Is Cogsy an alternative to Profit Calc?

No. Profit Calc is a profit analytics app and Cogsy has no profit dashboard, ad spend or order reports. Cogsy manages the product cost that a profit app starts from, so the two are used together more often than one replaces the other.

How much does Profit Calc cost?

From $39 a month, as shown on its Shopify App Store listing on 8 October 2026. Check the listing for current pricing.

Does Profit Calc keep a history of cost changes?

Yes, in its own way. Profit Calc'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.

Cogsy vs Profit Calc

Profit Calc is a profit calculator with detailed cost rules: costs by country, by quantity and by date, vendor fees on top, and an alert for products whose cost is zero. It can store the cost used on each order so later changes apply only to new orders. Cogsy does not calculate profit on orders. It keeps the cost record and writes it to Shopify.

Updated 8 October 2026

Profit analytics apps. Facts about Profit Calc 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	Profit Calc
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	YesDocumented as a per-order cost upload
Bulk cost editing	PartlyBy CSV, or one cost for a product or the whole shop	Yes
Writes cost to Shopify's cost per item	YesWhen you run it; you choose what the figure includes	Not mentioned
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	Not mentioned
Purchase orders	No	Not mentioned
Inventory forecasting	No	Not mentioned
Profit by order	No	Yes
Ad spend tracking	No	Yes

Choose Profit Calc if

You want profit by order, product and store with ad spend included.
Your cost depends on the delivery country or the quantity ordered.
You use AliExpress, Printful, Printify or similar and want costs from them.
You need VAT, COD or multi-currency handling.

Choose Cogsy if

You want the cost fixed in Shopify itself, with a history.
You buy from several suppliers and want each price recorded.
You sell bundles made of different products.

Using both

Profit Calc reads the cost per item held in Shopify. Keep that figure right with Cogsy, with the costs you choose rolled into it, and Profit Calc reports profit on a number you can trace. Profit Calc's automatic cost sync from Shopify has to be switched on, and it overrides costs saved in Profit Calc.

About Profit Calc

A profit calculator app that combines orders, product costs, shipping, taxes, fees and ad spend into profit dashboards and reports by order, product or store. It syncs ad spend from the major ad platforms and supports VAT, COD and multiple currencies.

Listed as: Profit Calc: Profit Calculator
Made by: Profit Calc
Price: From $39 a month
Free trial: 15-day free trial (shown on every plan)
App Store rating: 5.0 from 67 reviews
On the App Store since: December 16, 2019
Built for Shopify badge: No

How Profit Calc handles product cost

Product costs are entered per variant on a Manual COGS page, and Shopify's cost per item can be synced in manually or automatically every 24 hours; the automatic cost sync must be switched on because it overrides saved Manual COGS. Costs can also be set by country and quantity (quantity breaks, which the vendor also recommends for 'bundles'), and by date through a 'COGS by Date' option. A 'Database COGS Sync' setting stores the COGS calculated for each order so later cost changes only apply to new orders. The help center refers to an alert for products whose COGS are 0 and an option to recalculate orders saved with a COGS of 0. A CSV upload sets COGS per order (columns 'Order' and 'Total'), and a CSV template of product costs can be downloaded from the manual COGS CSV page.

What Profit Calc does that Cogsy does not

Profit dashboards and P&L with ad spend from seven ad platforms
COGS rules by shipping country and order quantity
Supplier/fulfilment integrations (AliExpress, Printful, Printify, CJ Dropshipping, ShipHero, ShipBob, Shippo, Gelato)
Multi-currency conversion with historical FX rates
VAT and COD handling
Order-level and product-level profit reports

Profit Calc 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 Profit Calc?: No. Profit Calc is a profit analytics app and Cogsy has no profit dashboard, ad spend or order reports. Cogsy manages the product cost that a profit app starts from, so the two are used together more often than one replaces the other.
Can I use Cogsy and Profit Calc together?: Profit Calc reads the cost per item held in Shopify. Keep that figure right with Cogsy, with the costs you choose rolled into it, and Profit Calc reports profit on a number you can trace. Profit Calc's automatic cost sync from Shopify has to be switched on, and it overrides costs saved in Profit Calc.
How much does Profit Calc cost?: From $39 a month, as shown on its Shopify App Store listing on 8 October 2026. Check the listing for current pricing.
Does Profit Calc keep a history of cost changes?: Yes, in its own way. Profit Calc'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.

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Feature
Write the right cost to Shopify
Mark which costs are part of Shopify's cost per item. Cogsy writes that one number back and keeps the rest beside it.
Feature
Costs on top of the unit cost
Packaging, fulfilment or duties per unit, or fees as a percentage of the price, for a variant, a product or the whole shop.