Money

The numbers underneath the storefront: revenue against profit, what a sale really costs once everything is counted, and the one input most stores never connect.

2 articles in this topic.

Cover: what a dropshipped sale leaves at the bottom of the receipt

MoneyAugust 26, 2026

Is Dropshipping Profitable? The Math on One Real Product

A $29.99 dropshipped sale looks like seventeen dollars of profit and leaves about four. We walk one real product through every cost — supplier price, freight, marketplace fees, returns — and show where the money actually goes.

Cover: Profit — unknown. No cost data linked to these products.

MoneyAugust 13, 2026

Landed Cost: Why Your Store Knows Its Revenue but Not Its Profit

Landed cost is what a unit actually costs you delivered, not the supplier's headline price. It's the one input most stores never connect — and without it margin can't be computed.