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Add product costs

Margin simulation needs to know what your products cost. Store Steward picks a cost for each product from the first source that has one:

  1. WooCommerce native Cost of Goods Sold, when that feature is switched on in WooCommerce.
  2. The Store Steward cost field on the product’s General tab.
  3. Cost data from supported cost-of-goods plugins.
  4. Your default margin percentage (Settings, “Default margin when cost is unknown”; the default is 40).

To add costs in bulk, go to the Promotions tab, open Product costs and upload a CSV with the columns sku,cost or product_id,cost, or paste the CSV text. The screen shows how many in-stock products have a real cost.

Where a product uses the default margin, the simulation is only an estimate and is marked as one. Add real costs before you rely on a simulation to launch a campaign.

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