Track Profitability and Manage Product Costs

The Autron AI Agent can calculate your real profit margins — but it needs to know your costs first. Once you've entered your cost of goods, the agent can give you a complete picture of your product economics, including Amazon fees, ad spend, and net profit.

Why set up product costs?

Without cost data, the agent can tell you your revenue, ad spend, and efficiency metrics — but it can't tell you whether you're actually making money.

Once costs are set up, you unlock:

• Profit per product — see which products are truly profitable after all costs
• Profit waterfall — Sales → Cost of goods → Amazon fees → Ad spend → Profit, in one breakdown
• Per-unit economics — selling price, fees, costs, and margin on a per-unit basis
• Maximize Profit goals — the agent can optimize your advertising for profitability rather than just sales volume

What costs can you set?

For each product, you can provide three cost components (all per unit):

Setting costs through the agent

You can set or update costs for individual products through conversation:

• "Set the COGS for my garlic press to $3.20"
• "Update shipping cost for my knee sleeves to $1.50 per unit"
• "Set costs for B07ABC1234: COGS $4.00, shipping $1.20, misc $0.30"

Updating many products at once with a CSV

For bulk updates, the agent can give you a CSV template. Make a copy, fill in your costs, and upload the CSV directly into the chat (using the attachment button) — the agent looks up each ASIN, applies the costs row by row, and gives you a summary when it's done. No need to leave the conversation.

Viewing profitability

Once costs are in place, ask about profitability:

• "What's my profit margin on each product?"
• "Show me the profit breakdown for my garlic press"
• "Which products are the most profitable?"
• "Am I making money after ad spend and Amazon fees?"

The agent will show you a waterfall that includes:

• Sales (selling price × units sold)
• Cost of goods
• Amazon fees (referral fee, FBA fees, etc.)
• Ad spend
• Net profit and profit margin

Plus a per‑unit economics view so you can see what each individual sale contributes after every cost.

Using profitability data with goals

Once your costs are set up, you can use the Maximize Profit goal objective. Instead of targeting an ACoS or TACoS percentage, Autron will automatically optimize your bids to maximize actual profit margin.

• "Switch my garlic press to maximize profit"
• "Set all my products to maximize profit"

This is especially useful for products where your margins are tight and you need every unit sold to be profitable.

Keep or export the answer

• Pin it. Ask the agent to pin the profitability chart and it sits on your home page, refreshing on its own.
• Export it. Ask for the rows as a CSV and it hands you a download link.