Metrics library

Explore essential eCommerce and profit metrics. Click any metric to dive deeper.

Profitability

Margin and returns

What percentage of revenue remains after costs

Pentane Efficiency Score (PES)

PES is a special score that ranks overall efficiency across the business.

Variable Margin (Without Ad Spend)

The percent of variable costs except ads.

Variable Expenses (Without Ad Spend)

Variable costs, but not counting ad money.

Variable Margin

This is the percent of sales left after paying variable costs.

Variable Expenses

These are costs that go up when you sell more, like boxes for shipping.

Fixed Expenses

These are costs that your business pays no matter how much you sell, like rent for your office, payroll, health insurance, and legal fees. Note that "fixed" doesn't mean these numbers don't change, just that these expenses aren't sales related - they don't increase if your revenue increases, or decrease as revenue decreases.

B2B Revenue

Money from selling to other companies, which then resell your products to the end user or consumer.

D2C Revenue

Money from selling directly to people, typically online via eCommerce.

B2B Contribution Margin

The percent for business-to-business sales after variable costs.

Total Revenue

This is all the money your store makes from selling things.

B2B Contribution Profit

Like contribution profit, but for sales to other businesses.

D2C Contribution Margin

The percent for direct-to-customer sales, after their variable costs.

D2C Contribution Profit

Like total contribution profit, but just for sales straight to people.

Total Contribution Margin

This is the percent of sales left after variable costs, showing how much contributes to fixed costs and profit.

Total Contribution Profit

This is the money left after paying the costs that change when you sell more, like making or shipping products.

Net Profit

Net Profit is the money left over after you subtract all your costs from your sales.

Net Profit Margin

This is the percent of your sales money that's left as profit after all costs are paid.

Purchase Frequency (Monthly Only)

This is how many times, on average, a customer buys from you each month.

Customer Lifetime Value (Monthly Only)

This is the total money one customer will spend with you over time, but looked at each month.

Orders

Orders are the total number of times people buy things from your store.

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

CAC is how much money it costs you to get one new customer.

Conversion Rate (CVR)

CVR is the percent of people who visit your website and end up buying something.

Ad Spend

Ad Spend is the total amount of money you pay to show ads to people.

Average Order Value (AOV)

AOV is the average amount of money people spend when they buy something from you.

Marketing Efficiency Ratio (MER)

MER shows how much money you get back for every dollar you spend on ads and marketing. It's like checking if your ads are a good deal.

Advertising Cost of Sale

This is the part of your sales money that goes to paying for ads, shown as a percent.

D2C ROAS

D2C ROAS tells you how much money you make from selling straight to people (not stores) for every dollar spent on ads for those sales.

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