Real profit tracking for print-on-demand stores

Per-SKU cost, not one catalog-wide guess

Upstream tracks product cost at the SKU level, so a $12 tote and a $34 hoodie from the same vendor don't get flattened into one average margin. That matters more in print-on-demand than almost any other model, since base cost, print cost, and vendor fulfillment fee all vary by product type and size in the same catalog.

Real fulfillment and shipping cost per order

Print-on-demand fulfillment cost isn't a flat number: it moves with vendor, product, and destination. Upstream computes real per-order cost from your Shopify order data instead of one estimate applied to every sale, so a margin number reflects what an order actually cost to fulfill.

A margin leak gets flagged before it compounds

When a print vendor raises a base cost or a discount code stacks on top of an already-thin margin, the Data Story Feed surfaces the specific SKU whose true contribution margin has gone negative, in plain English, rather than leaving it buried in a spreadsheet you'd have to build yourself to catch it.