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Cost & Margin Pricing for WooCommerce
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Supplier, rule, costs and your first price run.
How the calculation chain works
Real cost, calculation cost and why COGS never contains buffers.
Margin vs markup
Two constantly confused concepts — and the difference is money.
VAT and rounding
Tax classes, compound taxes and psychological price endings.
The import guide
Columns, matching order, saved mappings and the golden rule blank = unchanged.
The master list and the Excel round trip (Pro)
One file for your whole catalogue — export, edit in Excel, import back.
The sale model
Rules decide the discount, the flag decides which, Woo dates decide when — and you always win.
The write guards — locks, drift, thresholds and undo
Five mechanisms that ensure the plugin can never break anything.
Exchange rates
Sources, manual rates, the FX buffer and the sanity threshold.
Rule resolution and per-product overrides (Pro)
Most specific wins: product → category → supplier → global.
Troubleshooting: "Why didn't the price change?"
The eight most common causes — and where to find the answer.
The price change log, margin health and Omnibus
Every price change is logged, loss-making sales are flagged — and the data powers upcoming price analytics.
License and Pro activation
Activate the license key, move it between sites and what happens if it lapses.