Cogsy vs Missing Cost Audit
The two overlap more than any other pair here: both find variants with no cost and both keep costs by date. Missing Cost Audit ranks the gaps by the revenue they distort, sends alerts and spreads freight and duty across a shipment on its top plan. Cogsy keeps a cost per supplier, lets you define your own cost kinds including percentages of price, and costs bundles from their parts.
Updated
Cost data and audit apps. Facts about Missing Cost Audit are from its Shopify App Store listing and its own help pages as they read on 8 October 2026. A feature marked "not mentioned" may still exist; we only record what the vendor states.
Feature by feature
| Capability | Cogsy | Missing Cost Audit |
|---|---|---|
| Finds variants with no cost | Yes | Yes |
| Costs with dates or a cost history | YesEvery cost has a date it applies from | Yes |
| A cost per supplier for one variant | YesYou choose which source is in use | Not mentioned |
| Extra costs on top of the unit cost | YesPer unit or as a percent of price | Yes |
| Costs bundles from their components | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Cost import by CSV | YesBy SKU, with a preview | Not mentioned |
| Bulk cost editing | PartlyBy CSV, or one cost for a product or the whole shop | YesOne cost for a whole product; supplier price lists on its Pro plan |
| Writes cost to Shopify's cost per item | YesWhen you run it; you choose what the figure includes | Yes |
| Low-margin flags or alerts | PartlyFlags in the app; no notifications | Not mentioned |
| Spreads freight and duty across a shipment | NoYou enter the per-unit amount | Yes |
| Purchase orders | No | Not mentioned |
| Inventory forecasting | No | Not mentioned |
| Profit by order | No | Not mentioned |
| Ad spend tracking | No | Not mentioned |
Choose Missing Cost Audit if
- You want missing costs ranked by how much revenue each one affects.
- You want an email when a cost goes missing or a product sells without one.
- You want freight, duty and fees spread across a shipment for you.
Choose Cogsy if
- You buy the same product from more than one supplier and want each price on record.
- You sell bundles and want their cost to follow their components.
- You want selling costs such as fulfilment and payment fees counted in the margin and kept out of Shopify's cost.
About Missing Cost Audit
Audits a Shopify catalogue for variants with no cost per item and ranks them by how much reported revenue they distort. Paid plans add in-app cost entry saved to Shopify, margin shown as a range, missing-cost alerts, supplier price list updates and landed cost.
- Listed as
- Missing Cost Audit
- Made by
- Kelbra Business Solutions LLC
- Price
- Free plan; paid plans at $29 and $79 a month
- Free trial
- No time-limited trial; the vendor help page says the free plan is the trial.
- App Store rating
- No reviews yet
- On the App Store since
- September 21, 2026
- Built for Shopify badge
- No
What Missing Cost Audit does that Cogsy does not
- Free audit with no SKU limit
- Ranks missing costs by the revenue they distort
- Shows margin as a range with verified/estimated/unknown cost quality per sale
- Auto-restores cleared costs and reports cost drift (who changed what)
- Supplier price list import compared against the previous list
- Landed cost by SKU over time
Missing Cost Audit is a trademark of its owner; Cogsy is not affiliated with it. If something here is out of date, write to support@cogsy.app and we will correct it.
Questions
- Is Cogsy an alternative to Missing Cost Audit?
- For keeping product costs right, yes: both work on the cost of each variant, in different ways. The table on this page shows where they differ.
- Can I use Cogsy and Missing Cost Audit together?
- They cover much of the same ground, so most stores would choose one. If you use both, decide which of them writes to Shopify's cost per item so they do not overwrite each other.
- How much does Missing Cost Audit cost?
- Free plan; paid plans at $29 and $79 a month, as shown on its Shopify App Store listing on 8 October 2026. Check the listing for current pricing.
- Does Missing Cost Audit keep a history of cost changes?
- Yes, in its own way. Missing Cost Audit's listing or help pages describe costs with dates or a cost history. Cogsy records every cost as a dated row with a source, and a row is never edited or deleted.
Sources
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Feature
Dated cost historyEvery cost has a date it applies from. A change is a new row, never an overwrite.
Feature
More than one supplierKeep a cost from each supplier, from Shopify and from your imports side by side, and choose which one is active.