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What do you really keep per order?

Eight numbers you already know. After that you know what your margin is, how much every ad euro has to bring in, and the most you can pay for a new customer.

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Including VAT, as it appears in your Shopify
€
In that same month
What the product costs you, as a percentage of the selling price
%
Per order, on average
€
What percentage comes back? Fashion is often 15–30%
%
In Belgium and the Netherlands usually 21%
%
All of it together: Meta, Google, the rest
€
Shopify records this on every order itself. Don't know it? Leave it as it is
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What you keep per order

€0

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is what every ad euro has to bring in before you break even — revenue including VAT, as you see it in Shopify
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is what you get per ad euro now, on the same basis
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is what you keep on every extra euro you spend on ads
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is the most you can spend per month before you hit zero
What I would do
    And what does a new customer cost?
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    is what a new customer costs you on average
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    is the most one can cost before you stop earning on it

    Note: this is your entire ad spend divided by every new customer — including the ones who came in by word of mouth or through your shop. That is deliberate. The number Meta or Google gives you only counts the customers they claim, and that is always too many or too few. You don't know which of the two without counting.

    Important

    This is only right if your numbers are right.

    This calculation is based on what you fill in. But check first whether your numbers are complete. At the brand where I ran this day to day, orders came in across two stores — alongside the new store, an older environment without a pixel kept selling. An ad account reports attributed conversions; your backend records orders. Those are different questions.

    If part of your revenue shows up as ‘direct’ or ‘unknown’, the number above is either too low or too high — and you don't know which of the two.

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