No re-setup required.

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