Amazon Sellers

You Know Last Month's Revenue. Do You Know What Was Left?

Amazon is very good at telling you what you sold and quite bad at telling you what you kept

Most sellers we talk to can quote their monthly revenue from memory and go quiet when asked about contribution margin. That is not carelessness — it is that the number lives across four reports, none of which know your landed cost. Meanwhile the gap between those two figures is filled with ad spend on terms that never convert, storage surcharges on last season's units, and a listing that has been suppressed for three weeks.

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Common Challenges for Amazon Sellers

✗Revenue is growing and the bank balance is not, and nobody can point at why

✗Advertising spend rising every month because ACOS looks acceptable in isolation

✗Fee changes on a product whose price has not moved since it launched

✗Long-term storage surcharges on inventory that should have been liquidated two quarters ago

✗Stranded and suppressed listings costing storage while selling nothing

✗Buy Box lost to a reseller, so your ad clicks arrive and buy from somebody else

✗Returns quietly moving a SKU under water without ever triggering an alert

✗Reimbursements for lost and never-received inbound units never claimed

✗Stock-outs on the best SKU, which cost the sales and then cost the rank

Where a dollar of Amazon revenue actually goes

None of these lines is dramatic on its own. That is precisely why they survive.

1Customer pays
2Referral fee comes out
3FBA fulfillment fee comes out
4Storage — and the aged-inventory surcharge if it has sat
5Advertising, including the spend on terms that never converted
Ad spend is usually the largest single leak because it is the only cost that grows automatically while nobody is looking at it.
6Refunds and returns processing
7Your landed product cost — the one number Amazon does not know
8What is left, which almost nobody is calculating monthly

How to check this yourself before you talk to anyone

You do not need us to find out whether you have a problem. Take one month, one settlement report, and your own landed cost, and do this at SKU level rather than in aggregate — the aggregate almost always hides a couple of SKUs funding the rest.

→Take net revenue after promotional rebates, not gross sales.
→Subtract referral, FBA fulfillment and storage fees. All three are in the settlement data.
→Subtract advertising, refunds and returns. Then subtract your landed cost per unit sold.
→Do it per SKU. If two SKUs are carrying the account and four are quietly losing money, that is a completely different problem from a general margin squeeze.
→Then pull your search-term report and total the spend on terms with no conversions in sixty days. That figure is usually the fastest thing to fix.

Systems We Build for Amazon Sellers

Amazon Profit Watch

Fees, ad waste, aged inventory, suppressions, returns and reimbursements found and ranked by cost — then an owner-level monthly view of money in, money out, money left.

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Amazon PPC Management

Sponsored Products, Brands and Display managed against your real break-even rather than a borrowed ACOS target, with weekly search-term harvesting.

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Amazon Brand & Listings

Listing SEO, A+ Content, Brand Store, catalog and account health — the account the ads run inside, which decides whether the traffic converts.

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AI Search Visibility

Buyers increasingly ask an assistant which product or brand to choose before they ever open Amazon. We measure whether you are in that answer.

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AI Business Automation

Customer messages, order questions and the repetitive Seller Central handling, drafted and routed automatically with a human on anything unusual.

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Complete Commerce

Amazon, Shopify and Google run by one team, for brands tired of three vendors each blaming the other two.

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What You Get

A ranked list of what is costing you the most, with the arithmetic shown so you can check it

Every reported figure tagged as known data or estimate — never a plausible number presented as fact

Advertising managed against your actual margin, not a generic ACOS target

TACOS reported alongside ACOS, so you can see whether ads are lifting organic rank or just buying sales

Aged and stranded inventory surfaced with the units named while there is still time to act

Reimbursement cases identified and prepared for your approval

Listings and Buy Box monitored so a suppression is caught in days rather than weeks

One monthly view an owner can read without opening Seller Central

Questions Amazon Sellers Ask Us

Where should I start — profit audit or PPC management?

If your ads are unmanaged or obviously wasteful, PPC management pays for itself faster and is the more direct fix. If ads look roughly sane and the margin still is not there, start with the profit audit — the leak is somewhere else and more ad work will not find it. If you genuinely do not know which, that is what the free growth audit is for.

Will you tell me how much I will save?

Not before we have seen the account. Anyone quoting you a recovery percentage from a sales call is guessing, and if they are wrong you will be the one who finds out. What we will do is show you each leak with the data behind it and label which figures are measured and which are estimated.

What do you need access to?

Reporting access to Seller Central and the advertising account. That covers fees, spend, inventory, returns and listing status. The one thing Amazon does not know is your landed product cost — give us that and contribution margin becomes a real number rather than an estimate.

I already have a PPC agency. Is Profit Watch still worth it?

Often yes, and this is worth saying plainly: a competent PPC agency is running the ad account, not your P&L. Storage surcharges, unclaimed reimbursements, a suppressed listing and a lost Buy Box are all outside their remit and all cost real money. If your existing agency is good, the audit will say so.

Do you do product sourcing or private-label product selection?

No. We work with brands that already make or own a product. If you are looking for someone to pick a product for you to sell, we are not it.

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