Marginhaul
A commerce margin workspace that versions cost bases, cites source transactions, exposes allocation assumptions and lets finance owners approve contribution views.
Independent online stores can see orders and revenue while product cost, shipping, payment fees, advertising spend and returns live in separate systems. Joining them can produce a useful contribution view, but “true profit” overstates what transaction data can establish. Inventory accounting, overhead, tax, timing and attribution policies remain outside a simple dashboard.
Marginhaul imports authorized orders, refunds, fees, shipment charges, product cost versions and advertising observations. It preserves source, currency, timestamp and order or product mapping, then calculates a versioned contribution-margin view with visible formulas. Missing costs and ambiguous allocations stay unresolved instead of defaulting to zero.
Advertising spend can be allocated by a customer-approved method, but association does not prove which campaign caused an order. Shipping labels or estimates are not the same as final carrier charges. Refund requests, issued refunds and settled funds remain distinct.
The product helps operators understand provisional unit economics. It does not produce audited financials, determine tax, value inventory, recognize revenue or guarantee that a product actually made money.
Commerce operator, finance lead or agency analyst managing an independent online store with fragmented cost and marketing data
The record supports current platform scale and competitor gaps rather than a deadline.
Platform-focused incumbents may avoid the self-hosted long tail, though cross-platform products can expand.
The supplied record has two cross-references and one inbound connection.
The supplied research confirms a large independent-store ecosystem and a reported gap for product-level contribution analysis on the target platform.
The buyer quartet is incomplete, a cross-platform competitor exists, cost and advertising allocations are subjective, and contribution margin is not true profit.
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