Finance in Storix: expenses, COGS and the P&L
The Finance screens explained: logging expenses by category, setting cost price per variant for COGS, and reading the P&L, costs and budgets like an operator.
Compliance and scale
Order revenue is a vanity number until you subtract what the products cost, what the courier charged and what the ads ate. The Finance area in Storix — from the top navigation, the Accounting section («المالية ← المحاسبة») — exists to do that subtraction for you continuously instead of in a panicked spreadsheet at tax time.
The area is organised into a handful of focused screens. P&L is the income statement: revenue decomposed into its sources, gross margin, and an estimated net profit line. Expenses is where you log the money leaving the business — rent, packaging, photo shoots — each categorised, because a category-less expense list is just a diary. Costs & fees tracks what operational services cost you, including carrier costs. Budgets lets you cap and watch category spending, and the reports tab includes VAT alongside the other statements.
COGS starts in the product editor
Cost of goods sold is only as good as the cost price you type per variant in the product editor. Storix multiplies that cost by units sold to build the gross margin line, and the finance overview flags partial COGS indicators where products are missing their cost — those flags are your to-do list, because a product without a cost price silently inflates your margin. Make cost price a required field of your catalog workflow, not an optional extra.
Read the P&L like an operator
The profit and loss screen breaks income into its components and margin into its layers, ending at an estimated net profit. Use it monthly: compare gross margin percentage across months to catch supplier price creep, and net profit against marketing spend to see whether growth is being bought or earned. The plan-gated breakdown layers give finer detail as your subscription allows.
A monthly routine that takes thirty minutes
First working day of the month: sweep last month's receipts into Expenses with categories, fix any partial-COGS flags, then read the P&L top to bottom once. That is the whole ceremony — and because the data accrues live, the thirty minutes are reading, not data entry.
Related lessons: VAT invoice basics for the tax side, and COD payout reconciliation for courier cash that has not reached the P&L yet.