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Managing your Margins and Costs across Sprintr

Explains how to use the Profit and Costs page to set your margin type, save margin presets, add reusable costs, and apply those settings across your products.

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Set your Margins and Costs

The Profit and Costs page is where you manage the margin and cost settings Sprintr uses across your store. You can choose which margin type Sprintr should use for analysis, create reusable margin presets, add reusable cost presets, and apply those settings across products.

What this page is for

Use this page to:

  • choose the margin type Sprintr should use for each store

  • create and manage target margin presets

  • add reusable product and selling costs

  • apply costs and margin presets across your listings

  • improve the accuracy of Profit and Pricing insights by giving Sprintr a fuller picture of your unit economics

This is an account-level settings page, not a per-product editing page. If you want to review the effect on an individual item, you’ll see that on the product’s Profit & Costs tab.

What you’ll see on the page

The page has three main sections:

  • Margin Presets

  • Optimisation Margin Type

  • Cost Presets

Margin Presets

Margin presets let you save target margin rules that can be reused across products. By default, AI optimised, which automatically sets a target margin for your product, is set. You can add as many manual margins as you wish and then allocate them across all listings or selected listings.

AI-powered margin presets

An AI-powered margin preset lets Sprintr set target margins dynamically rather than using one fixed percentage for every product.

You may see this shown with labels such as AI Optimized or Recommended.

Fixed margin presets

A fixed margin preset is a manual target percentage that you define yourself.

For example:

  • Store Default – 30%

  • Holiday Promo – 25%

  • Luxury Brand – 45%

What you can do

In this section, you can:

  • view your saved margin presets

  • create a new preset

  • apply a preset across products

  • apply a preset to selected listings, where available

Optimisation Margin Type

This section controls which margin type Sprintr uses for analysis and targets for each store. The selected margin type becomes the default used across profit cards, margin cards, AI analysis, and related pricing logic.

Sprintr supports two margin types:

Contribution Margin

This is based on revenue minus:

  • product costs

  • selling costs

Gross Margin

This is based on revenue minus:

  • product costs only

Important things to know

  • New stores default to Contribution Margin

  • Margin type is set at store level

  • In this version, there is no product-level override

  • If you have not added any selling costs, Contribution Margin and Gross Margin may show the same result until those costs are added

After changing a store’s margin type, click Apply to save. Changes are not saved automatically.

Cost Presets

Cost presets let you define reusable costs that Sprintr can use in profit and margin calculations. These can then be applied across relevant products instead of being added manually one by one.

Sprintr groups costs into:

  • Product Costs

  • Selling Costs

Within those groups, costs are organised into categories and individual cost items. Common examples include:

  • Packaging

  • Labour

  • Platform Fees

  • Marketing

  • Shipping

Add a new cost preset

To create a new cost item, enter:

  • Cost Name

  • Category

  • Cost Type

  • Amount

  • Amount type: currency or percentage

Then select Add to List.

A description field may also be available, depending on how the page is configured.

Currency and percentage costs

Each cost can be saved as either:

  • a fixed currency amount

  • a percentage value

This lets you model both flat costs and variable costs more accurately.

Editing and applying costs

Once a cost is saved, you can manage it from its category block. Depending on the setup, you may be able to update the amount, unit type, and other details inline. You can also apply saved costs across relevant products in the current store.

Link to store unit cost

If your connected store already contains a cost-of-item or unit cost value, Sprintr may show a notice letting you link that value for use in profit calculations.

When Link to store cost of item is turned on:

  • Sprintr uses the synced store cost-of-item as the product’s Unit Cost where available

When it is turned off:

  • Sprintr does not automatically use the synced store cost-of-item value in Unit Cost calculations

If your marketplace does not provide cost-of-item data, this notice may not appear.

Apply to All and Apply to Selected

Some sections on this page let you apply a margin preset or cost rule more broadly.

Apply to All

This applies the selected preset or cost rule to all relevant products in the current store.

Apply to Selected

This lets you apply a preset or cost rule to selected listings rather than the whole store, where available.

These actions affect the current store context, not every store in your account.

Using this page with multiple stores

The page is store-aware, so if you have more than one connected store, you can set the optimisation margin type separately for each store. Margin presets and cost presets can still be reused more broadly across your account.

Why this page matters

Your settings on this page shape the way Sprintr analyses profit and pricing.

For example, Sprintr uses these settings to understand:

  • which margin type to assess

  • what target margin to compare against

  • which product and selling costs should be included

  • how much room a product has for pricing changes before margin comes under pressure

That means changes you make here can affect what you see on both the Profit & Costs tab and the Pricing & Competitors tab.

In short

The Profit and Costs page is where you tell Sprintr how to think about profitability in your business.

Use it to:

  • choose your store’s margin type

  • save target margin presets

  • add reusable cost presets

  • apply those settings at scale

The more accurately this page reflects your real costs and margin goals, the more useful your profit and pricing insights will be.

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