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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

CapabilityCogsyMissing Cost Audit
Finds variants with no costYesYes
Costs with dates or a cost historyYesEvery cost has a date it applies fromYes
A cost per supplier for one variantYesYou choose which source is in useNot mentioned
Extra costs on top of the unit costYesPer unit or as a percent of priceYes
Costs bundles from their componentsYesNot mentioned
Cost import by CSVYesBy SKU, with a previewNot mentioned
Bulk cost editingPartlyBy CSV, or one cost for a product or the whole shopYesOne cost for a whole product; supplier price lists on its Pro plan
Writes cost to Shopify's cost per itemYesWhen you run it; you choose what the figure includesYes
Low-margin flags or alertsPartlyFlags in the app; no notificationsNot mentioned
Spreads freight and duty across a shipmentNoYou enter the per-unit amountYes
Purchase ordersNoNot mentioned
Inventory forecastingNoNot mentioned
Profit by orderNoNot mentioned
Ad spend trackingNoNot 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 history

    Every cost has a date it applies from. A change is a new row, never an overwrite.

  • Feature

    More than one supplier

    Keep a cost from each supplier, from Shopify and from your imports side by side, and choose which one is active.

Start with the costs Shopify already has.

Install the app, sync your catalog and see which variants are missing a cost.